Photography Question

[cgmblade]

OP, if you have XP, the above is a tiny program that works quite rapidly. Another option would be to cut down on your initial picture quality so that it doesn't require so much resizing/compression to fit on BF.

Thanks, I'll try Windows Image Resizer. I'm also playing around w/ dif. image sizes.

Just for comparison here's a shot taken in the 3M setting on my camera, which produces an original size of 2048x1536. I didn't touch the pic and uploaded it to Photobucket in the original size. Photobucket did the resizing since I have it set to a max size for pics. Obviously that doesn't work if you want them small enough to attach on BF but I seldom post pics that way.

As you can see it was in the shadows too.

That's a nice picture. In my continuing experiments I'll try letting photobucket resize them and see how that works, thanks.

Try to keep your subject either completely in direct sunlight, with the sun behind you (optimally at about 45 degrees to your backside), or keep the entire subject in the shade, as BlackHills did with his photo. Cameras can't really handle the range of light from sun on snow to black grips in shadows. It's just too much dynamic range for a photo.

Gotcha, thanks.

 

[cgmblade]

Just for comparison here's a shot taken in the 3M setting on my camera, which produces an original size of 2048x1536. I didn't touch the pic and uploaded it to Photobucket in the original size. Photobucket did the resizing since I have it set to a max size for pics. Obviously that doesn't work if you want them small enough to attach on BF but I seldom post pics that way.

As you can see it was in the shadows too.

I just looked at your picture again. The detail of the stump is amazing. In places it's like I'm looking down on the Grand Canyon.:thumbup:

 

[mqqn]

Hi cgmblade -

When you save them as a jpg there is compression loss -

So - resize the picture down to whatever size (800 x whatever etc. ) and then file,save as - then click the options button on that menu and choose the compression percent - you can go up to around 30 percent without too much degradation - experiment a little and you will eliminate the pixelation that you are seeing.

best regards -

mqqn

 

[BlackHills]

That's a nice picture. In my continuing experiments I'll try letting photobucket resize them and see how that works, thanks

Thanks. Like I said earlier, I used to resize them to what I wanted and then upload them and I really noticed a difference in the quality once they were on Photobucket. PB must compress them and that is what caused the difference, so now I upload larger pics than I want and they come out looking a lot better.