Nature Photography

[Pat]

JHB, Thanks for your kind words, not everyone apreciated the textures and composition but I like it. Good to have a photo record as I will be removing 2/3 or more of the dead stuff. The winter bridge scene was taken with my wife's Kodak 4800 digital snapshot camera. I have been too busy lately to do anything with my REGULAR cameras. I have some Olympus OM-1 manual 35mm SLRs and an OM-2 that are the staples of my astrophotography and even nature stuff. I have everything from fisheye wide angle to 8 inch reflector telescope(2000mm tele) that I use with the OM B U T lately (last year), I bought my wife a coma camera (so automated you can run it while in a coma), a Nikon SLR and a decent zoom lense 35-200 (approx)
B U T she doesn't use it anymore now that I got her a digital. She could care less about all the finer points of being able to choose metering variations, and override of the automation for artistic control and so forth. She likes to point, zoom, and shoot the digital and get fair results most of the time A N D not have to go through the film development hassle.

Later when the price/performance point drops sufficiently I will probably get an interchangeable lens digital SLR. Meanwhile I borrow her Kodak.

I'm sure there are lots of nice things about the floppy disk storage for your camera but I didn't want to have any more moving parts than neccessary so went with compact flash mem. With 3 each 128Meg cards you can get oodles (hundreds) of high res pix and the camera is recognized by Windows as a drive (read only) so downloading pix is trivial and pretty fast.

Good clicking to you,

Pat

[cjtinkle]

Hi All, I'm new to the forum. Just bought a Canon EOS 10D myself, had it about a week and love it! It's rained mostly since I've had it, so haven't really had a chance to play with it outside.
I love nature photography, and both hubby and myself enjoy macro photography.

[cats]

Can anyone tell me how to post a picture that is over 150k?

[egon]

Possibly crop and resize it. 640 x 480 pixcels seems to work.

Egon

[Gatorboy]

Do you have Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro? Save the image using more compression. It will reduce the filesize without shrinking the image dimensions. Digital Photos for use on websites do not need the high dpi number that is needed for printing photos.

[GaryM]

Well, you can't post one that big.

But as Gaterboy says, you can resize it or use more JPG compression to make the file smaller. JPG compression of 30% will make a reasonable small file with little decrease in picture quality.

Another good program to resize and/or change compression is irfanView. It's a free download.

[Pat]

It isn't the most convenient method but you can chop a large high res picture into smaller pieces and post the pieces. Then the recipient reassembles the original from the pieces using any of several applications. A good one for free as already mentioned above is IrfanView available free from IrfanView.com Irfan Skiljan is one technosavy dude and has done us a great service.

In IrfanView simply click on the drop down menu bar selection "Image" and then select "Create Panorama Image" which lets you join images from vertical or horizontal components.

All compression methods used to seriously reduce file size "LOSE" quality. For most purposes on this forum, 150K is enough. It isn't likely anyone will want to make a poster size from a posted picture and if they insist you can negotiate regarding sending the full res file to them by other means such as email or...

Although the technology to put the pieces toghther again is readily available this is not likely a good choice of forums for this activity.

Post some pix of 150K or less and see how many demands there are for higher resolution. A small dose of reality is far more important than any speculation.

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[Tollie]

Kilt, I am an avid outdoor photographer, serious amateur and build my portfolio. My hope is to one day do a book or submit to a stock agency. I have yet to submit any pic to a magizine, but have sold some locally. The bast site I have found to help in you endever is Photosig.com. You'll have to register, but once there they have more traffic than any site, and people critique your pictues, in turn they eran points next to their name. In turn you earn points based on the critique rating and how many people critique your photos. Its very helpful as strangers as more apt to be less bias than say...your wife, mom, uncle,and neighbors. You'll learn allot, and people fromall over the globe will see your art. They also have a place where you store your pics, your onw online portfolio. Its free but the free membership limits how many you can submit in a certian amount of time, if you pay you can post more. Good luck, when there look for tjperry, its my portfolio.