Thread: Any keen photographers?

Love that B&W set Dion, i'd love to expend some film on some derelict buildings. I did some work for the family engineering company a while back in an old site that had been used by the engineering and foundary for about 100 years, but alas it's a car yard now, pity I wasn't into photography then [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad.gif[/img]

I'd love a nice digital camera, would save me heaps in film and allow me to do some more, but I can;t afford one ...... yet

Nice pictures DionM, but could I make a couple of suggestions for the benefit of those, like me, who are on the dial-up connections.

First set your picture size to say 600 pixels wide, this will put your picture in the forum column and most people will not need to scroll side wards to see the whole picture.

Use a program that allows you to do something like “Save To Web” ,
this will dramatically reduce the down load time but will have very little effect on the quality of the picture.

Cheers

Originally posted by drivesafe
Nice pictures DionM, but could I make a couple of suggestions for the benefit of those, like me, who are on the dial-up connections.

First set your picture size to say 600 pixels wide, this will put your picture in the forum column and most people will not need to scroll side wards to see the whole picture.

Use a program that allows you to do something like “Save To Web” ,
this will dramatically reduce the down load time but will have very little effect on the quality of the picture.

Cheers

Yeah sorry drivesafe, I tend to forget about dial-up.

Those shots are set to 700p max width/height. I do compress them to 80% JPEG quality, which is about the trade-off point with quality. Probably the number of images is what choked your dial-up, rather than the size (each is approx 100-150kb, I think).

Hi DionM, the same pictures can be reduced to about 40 or 50k and not look any different

Cheers

Mate I love photography and would LOVE a new camera but will stay with my old Minolta Dynax film SLR until it dies (not too far away I think 8O ) and then get a Canon 350D when I can afford it.

How can you afford a 20D when you own Land Rovers :?:

Someone is obviously paying you too much :!: [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif[/img] [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img]

Hi again DionM, have a look at the bottom picture on the G Gauge section where you were before. Thats the pic of the 2 steamers at the platform. That picture is just 28k.

If you have Photoshop Elements, there is a “Save To Web” command that reduces the file size. That picture was originally around 3mb.

Cheers.

Originally posted by VladTepes

Someone is obviously paying you too much :!: [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif[/img] [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/laugh.gif[/img]

Heh. I'm an engineer. We never get paid enough, let alone overpaid :wink:

I don't mind taking the odd photo. Park of what I like about 4wd'ing, you can get photo's of places that a lot of other people will never see.

At the moment I have an old Minolta dImage 7i - digital but a couple of years old now.

I haven't really had the time to spend a great deal learning about how to take photo's, but I've had a few pointers. Such as take them in RAW format (or your camera's equivalent if it is digital) and then edit them using software. I use the Adobe Photoshop Elements as it seems to be best in the marketplace at the moment (and well actually it came with the camera ;-) ).

Here are a few of what I see as the better photo's taken (out of the hundreds) whilst I've been in Switzerland:

Xmas 2004 - my wife calls these flowers "Father Xmas's":


I call this one the home of the Fairies. It's just a light underneath a bush, however with all the snow etc. on top I thought it looked cool:


A couple of weeks ago my wife and I went on a very very VERY short holiday to Croatia (it's actually quite the tourist spot - nice weather, lovely water, beaches). We were surprised at their "beaches", I'd never seen the like before:


Lastly, and probably the photo I am the most proud of, is a view from our balcony here in Switzerland. Don't get me wrong not everyone has views like this! Most people live in apartments in the city and their view consists of the next apartment block, however we live outside the city because we needed somewhere for our doggies and this is the type of view you can get on a clear (if overcast) day - and yes I may have tweaked the colours a little but it's still magnificent:


I made sure to use the "Save to Web" and resized them to no bigger than 600pixels wide functions in Adobe Photoshop Elements for all those pictures, and not one of them is over 60k (average is 45k I think) so I hope I haven't upset anyone on dialup.

DionW those pictures are beautiful, I wish I had half the eye that you did.