The dark side of Charmaine...

I thought I would post some pictures of my girlfriend Charmaine that I took this evening. The setup was... tripoded f707 cybershot, f4.0 exposure for 1.6 seconds. The location was the "graffiti hallway" located beneath Mandeville on the UC San Diego campus and the shot was taken at night.

At some point, when I have taken better pictures, I may elaborate on the light side of Charmaine; which there is substantially more of.







As always, suggestions or comments are greatly appreciated!

• Chui

The last 2 work better than the first, but the background is so busy that even with the white shirt, she is still lost in the busy background.

Morris

Daniel Chui said:

I thought I would post some pictures of my girlfriend Charmaine
that I took this evening. The setup was... tripoded f707 cybershot,
f4.0 exposure for 1.6 seconds. The location was the "graffiti
hallway" located beneath Mandeville on the UC San Diego campus and
the shot was taken at night.

At some point, when I have taken better pictures, I may elaborate
on the light side of Charmaine; which there is substantially more
of.







As always, suggestions or comments are greatly appreciated!

• Chui

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Daniel Chui said:

I thought I would post some pictures of my girlfriend Charmaine
that I took this evening. The setup was... tripoded f707 cybershot,
f4.0 exposure for 1.6 seconds. The location was the "graffiti
hallway" located beneath Mandeville on the UC San Diego campus and
the shot was taken at night.

At some point, when I have taken better pictures, I may elaborate
on the light side of Charmaine; which there is substantially more
of.
http://chui.bensbargains.net/Charmgrafsmall.jpg
http://chui.bensbargains.net/Charmgraffsmall.jpg
http://chui.bensbargains.net/Charmgrafffsmall.jpg
As always, suggestions or comments are greatly appreciated!

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Hi Daniel nice pics .. of your long suffering gf ... poor girl making her sit in all that graffiti for your odd asthetic needs

But the file sizes are way way big ... 450kb in the first one .. I recon that could have been 100k and not lost detail ... are you compressing them at all for the web, dont forget we are not printing your pics only viewing on monitors with low low dpi

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Mark

Thanks for the comment, Morris. I actually didn't want her to be so much the main focus of the picture as part of the chaos in the graffiti hallway, which may explain why she doesn't immediately jump out at the viewer.

However, next time I take pictures at this location I may ask her to wear clothes that are more visible in such a busy background.

• Chui

morris said:

Morris

Daniel Chui said:

I thought I would post some pictures of my girlfriend Charmaine
that I took this evening. The setup was... tripoded f707 cybershot,
f4.0 exposure for 1.6 seconds. The location was the "graffiti
hallway" located beneath Mandeville on the UC San Diego campus and
the shot was taken at night.

At some point, when I have taken better pictures, I may elaborate
on the light side of Charmaine; which there is substantially more
of.







As always, suggestions or comments are greatly appreciated!

• Chui

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Thanks Mark. I did not realize that saving in a smaller file size would not result in loss of quality. Usually I just save the file as a JPEG, with 12 quality in Photoshop 7, and then upload it to my brother's server.

What do you think is a fair JPEG quality for viewing online?

• Chui

Mark_A said:

Daniel Chui said:

I thought I would post some pictures of my girlfriend Charmaine
that I took this evening. The setup was... tripoded f707 cybershot,
f4.0 exposure for 1.6 seconds. The location was the "graffiti
hallway" located beneath Mandeville on the UC San Diego campus and
the shot was taken at night.

At some point, when I have taken better pictures, I may elaborate
on the light side of Charmaine; which there is substantially more
of.
http://chui.bensbargains.net/Charmgrafsmall.jpg
http://chui.bensbargains.net/Charmgraffsmall.jpg
http://chui.bensbargains.net/Charmgrafffsmall.jpg
As always, suggestions or comments are greatly appreciated!

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Hi Daniel nice pics .. of your long suffering gf ... poor girl
making her sit in all that graffiti for your odd asthetic needs

But the file sizes are way way big ... 450kb in the first one .. I
recon that could have been 100k and not lost detail ... are you
compressing them at all for the web, dont forget we are not
printing your pics only viewing on monitors with low low dpi

--
Mark

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Daniel Chui said:

Thanks Mark. I did not realize that saving in a smaller file size
would not result in loss of quality. Usually I just save the file
as a JPEG, with 12 quality in Photoshop 7, and then upload it to my
brother's server.

What do you think is a fair JPEG quality for viewing online?

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I dont know what the "quality" measures are in your software ...

Mine allows me to see what the image will look like at 1:1 scale as I add compression .. so I may start at 70% or 80% or if there is a lot of detail perhaps more ... one trick is to reduce filesize until you start to see jpeg effects visible in the image then you know you have gone a little too far .. add a little filesize back and you have pretty much "optimized" it

Hope that helps .. but as I dont know what software you are using ... I am not sure .. btw plain areas compress much more than high detail ... thats why sometimes on websites images are spliced some parts even saved as gif with others as jpeg etc ....

its a hangover from when all were on 28k modems but there are still plenty of people online with 40-56k connections I think ...

hth

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Mark

"nice pics .. of your long suffering gf ... poor girl

Mark_A said:

making her sit in all that graffiti for your odd asthetic needs "

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HAHAHAH Mark... I hadn't thought of that. Actually, she was the person who suggested that I take pictures there in the first place. While I liked the graffiti hallway I thought that it was a little hard to make into a good image, so I told her to plop down in the picture and see how it turns out.

• Chui

Mark_A said:

Daniel Chui said:

I thought I would post some pictures of my girlfriend Charmaine
that I took this evening. The setup was... tripoded f707 cybershot,
f4.0 exposure for 1.6 seconds. The location was the "graffiti
hallway" located beneath Mandeville on the UC San Diego campus and
the shot was taken at night.

At some point, when I have taken better pictures, I may elaborate
on the light side of Charmaine; which there is substantially more
of.
http://chui.bensbargains.net/Charmgrafsmall.jpg
http://chui.bensbargains.net/Charmgraffsmall.jpg
http://chui.bensbargains.net/Charmgrafffsmall.jpg
As always, suggestions or comments are greatly appreciated!

Click to expand...

Hi Daniel nice pics .. of your long suffering gf ... poor girl
making her sit in all that graffiti for your odd asthetic needs

But the file sizes are way way big ... 450kb in the first one .. I
recon that could have been 100k and not lost detail ... are you
compressing them at all for the web, dont forget we are not
printing your pics only viewing on monitors with low low dpi

--
Mark

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Daniel Chui - you have some really nice photos.

However, I sure would like to to take some more photos of your girlfriend except this time move in a little closer. And Daniel, lower the camera to about her mid section or chest or waist high and step back just enough to get her all in the photo. Take several poses and then re post them.

Thanks. I love your black & white. You have a very attractive girlfriend.

kr616

on prospect street?
there was a couple shooting around prospect.. looked like a sony camera
and the girl looks like the one i saw
what a coincidence if so

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living life one shot at a time

San Diego, CA

Sorry j A b, I didn't actually take any pictures with Charmaine during the day on Tuesday... these were taken at night. But hey, maybe you'll have another sighting sometime. We take pictures everywhere!

• cHUI

j A b said:

on prospect street?
there was a couple shooting around prospect.. looked like a sony
camera
and the girl looks like the one i saw
what a coincidence if so

--
living life one shot at a time

San Diego, CA

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Thank you for the kind words, Jack; and your suggestions are great! I actually did do a few shots where she was the main subject, but unfortunately that segment of the graffiti was not very interesting and as such I didn't really like those shots. I will take your suggestions and try them out the next time I shoot portraits at this location!

Thanks for the comment on my gf too.. it made her smile.

• Chui

JackB. said:

Daniel Chui - you have some really nice photos.

However, I sure would like to to take some more photos of your
girlfriend except this time move in a little closer. And Daniel,
lower the camera to about her mid section or chest or waist high
and step back just enough to get her all in the photo. Take
several poses and then re post them.

Thanks. I love your black & white. You have a very attractive
girlfriend.

kr616

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