What did you shoot/process today, Aug. 9

worldweissweb · Aug 9, 2004

Hannah,

Thanks for the feedback. That is something I'll have to take into consideration when posting here. I suppose the best solution is to post links to webpages instead of posting the pics here. Then I could save the pics in three different sizes or something along those lines. I am going to go resize those pics right now, so everyone can see them...

I hate compressing though!

Oh well, thanks, I appreciate the food for thought.

majfive · Aug 9, 2004

don't know ~ I use the Canon Powershot A75 for my pictures.

worldweissweb · Aug 9, 2004

Hannah,

I resized and compressed these pics so they are now 47k, 57k, and 60k. I was wondering if you would do me a favor and reload my original spider post. If you use Internet Explorer, hold down the shift key when you press the RELOAD/REFRESH button at the top of the screen, so it reloads the pics from scratch.

This would help me out so much, because I use broadband and don't know how the pictures are loading with dial-up. I'd like to fix this problem now and in future posts, rather than gain a reputation for having embedded pictures that are so annoyingly large, no one views my posts.

I'd be so grateful, if you'd let me know how they load now.

Thanks!!! Steve W

HannahV wrote:
Yours took me a little while to download. I have a dial-up

HannahV said:
and some pictures load so slow I can't view them. Several I really
wanted to see.

HannahV

HannahV · Aug 9, 2004

they can take a long time when you have a dial-up. I like to see the pictures here. Sometimes when I crop and or resize, the focal point is too small at 100%. First I go to "save for the web" in Elements and see how large the file is and if it's under 150k I go back to Elements and bump the resolution up to about 96. That usually fixes it. Don't know if that is the right way to do it but it works.

HannahV

worldweissweb said:
Hannah,
Thanks for the feedback. That is something I'll have to take into
consideration when posting here. I suppose the best solution is to
post links to webpages instead of posting the pics here. Then I
could save the pics in three different sizes or something along
those lines. I am going to go resize those pics right now, so
everyone can see them...

I hate compressing though!

Oh well, thanks, I appreciate the food for thought.

worldweissweb · Aug 9, 2004

I suppose I'll do the same. Time to fire up the adobe apps....
Thanks!

HannahV said:
HannahV

worldweissweb said:

Hannah,
Thanks for the feedback. That is something I'll have to take into
consideration when posting here. I suppose the best solution is to
post links to webpages instead of posting the pics here. Then I
could save the pics in three different sizes or something along
those lines. I am going to go resize those pics right now, so
everyone can see them...

I hate compressing though!

Oh well, thanks, I appreciate the food for thought.

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NNS · Aug 9, 2004

Kind of bored and out of ideas.

HannahV · Aug 9, 2004

they popped right up there and I couldn't see any loss in the pictures. I use IE. I'm a good beta tester! My dial up is about 21600bps right now and slower sometimes. Life is rural America.

I don't think you have to make the file size so small if you only post 1 or 2 pictures. I don't mind waiting a little while to view them it's just when they take 5 minutes to download 1 picture that's a bummer.

HannahV

worldweissweb said:
This would help me out so much, because I use broadband and don't
know how the pictures are loading with dial-up. I'd like to fix
this problem now and in future posts, rather than gain a reputation
for having embedded pictures that are so annoyingly large, no one
views my posts.

I'd be so grateful, if you'd let me know how they load now.

Thanks!!! Steve W

HannahV wrote:
Yours took me a little while to download. I have a dial-up

worldweissweb said:

and some pictures load so slow I can't view them. Several I really
wanted to see.

HannahV

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geojoe · Aug 9, 2004

Thanks for your comment. I never thought about the sharpness of photos "dating" them!

worldweissweb said:
geojoe said:

Processed by adjusting contrast, sharpening and cropping in Photoshop.

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geojoe · Aug 9, 2004

Thank you Hannah, glad you liked it. My wife and I love to visit that location to go birding.

HannahV said:
I guess the first one is really my favorite. Nice pictures.

Hannah

georgie_c · Aug 9, 2004

In my opinion, meteor showers are best-taken with a normal lens. You want a wide view of the sky to get the effect. Telephoto would probably not give the best results. I'd suggest putting the camera on a tripod and taking long exposures. Test it some night before the actual event. Adjust the exposure so that you get a faint outline of the horizion, including trees and a few mountains if possible. If you shoot above a city skyline, be careful that the city lights don't burn through and distract from the sky. Try to get the brightest stars slightly visible in the shot. Then a bright meteor trail would stand out in contrast with the earth and sky. At least that's my suggestion.

For the nebula shot, I used a Canon A80 attached to my telescope.

geo

HannahV said:
HannahV

georgie_c said:

The Ring Nebula in the Constellation, Lyra. Located about 2500
light-years away, it's the death throes of a star. 23 shots taken
with Canon A80 and then stacked into one. I took the shots this
weekend and processed it last night.

Anyone else doing astro photography?

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RideMX · Aug 9, 2004

Bruce Jones said:
Anything?

How Bout these from Saturday at Arlington?

Medic Laviña · Aug 9, 2004

Bruce Jones said:
From yesterday and today's walking around . . .

St. Paul's Church

Adirondacks in the shadows

House at dawn

Nice! ;-)

--
Medic

preswing · Aug 9, 2004

Bruce Jones said:
Anything?

kept rattling his tail and insisting I take his picture.

lehi · Aug 9, 2004

preswing said:
kept rattling his tail and insisting I take his picture.

LOL. Did he show you his big toothy grin? ;^) I'll be glad when these guys go back into hibernation!

--
Lehi=^..^=

http://www.pbase.com/lehi/my_fur_kids

lehi · Aug 9, 2004

HannahV said:
I can see where he got his name

Hi Hannah,

Actually his name came from a cheap perfume company. I was holding Skeeter like a baby one day, playing and scratching his tummy, and while I was doing it I was saying "scratch a belly". It reminded me of the perfume company Prince Matchabelli so I said to myself that I was naming my next cat Prince Scratchabelli - and I did!

--
Lehi=^..^=

http://www.pbase.com/lehi/my_fur_kids

Bruce Jones · Aug 9, 2004

I'm still trying to get the hang of the S50. But it's beginning to become familiar.

-- Bruce

Dave Hanson · Aug 9, 2004

Taking flight:

Soaring overhead:

Dinner time!

More soaring:

All straight from my S1, unmodified except for resizing and renaming.

Dave

Dave Hanson · Aug 9, 2004

These are really nice. I particularly like the backlighting of the last one.

Dave

beerguy said:
Beautiful evening last night. Just processing tonight.

Flapping away...

My turn!

Geese on parade

Reflections on geese

Kids playing on the beach (my favorite)

--
Cheers,

bg

Check out my gallery at http://beerguy.smugmug.com

beerguy · Aug 9, 2004

Beautiful evening last night. Just processing tonight.

Flapping away...

My turn!

Geese on parade

Reflections on geese

Kids playing on the beach (my favorite)

--
Cheers,

bg

Check out my gallery at http://beerguy.smugmug.com

lehi · Aug 9, 2004

I love the first and last photo, and the ones in between are pretty darn good too!

--
Lehi=^..^=

http://www.pbase.com/lehi/my_fur_kids

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