nano shot
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DirtySouth056
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looks great, how about a few close ups
Stoney Mahony
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How do you post such high resolution pictures? I have a high resolution camera but when I try to post on here, my files are always way to big and I have to reformat the picture into a crappy resolution so that it will be under 50k. Any suggestions?
Stoney Mahony
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Sorry but whats dpi? The answer to your question is probably no. I love reefs but have zero experience with photography. I compress the files so they are viewable on a webpage or blog but thats it. I am sure I need to do alot more reading before I will post anything good.
clippo
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thanks! - I do most of my editing in Photoshop 7 (PS7) - basically, you can change your size and dpi settings really easily using this software - you'll want the image to be in JPEG format btw. When you come to save the image, if you click 'save for web' you can get a preview of what the image will look like at a given compression setting which is pretty useful.
wetWolger
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love the photo of the mandarin...wish mine was not so camera shy
also on the post about picture sizes. I host all my photos at:
www.pixpipeline.com
You can host high res copys there than the RC hosting. It is free, easy, and gives you up to 100mb. Also it will auto resize your raw images for posting on a forum. It is cool because you can just post the pics, you don't need to link to there site or anything.
also on the post about picture sizes. I host all my photos at:
www.pixpipeline.com
You can host high res copys there than the RC hosting. It is free, easy, and gives you up to 100mb. Also it will auto resize your raw images for posting on a forum. It is cool because you can just post the pics, you don't need to link to there site or anything.
astrogazer
Premium Member
Using whatever photo editing software you have, photoshop is the industry standard, set your dpi to 72, which is a standard screen resolution, and then set your image size to say about 800 x 600 pixels (points), this will give you an image size of about 250- 750 kB which will give you images that can resolve to this:
bklinefelter
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Shots look great!!!
astrogazer
Premium Member
You got it, softened the hotshoe mounted SB800 strobe, used the 18-70mm 'Kit" lens with the D70, this was about 20% of the original frame, then after masking did a motion blur and apllied high contrast and low brightness to 'kill' what was left of the background. Whenever you mask a subject and alter the background there will be artifacts along the mask line, usually when a background is edited out it's either to go dark, light, or a specific color or background, bear in mind which direction you are going it will be used later. After all maked effects have been achieved, on both sides of the mask, select the main mask of the subject, then modify it to select a border of the selection proportional to the resolution of final output size, I'll usually feather this by 10-20% of the border size, then gausian blur this selected border, very slightly, but the aim is to hide the 'edge' but don't go nuts 1 or 2 pixes is enough. Use the hide extras (PS7) command and view at 100% (an edge area), just blur enough to blend. After satisfied with the blur either use brightness/contrast to blend the border light or dark, or use color hue if that was the way you went to finalize your edge, if done right you'll be hard pressed to notice the edit.
Sorry so long winded ... this is my first reply of the day and my fingers are at the ready.
clippo
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I usually shoot at ISO 100 - I use an overhead flash. I keep all my shots below 150kb so they load up quick. Check out my website and forum at www.digital-reefs.com
