Photography 2

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Well..... Let's try something.
Now, if I can ever do this again.
This is off of a flash drive to my phone. Most files I scanned at like 48mb, so I'm not sure if this site resizes them. I don't even know how large this one started our as.
Anyway, I named it Jims poppy.
I worked for the fella and his wife a few times and he asked me to stay at his home whenever they took a vacation or cruise.
It was a dozen miles up the river and his home was right next to the river. Where he lived, the river was still affected by tides.
This was in his garden.

 

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A photo session with a friends Model A

 

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This a is a wave bursting high into the air. The people are standing 75 to 90 feet above the ocean. No, that's not a large bush on the right side of the photo. Look close on the left side of the wave burst. See my pet seagull. His name is lucky

 

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One of my lucky ones. Shot just before dark. My exposure time was about 1/4 seconds as I recall... Maybe 1/2.
I watched the pilot boat head out and disappear into the fog bank. A couple hours earlier I saw the ship offshore, awaiting the arrival of the pilot.
So, I knew why the pilot boat was headed out. It was just a waiting game. Sometimes it's clear along the beach and the fog just sits offshore like a brick. No way would I ever be able to get these ducks back in a row, so this ones special.

 

[Commercial Floor Rep]

Well..... Let's try something.
Now, if I can ever do this again.
This is off of a flash drive to my phone. Most files I scanned at like 48mb, so I'm not sure if this site resizes them. I don't even know how large this one started our as.
Anyway, I named it Jims poppy.
I worked for the fella and his wife a few times and he asked me to stay at his home whenever they took a vacation or cruise.
It was a dozen miles up the river and his home was right next to the river. Where he lived, the river was still affected by tides.
This was in his garden.
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Wow! That's a keeper there Hi! Great shot!

 

[Commercial Floor Rep]

I have a cable arriving today to connect my flash drives to the phone....... I never knew these were in existence.
...film at 11:00

Yeah, it became a thing when they made a version of Adobe Lightroom for the phone. A lot of people started using it for quick edits instead of transferring from the phone to the computer or laptop. Then the phone would get pretty full and they didn't want to deal with the compression that happens to images when you move them wirelessly. It also gives you a way to move images from a camera to a phone or tablet if you use one of those to edit your images.

The phone version of Lightroom doesn't quite have all the bells and whistles as the desktop version, but it works pretty well for basic editing, cropping, and resizing. Things like noise removal, or "super resolution" which is Adobe's version of upscaling an image" aren't in that version, but those are more for advanced situations anyway. You can do masks, and presets with the mobile version and a ton of people use those. I don't tend to use presets as I shoot in RAW and I like to do most of my editing by hand based on my exposure and composition for each shot.

Compression happens on social media platforms and also on wireless transfers and emails so that the file size isn't so large, and the images will load quicker, especially when scrolling on a mobile device. The compression algorithm removes data if the image is above whatever size the software or website has established to make the picture smaller. It also works in reverse. If the picture falls below their minimum the algorithm will try and add data to make the image larger to hit it's minimum file size which will normally also result in pixelization. Unfortunately, it doesn't do a very good job most of the time. The way to avoid it on uploading is to find out what the minimum and maximum and when you export or resize your picture set the dimensions to fall just at their maximum. For Facebook, as an example, you want to upload the image with a maximum of 2048 pixels on the long edge of the image. Then it won't get changed. I can't remember what their minimum is, but I think it's something like 770 pixels on the long edge. For Instagram it's 1080 pixels on the long edge for their oddly shaped square images. For most of the images I upload here 2048 pixels on the long edge works well. There's a maximum file size on this site too though. I think it's around 10MB. If you upload a picture larger than that, it won't display it in the feed. It'll show it as an attachment that you have to click on to open so it doesn't slow the site down when loading. Again, 2048 works really well here. That is typically about a 2MB file size.

At any rate, I've taken too many classes on editing and spent hours and hours watching tutorials on compression and other editing trivia when I should have been out taking photos!