How about a Photography forum.
I know there is the gallery but it isnt the best place to chat about your photos.
I know there is the gallery but it isnt the best place to chat about your photos.
Photography Forum
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Generally folks just post their photos in the relevant thread. No one seems to object to technical details of the actual photography being discussed either. Actually it's quite interesting, Wayland, Jon Pickett, Grooveski, among others, all post some really fine work, and they sometimes give details of how they got the actual shot. Details of things I wouldn't normally read, but it's making me think more about the photos I take and how best to go about it. 
Cheers,
Toddy
Cheers,
Toddy
Its a good idea Matt, its a great medium of communication and sharing what weve seen and what we do. As with all the ideas for new forums theyre based on use, if there were a lot of threads on the subject then a new forum could be justified. If I just create a new forum and it never gets used it will end up being scrapped and have been extra work for nothing. Quite a bit of posting is needed to warrant a new forum.
Im very interested in getting new pictures up on the site though so Id encourage anyone to use the gallery more. Pictures can be linked into threads and as this side of things grows we can reconsider the forum. We all love good pictures.
In the site revamp thats in the pipeline its more picture friendly than it is at the moment. That may also help.
If some of you are interested in sharing info about photography feel free to do so. The article that we had in issue two of the magazine went down very well and we intend to do some more. If anyone has good pictures youd like published then feel free to send me them
Im very interested in getting new pictures up on the site though so Id encourage anyone to use the gallery more. Pictures can be linked into threads and as this side of things grows we can reconsider the forum. We all love good pictures.
In the site revamp thats in the pipeline its more picture friendly than it is at the moment. That may also help.
If some of you are interested in sharing info about photography feel free to do so. The article that we had in issue two of the magazine went down very well and we intend to do some more. If anyone has good pictures youd like published then feel free to send me them
Tony or (others in the know)
Whats the best way to downsize your pictures to put them on the gallery?
I appreciate that server space is at a premium, but when i try to compress my pictures in photoshop, even at maximum compression it they won't go down far enough to be accepted on the forum.
The perils of having a 8mp camera and 22.5MB file sizes!!!
Whats the best way to downsize your pictures to put them on the gallery?
I appreciate that server space is at a premium, but when i try to compress my pictures in photoshop, even at maximum compression it they won't go down far enough to be accepted on the forum.
The perils of having a 8mp camera and 22.5MB file sizes!!!
ArkAngel said:Tony or (others in the know)
Whats the best way to downsize your pictures to put them on the gallery?
I appreciate that server space is at a premium, but when i try to compress my pictures in photoshop, even at maximum compression it they won't go down far enough to be accepted on the forum.
The perils of having a 8mp camera and 22.5MB file sizes!!!
Photoshop should be able to do it easily. Go to File menu and select Save for web (photoshop 7). You can then select the image size in pixels - 500 pixels should result in a file size that is plenty manageable (My 6Mp camera outputs 3.5 meg jpegs and after doing the above they are usually between 50 and 100k ) You can also adjust the quality of the image in the same place.
Alternatively if you have an earlier version of photoshop without this option you should simply be able to resize the image to something similar and then save it with a similar result.
Hope that helps and i'm not just teaching you to suck eggs
Marts said:Alternatively if you have an earlier version of photoshop without this option you should simply be able to resize the image to something similar and then save it with a similar result.
Hope that helps and i'm not just teaching you to suck eggs
Actually Marts I have PS6 and it has the same feature.
The other thing to do is > adjust image size (no bigger than 800x600pixels) > save as > adjust image quality > save.
That's the way I do mine
Tony said:If anyone has good pictures youd like published then feel free to send me them
I may just do that!
Cheers
stovie said:Actually Marts I have PS6 and it has the same feature.
The other thing to do is > adjust image size (no bigger than 800x600pixels) > save as > adjust image quality > save.
That's the way I do mine
As stovie said, i tend to just resize the image to 800 on the largest side with the constraints locked to keep the aspect ratio the same as the original then save it under the same file name but with _web i.e Bush_web.jpg. The other way is to upload the pics to a photobucket account or something like that, it will automatically resize it for the web.
ArkAngel said:Tony or (others in the know)
Whats the best way to downsize your pictures to put them on the gallery?
I appreciate that server space is at a premium, but when i try to compress my pictures in photoshop, even at maximum compression it they won't go down far enough to be accepted on the forum.
The perils of having a 8mp camera and 22.5MB file sizes!!!
If using windows XP, it is easy to resize photo's using microsofts free download, Image Resizer on this link, just scroll down to it.
To resize once downloaded, just right click on your photo, and select the resizer..
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx
If you are using Linux, The Gimp is probably your best bet, it has quite a few facilities. As Jon said the XP powetoy is about the easiest to use for the Microsoft software.
I'm a qualified camera club photography judge who specialises in landscape and wildlife photography. I'd love there to be a place to discuss what we've been up to. It would give me another excuse to upload more pics into the galleries!!
jamesoconnor said:I'm a qualified camera club photography judge who specialises in landscape and wildlife photography. I'd love there to be a place to discuss what we've been up to. It would give me another excuse to upload more pics into the galleries!!
But you might judge and criticise us.
Photoshop via 'Save For Web' is very good as Marts suggests, especially if you use it to process images first. But it's a bit rich for just resizing images
Often photographic modules for BB have a resize facility. Maybe something Tony is looking at with the revamp.
For the Mac (I highly recommend Imagewell Which is great at quickly reducing image file size, changing them to jpg etc suitable for web pages and especially handy is batch conversion; even direct upload to an ftp server.. Best of all it's freeware
Often photographic modules for BB have a resize facility. Maybe something Tony is looking at with the revamp.
For the Mac (I highly recommend Imagewell Which is great at quickly reducing image file size, changing them to jpg etc suitable for web pages and especially handy is batch conversion; even direct upload to an ftp server.. Best of all it's freeware
http://www.bushcraftuk.com/community/showthread.php?t=3902&page=3&pp=40&highlight=photography
This is a very old thread and a lot of the links in are dead but there are still some great pictures in it from a number of people which may be of interest to people.. Might be an idea to start a new similar one!?
This is a very old thread and a lot of the links in are dead but there are still some great pictures in it from a number of people which may be of interest to people.. Might be an idea to start a new similar one!?
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