Assignment #10: Water

[brad]

Water.. moving or not.

[Will Raybourn]

This is one from a while back, but I have always liked the colors...Taken at Moody Gardens in the RainForest Pyramid.

[bburton]

As the blazing hot Texas summer drags on, the amount of water collected in one of these rain gauges in our garden begins to assume paramount importance.

[Roy]

Weston Garden this spring

[bburton]

Originally Posted by Roy

Weston Garden this spring

Roy,

That's a good shot of that waterfall. If I recall, getting over to that side to take the picture from that perspective was not an easy task. At least, I remember I was too lazy to try it. Thus, I don't have a good picture. :oops:

But you do. Congratulations on your initiative. :)

[PhotoSpidy]

here's mine, i want all opinions :)

[bburton]

Originally Posted by PhotoSpidy

here's mine, i want all opinions :)

I think they would display even better if they were larger: you could easily double the size and probably double their on-line impact for the viewer. Your long side (horizontal) can be between 640 and 800 pixels. Just my thoughts. :)

[shoyles]

Here's one of my daughter in some moving water.

[dlee]

A Fall photo from Lost Maples State Park

[PhotoSpidy]

i resized them and played with it between the 640 and 800 you said, and it keeps telling me that they are too large of files to upload, when resizing, it tells me how big the file is and it says 256 on photoshop, but says 144 on here. i will admit i am a photoshop idiot :? most of what i have learned on there is self taught. so any ideas on what im doing wrong would be great.

[lscottpht]

A couple from the flood in September.

[bburton]

Here's a tutorial on resizing photos which several forum members use and it was authored by a forum member, Bill Huber.

http://www.pbase.com/wlhuber/resize

Hope this helps. :)

[PhotoSpidy]

i will look that over, ty for the link, i finally resized a dozen times each and got my numbers right (i think) i have some more of some fountains and such from Opryland Hotel in Tenn. but these two gave me grey hairs so... the hotel ones may come later lol

[bburton]

Originally Posted by PhotoSpidy

i will look that over, ty for the link, i finally resized a dozen times each and got my numbers right (i think) i have some more of some fountains and such from Opryland Hotel in Tenn. but these two gave me grey hairs so... the hotel ones may come later lol

Whoa! A dozen times; you're doing something seriously wrong.

Here's your photo from above at 720 pixels width -- as such, it's only 135 kb; resaved ONCE at jpeg quality of 80%. You might check at what jpeg quality level you're saving/resaving the photos. I've found that 80% is just fine; others use even lower numbers. :) Too many resavings of a jpeg file will seriously erode the picture quality as a little bit of info is lost each time.

A file with the dimensions you posted above (524x349) should easily be 100kb or less; UNLESS you're unecessarily saving jpegs at close to 100% quality.

Don't control on the 256 limit and force your pics dimensions to comply with that maximum size; instead, resize your pic for optimum display (800x600max) and THEN use the jpeg quality to reduce the size of the file. Resave as few times as possible; ideally only once from the out-of-camera file which you've reworked. :)

Keep on pluggin'. You'll make it. :D :D

[blonboy]

Im not sure if this qualifies as a true 'water' shot, but here's one of my nephew who somehow manages to find whatever water he can.

He's playing in a little puddle that has accumulated at the bottom of a storm pipe from the house.