More Foliage from MA (updated)

[dtran]

Back to Houston and have some time to go through all the pics taken in MA last weekend, here are some that I like,

I hope you are not tired of seeing these.

More pics added (110610)

[flora]

So beautiful, beautiful & romantic....I have to go there next Fall!
Thanks for sharing, Duc.

Susan

[sawyer1206]

great photos......and now I am homesick.

[dtran]

Thanks Susan and Dennis for giving me some feedback!

[idnurse41]

Beautiful scenery and great work

[dtran]

Thanks, Pamela!

[ddaybuff]

Well done. Nice color

[dtran]

Thanks all for viewing and commenting.

I just realized that most of my pics here are too soft to be good landscape photos. I downloaded them back to my PC to compare their sizes with the original ones' to find out that 14 out of 20 pics were resized to less than 1/3 of their original sizes. I also found out that whichever pics that has size bigger than 300Kb got resized. All the resized ones of course look too soft.

Also, I did some search to find out there is no file size limit. Has any of you ever experienced this?

Here is what I found,


1. From 396KB -> 114KB
3. From 361 -> 98
5. From 363 -> 102
6. From 321 -> 93
7. From 317 -> 93
8. From 358 -> 106
9. From 413 -> 112
10. From 347 -> 92
11. From 376 -> 95
13. From 423 -> 113
14. From 395 -> 121
16. From 389 -> 111
18. From 407 -> 117
19. From 329KB -> 90KB

[flora]

I have had the same problem with my macro photos.
Susan

[dtran]

Alright, I decided to removed all the resized (soft) ones and uploaded 3 others with smaller size.

[dtran]

Just resized and reposted some pics.

[BienDong]

Man, you are killing me, bro !!!!

[jeffkohn]

Nice series. I really like the rain/dew-drops on the leaves in #4 & #6. The soft, quiet light works well to bring out the colors especially in #7 & #8, which I think are my two favorites. The rocks and reflections in #9 are nice, but I think I coudl do without the band of sky at the top. Well done overall.

About the file sizing issue. As you've noticed, there is indeed a 300KB limit to files uploaded as attachments to TPF. Files larger than this get aggressively re-compressed and the result is not pretty. Try a JPEG quality of 10 and you should be able to stay under the 300K limit for most images this size without compromising quality. Alternately, if you host the images elsewhere and just embed them in the thread with 'img' tags, there is no limit on file size.

[jfoureyes]

The colors are fabulous!! I never post anything above 290KB from my computer

[ttusa]

WOW would never tire of these gorgeous colors!