Evening Commute
Took this picture in east central Colombia also. The sunset was fantastic that evening with many wonderful cloud formations. This guy happened to fly by -- I snapped a quick picture and got this image which has really grown on me. I cropped a small bit and then reduced the image size. I'm not sure I'm doing this part right -- the images always seem to lose so much when this is done. Any advice here would also be helpful.
Nikon D50
100-300mm F4
200mm
F4
1/500
Mike
Here is the way I resize. It seems to work on all images other than ones with extreme, frame filling details to get down to the right size.
In CS3 Go: Image > Image Size - Enter 800 Pixels in the long side / top depending on orientation.
I use Bicubic (Bi cubic sharper introduces halos in high contrast areas)
Then you have two choices; save as or save for web. Save for web does a good job of preserving quality while compressing, but can underestimate the final file size by a pretty hefty margin even if you use the optimize to file size option. It also deletes the Exif data if you don't tell it to preserve. Even then, most programs wont read the Exif when you use save for web.
Save As, is more accurate in terms of final file size. What you set is what you get. It works well for images that don't have a lot of screen filling BG details and thus don't need a lot of compression to get to the desired file size. I don't like to use a quality setting of less than 8 and almost never use less than 6 unless forced to.
Jim is right on with the advice, your image could be overly compressed, it would be better to save to about 100-140 kb to preserve the quality of the image.
Is the location Columbia as in South america???
Robert
Hi Mike,. ON the Save menu there is a slider and hardly noticeable is the FILE SIZE.
Very small print, but so useful.
You can alter your file size here and read it off and never need to go to Save for Web again
I wonder, as you say that you've lost some quality in reducing the size if you pic would look
more like its original self if you upped the saturation a little Control U.
(Colombia = Country in South Amercia. Columbia in the US or Canada :))
hal
Yes -- Colombia the country. The eastern part of the country is this vast tropical grassland called the Llanos. Incredible numbers of birds from wading birds to raptors to migratory songbirds. I got some great pictures in the limited amount of time I had outside of work. Beautiful place I would like to visit again sometime for the sole purpose of taking photos. There are some plans to develop ecotourism there which should provide more opportunities.
Awesome to hear Mike, I have heard a lot about the Llanos, BBC, Nature series maybe, thanks for sharing. Wish I could join you when you head back.Originally Posted by Mike Fuhr
Robert
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