Photography for the DGN Calendar

[Msterbeau]

Whatever happened with the calendar?  Did we give up?

Pretty much. :whistling

[Draco1958]

Marc, I'll help camera wise where I can. I have a Kodak CX-7430, 4mp digital camera. My pic work has been Air Displays at Willow Run and Selfridge Air Base taking pics of planes. Like you I want to learn more about taking pics of people altho I have been practicing on my niece at her request. I have learned that when saving pics on the pc as a Jpeg, turn the compression down below 10. I use 1. File doesn't compress as much and reduces pixelization problems from repeated saves. I also have a good quality tripod if needed. Here's a sample:

[Msterbeau]

Marc, I'll help camera wise where I can.  I have a Kodak CX-7430, 4mp digital camera.  My pic work has been Air Displays at Willow Run and Selfridge Air Base taking pics of planes.  Like you I want to learn more about taking pics of people altho I have been practicing on my niece at her request.  I have learned that when saving pics on the pc as a Jpeg, turn the compression down below 10.  I use 1.  File doesn't compress as much and reduces pixelization problems from repeated saves.  I also have a good quality tripod if needed.  Here's a sample:

Actually... I'd use max quality always unless saving for web. What program are you using? In Photoshop you have a scale of 1-12. 12 is best... as you go down, quality diminishes. I'm asuming what you're using gets worse quality the higher the number? The best thing to do is never save over your original image. Save a copy if your going to work on it... then save in either TIFF or Native (Photoshop for me) format so you don't lose the original image nor keep degrading from successive saves a s a JPEG. Always use that TIFF or native image to start from and re-edit...

[Draco1958]

I usually use Picture Publisher 8. Still learning Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro. Yes the lower the number, the less compression, higher quality in the save. It also reduces the loss of quality from multiple saves. I also use the max quality setting on my camera, the pics are huge to start with.

[Msterbeau]

I usually use Picture Publisher 8.  Still learning Photoshop and Paint Shop Pro.  Yes the lower the number, the less compression, higher quality in the save.  It also reduces the loss of quality from multiple saves.  I also use the max quality setting on my camera, the pics are huge to start with.

4MP huge? Heh... Try dealing with the 10.9MP from my D200. I already had 2.5GB of CF cards but I had to get another (2GB) to deal with the increase in file size from my D70 I think I need another card... :whistling

You really shouldn't save a jpeg more then once if you want best quality. Edit from the native file always and then resize and save as needed.