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    Re: Winter in Norway.

    Quote Originally Posted by jiro View Post
    Nice shot, André. There's always an advantage when you are on a great location. Landscape shots are a plenty!
    Thanks Jiro! I love landscape shots! There's so many possibilities, and there's a lot of places to take wonderful shots.

    Quote Originally Posted by Peter Ryan View Post
    I was wondering about the colour. Both images have a blue colour cast to them and I was wondering if this is what you see in the real world or is the white balance setting not fully compensating for the colour of the light?
    Both pictures was taken during sunset, so it's pretty dark and it does get a little blue. I've tried to emphasize that though and get it to show more. The white balance is a bit off, but I don't think it's a problem considering I was trying for more blue.

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    Re: Winter in Norway.

    Quote Originally Posted by Slugbug View Post
    ... Both pictures was taken during sunset, so it's pretty dark and it does get a little blue.
    Looks good Andre from down here near Oslo. can't say we get lots of 'blue' during winter but I'm reliably told by an ex-northerner that its quite blue up there around the dusk and dawn times or when the sun hovers near the horizon but never quite gets over it. The 'blue' could of course be the level of marital debate when the sun don't come up for weeks and weeks

    I can't however confess to being Nordic (coming from Australia) but how you folk can go out and about in such freezing weather I will never understand. I would need extreme shutter speeds to over come the shakes. "What am I doing here then" you may well ask ... its all down to the female sex and us blokes always give in But it is nice folk and country.

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    Re: Winter in Norway.

    Quote Originally Posted by Dave Humphries View Post
    Hi André,

    Welcome to the CiC forums from me, great to have you join us, especialy with such a lovely picture.
    Willie, Tim and Paul have that angle well covered, so I'll jump on my hobby horse and answer your question

    Personally, I would strongly recommend that for internet use, you change the units from cm to pixels when resizing for online use.

    If you use cm, how big it appears depends upon the ppi you have set, we don't know what that is and you could catch yourself out one day by changing the ppi (to do a print) and all your internet images start coming out a different size (unless you remember to compensate by choosing a different cm size).

    I don't know how you arrived at that 30cm figure, but of course, although 30cm (12") is about the horizontal size you'd want it across a typical 23" (diag) monitor, there is no correlation between the two sizes - the internet works on pixels only and what physical size they appear to viewers depends on their screen size and resolution, plus many other things.

    When I said "the internet works on pixels" I meant some things happen at specific pixel dimensions, like 'maximum size' limits, etc. and it will be impossible to predict (without in-head maths) when these things are going to affect your pictures (usually adversely )

    For example, the images in the CiC forum re-size to 700 px for display inline - if you click them, you see them bigger, sometimes life size, other times less (depending on many factors). Why does that matter?
    Your images actually come out at 850px across, so CiC resizes them to make them fit the page nicely and in the process, they will appear a little softer because any output sharpening you applied after the downsize to 30cm gets 'diluted' in the downsize.

    Try a test;
    First ensure your browser isn't also zoomed (that's another thing that really makes images look soft when they aren't), so press Ctrl + 0 (zero),
    Then hit F11 on keyboard to get rid of the browser header and footer panels,
    Now have a look at your picture, specifically at the edges and fine detail,
    Now click the image; it should open in a Lytebox a bit bigger, it is sharper, isn't it?

    Our associated TinyPic hosting service has a 1600 pixel (on longest side) limit
    The CiC albums maintain a 700px (on longest side) limit
    If those sizes are exceeded, both will permanently downsize your images to their mximum when saving to them (although you have not needed to use them).

    So yes, you do need to downsize, rather than leave at original resolution, but please do it to a pixel size

    Sorry to labour the points here, but;
    a) I did warn it was my hobby horse and
    b) even if you knew some or all of this (oops, sorry), many others may not and they are here to learn too

    Dave dis-mounts from hobby horse

    Cheers,
    OK Dave - I'm confused now. I don't know if I've been posting correctly to date. I work on my photos in raw and when all the edits are done I convert to jpg in high quality. I upload to flickr and then copy the image location to my CiC post. Should I be doing something differently?

    Thanks

    R

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    Re: Winter in Norway.

    Sorry Andre - I neglected to comment on your photos.

    I like the scenes and I like the colours. Others have given you some good advice on composition and sharpening. I look forward to seeing more of your beautiful landscape.

    R

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    Re: Winter in Norway.

    Quote Originally Posted by Camellia View Post
    OK Dave - I'm confused now. I don't know if I've been posting correctly to date. I work on my photos in raw and when all the edits are done I convert to jpg in high quality. I upload to flickr and then copy the image location to my CiC post. Should I be doing something differently?
    Hi Raylee,

    Oh dear, I didn't mean to cause confusion

    Looking back at a couple of recent posts (Black Swans and Kookaburra), I see you are posting at 1024 on the long edge.

    I would say that's fine and the only recommendation I would make would be to add a note below such pictures saying "Click to see larger" - I generally look to see if it is being re-sized, or open in a Lytebox anyway, but not everyone knows to do that.

    Personally, I would rather see larger pictures; but about a 1000px (1024 is close enough) is the maximum size anyone should go to on vertical size, these should fit a 1080 (or larger) size screen OK. You could, for landscape orientation, go to 1600 on the width if need be - that would fit on 1680 and 1920 LCD panels nicely.

    Certainly I would say the examples I looked at were fine for sharpness - is 1024 the size you reduce to?

    All the best,

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    Re: Winter in Norway.

    I was messing around with some settings on my website, and it seems some of the photos has decided to go and disappear in the thread. I'll fix it asap.

    Quote Originally Posted by Camellia View Post
    Sorry Andre - I neglected to comment on your photos.

    I like the scenes and I like the colours. Others have given you some good advice on composition and sharpening. I look forward to seeing more of your beautiful landscape.

    R
    Thanks for not neglecting me completely!

    I have gotten some good advice indeed! I've taken it to heart and will continue to try my best to improve.
    Last edited by Slugbug; 16th March 2011 at 09:57 AM.

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