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Discussion thread for Building Photo Challenge

lloydslights — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 22:50:37 GMT

Simone, is that the Singaporean triple tower building? I saw a TV show recently which showed the construction of the site. Three teams built the towers "in a race". Apparently, the bridging across the top was an engineering feat.

DEB

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simone4010 — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 22:58:59 GMT

Yes Deb. I believe it has a casino on the roof. I didn't go to it while I was in Singapore just got took the photo from across the river. It was an awesome looking building though.

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the*scarlet*pimpernel — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 23:52:18 GMT

dammit Tende, he's got pants on

Teeny, where and what is this building?

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ten*teeny*tiny*toes — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 23:56:25 GMT

Pimpy, that is Port Arthur in Tasmania. The penitentiary, with the old hospital in the backgound.

Lots of beautiful photo opportunities there...hope to see some - mine is just a holiday snap.

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pollysd — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 01:56:15 GMT

Simone, is that the Singaporean triple tower building?

Oh, thanks for answering my question!

I've never seen anything like that. Amazing.

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tende60 — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 02:16:29 GMT

That's so funny Pimpy because when I was going snap happy, I hoped a pic may come in handy for a challenge and I did say to him that you wouldn't be impressed...

He wouldn't strip off though, the old lady over the back may have had a conniption...

Then again she may have offered some more plant cuttings...

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tcmsecretuseid — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 02:51:47 GMT

Yes, Polly. It's not a view typically caught by tourists.

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cherry*135 — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 03:55:34 GMT

This is an intereseting skyscraper in NY - the Flatiron building (1902). It is triangular shaped.

My own photos take from ground at narrow end of building doesn't show what it is really like

Photo from the net

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cherry*135 — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 03:53:08 GMT

We have quite a few historic buildings where I live, when it stops blowing a gale I will get out and take some photos.

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ten*teeny*tiny*toes — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 05:35:08 GMT

I'd like some help understanding the size and clarity of the photos that people upload.

I do understand the medium, large and fullsize options, its not about that - I've regretted medium everytime btw. I think large is best but sometimes ebay seems to do things to the pics?

I guess I want to know how people keep the clarity and have photos that load quickly for everyone.

Do 3mb photos need reducing for faster loading (in consideration of others) ? I look at size that way , pixels are a bit beyond me.

And how best to reduce those photos larger than the 3mb that exceed ebay upload limits? I saw someone mention using paint?

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cherry*135 — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 05:49:27 GMT

I am not sure tttt. I usually copy the photo direct from my camera card. Then choose large it usually comes out OK. Today I did one on full size and it didn't show as 'giant' sized.

Hopefully some experts will be able to help out here.

I was looking for this photo in the wood challenge week but couldn't find it until today. This is a photo of a film photo so not that clear.

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boris1gary — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 05:51:44 GMT

@ten*teeny*tiny*toes wrote:
I'd like some help understanding the size and clarity of the photos that people upload.

I do understand the medium, large and fullsize options, its not about that - I've regretted medium everytime btw. I think large is best but sometimes ebay seems to do things to the pics?
I guess I want to know how people keep the clarity and have photos that load quickly for everyone.
Do 3mb photos need reducing for faster loading (in consideration of others) ? I look at size that way , pixels are a bit beyond me.
And how best to reduce those photos larger than the 3mb that exceed ebay upload limits? I saw someone mention using paint?

am no expert but I use paint and resize the photo that way, then sometimes I still have to choose large or medium here.

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ten*teeny*tiny*toes — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 06:07:16 GMT

Ha Ha Am3. I always find the perfect photo the week after the theme!

Boris, I tried paint. Maybe I need a step by step. Do you resize by percentage or pixels?

What numbers in the percentage area..I think I understand percentages better than pixels

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ten*teeny*tiny*toes — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 06:11:03 GMT

I have used snipping tool before and it makes a 3mb like 66kb so I dont think that works very well.

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ten*teeny*tiny*toes — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 07:26:53 GMT

Talking to myself here but It was only until someone (was it pimpy?) mentioned having full resolution, so I changed my settings and now cant upload them

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this-one-time-at-bandcamp — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 07:41:56 GMT

When I select which photos to save, I load them at around 2500x2500 pixels to an external hard drive. If I want to upload them to different sites (like community spirit), I resize them to around a width of 800 pixels, then choose "full size" for a landscape format, or "large size" for a portrait format.

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ten*teeny*tiny*toes — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 07:56:36 GMT

Thanks bandcamp. But you may as well be speaking swahili to me.

How do you resize to 800 pixels. And do the megabytes that I am fixated on matter at all?

Your photos do look amazing and dont lose their clarity.

Ohh just saw your sharpened image, the original was over ebay loading images, the first was snipping tool and the next one I tried with paint reducing 30% I think

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j*oono — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 08:11:35 GMT

I've been finding some of the pages really slow to load in the photo challenge sometimes.

I have my little digital cameral set to VGA which basically means it takes not very good photos but they are a small file size so that they are easy to email or to use in listings.

If I use another setting and they end up being like 3mb pics then I reduce the quality in photoscape (free editing programme) and save them. It reduces the quality of the photo but it's quicker for viewing.

I'm not a master photographer and I would hate to do it with great photos but It's good just for a quick snap shot.

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boris1gary — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 08:23:45 GMT

@ten*teeny*tiny*toes wrote:
Ha Ha Am3. I always find the perfect photo the week after the theme!

Boris, I tried paint. Maybe I need a step by step. Do you resize by percentage or pixels?
What numbers in the percentage area..I think I understand percentages better than pixels

I use percentages, usually put 50 or 40 in, then save it as whatever, then undo it and don't save - so I have the original and the smaller photo.

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tende60 — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 08:26:34 GMT

TTTT,

I had a big message replied and I lost it.. LOL

Definitely no expert here.

When I take pictures, depending on the setting, they can vary from 2.5 mgb to around 5 ish mgb

What I do is I usually have to crop, then I go into paint and I re-size to either 30 or 40% (forget the pixel stuff, I have no idea) then on Ebay, I use medium or large for size. Most times large.

Simple, like me...

Off for another home brew.