April Photo Challenge - Comments & "John West" Rejects

[Photo Challenge]

Post your comments on the April Photo Challenge Entries here.

Do you have any "rejects", post them here too.
Have fun!

PC

:)

[Regulus]

These three gates are in a stone wall on the edge of the CBD (Devonport, TAS) and I love walking past them on the way to my morning coffee on crisp Spring mornings when the vines bloom.

[leon]

You should have entered them in the April challenge Trevor, quite nice pics mate, and to date you would have been a winner, as there are no entries as yet. :)

Leon :thumbsup:

[Regulus]

I was thinking the same Leon :-0
It has certainly given us all something to think about. A proper challenge.
Don't know that I would feel the glow if I won because I was the only entrant :-)
Anyhoo I have entered one from a series taken at the local sale yard. Not as pretty as the ones below but interesting to me.
This one is a reversal of my entry.

[Derek Klepp]

Trevor I think there will be a late influx,here is another view of the same gates from my entry.

[astronobob]

Crypeeze, Ive gotta find myself a gate, besides, who was the clown that decided Gates as a subject :P ;)

[Regulus]

Well done Bob!!
Please enter, we're feeling a bit out on the sharp end here with just two entries :-)

[astronobob]

Thanx Trevor,, I have done well hey :question: ;)

So here some John Wests from my driving detours today :thumbsup:

Deciding from between two others (not included here) for this months entry, hope have it in a couple o days.

[astronobob]

There's quite a number of ways Weeks, with Canon camera software, you select (not open) photo/s --> select 'export image/s --> Resize Images, eg pixels longside, say 800 -1200 --> then choose Image type, eg Jpg,, --> set Image quality settings, maybe Low Med High & Highest, - could/should be a 'Calculate option' to find the file size which could typically be anywhere from 40-50 Kb to 2-8MB > Limit for IIS is 200Kb's per image.
Other Progs will have variations on 'Resizing' but will be of the same basis, one way or other,
All the best

[Regulus]

Matt (Weekes) - What Bob said.
Still once it is reduced in size it falls apart quickly if you try to enlarge it to see fine detail.
Reducing a 5100kb (5MB) file to 200kb is going to cause some damage. You can, in the resize dialogue, increase the Pixels/Inch from the default of 72 to 100 to try retain some sharpness. You can increase it further but it ups the file size. For example a 1200x800x72ppi will come in around 200kb but upping the ppi to 120 will see it push 500kb
If you reducing large files like the above then set the jpg compression to the minimum (largest file size) or the detail gets destroyed quickly.
PNG file format would give a higher KB size (The above 1200x800x72ppi as jpg is 198kb and PNG is 1.35MB)

Hope this, with Bob's comments help.

[Regulus]

Felt pressured by all the pretty gates to 'fall into line', so I have changed my entry to another from the series below.
Peer pressure victim, me :confused2:

Bob, your environment and it's associated Gates, are a little different to mine, and no need to apologise for setting a challenge, it's been interesting chasing the subject down :-)
Here's another from one of my local drives to a favourite local spot for Astronomy just 10mins up the road.

[Regulus]

Really like that photo u entered Al. Good choice going B&W with it too.
Trev

[astronobob]

Dang, Missed voting sorry, but would have definately given another Vote to Derek's entry, , :thumbsup: :thumbsup: