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09-NOV-2006 Rich

Old Shed *

S. Vermont

Canon EOS 20D
1/1600s f/10.0 at 50.0mm iso800 full exif

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ctfchallenge17-Nov-2006 13:32
Nice photo, reminds me of a building in Port Royal called the Giddy house :).

- Jamdiver
Rod 14-Nov-2006 10:32
Nicely done Rich & the composition looks OK to me, I can't imagine why people would want to make a panorama out of an ole shed.
ctfchallenge12-Nov-2006 03:13
Nice. - RK
ctfchallenge12-Nov-2006 01:00
Right on target with the topic and I agree with the croppng advice. I too have found problems with pixilating/artifacting when uploading here. They look fine on my computer and terrible here. I have always kept my width at 800 pixels or less and still have the problem. Maybe it's the 150K file size that's doing it. Henry
ctfchallenge11-Nov-2006 20:07
Great old shed Rich with lots of texture. I agree a more panoramic view might work better for this placing the shed in the right third to half of the frame - then I think maybe more sky might be needed. CJ
Brent 11-Nov-2006 17:54
Yes Paul, I originally noticed this when I uploaded a wide short image that was like 810 the long way and still easily under 150K. It looked all strange and full of artifacts on PBase despite appearing normal in my viewing programs locally on my computer. A subsequent upload of the image didn't help things. I then trimmed it to 800 on the widest end and it looked worlds better. It seems there is something in the works of these challenge galleries (not PBase as a whole) that makes anything in excess of 800 have to go through some kind of compression even though it still seems to display in excess of 800. Depending on the image, the results can be quite degrading. More and more people are getting broadband these days and storage is getting cheaper. I find myself wishing at some point we will be able to submit images at even 200K. Right now images with a lot of fine texture (bricks, foliage, etc.) have to be made very small to fit quality in 150K. I'm fine with 800 being the maximum because some viewers are using small screen on their notebooks and that helps accommodate them.
Guest 11-Nov-2006 12:59
Thanks for commenting. I don't know if shed was once moved Brent, I know its been there for the last 30 years. I'll play around with the wider crop idea. I usually resize an image to 640 x whatever and then bump the picture quality up or down to stay just under 150 k when saving the image. Rich
Paul 11-Nov-2006 00:21
I never realised that with the 800 pixels Brent, i thought it was an old thing when we all had little screens to save having to scroll across.
Brent 10-Nov-2006 21:12
Well if you go wide Rich; I wouldn't go over 800. It seems PBase does a compression in these challenges if an image is over 800 at all that can have nasty results depending on the image. Took me a while to figure that one out (thought my uploads were getting corrupted somehow).
ctfchallenge10-Nov-2006 18:12
Nice shot, but I agree with Paul about trying a different crop.
--Mary Anne
Paul 10-Nov-2006 09:27
Really good. The level horizon but the shed at an angle works really well. Greatd detail in the daggy old timber too. I'd be tempted to do a different crop as i feel this warrants a panoramic feel. I'd crop off the sky just above the cloud level and lose a fair bit of the grass in the foreground and resize the photo to say 900 pixels wide.
Brent 10-Nov-2006 02:59
That's a beauty Rich. You have nice detail there for such a texture rich image under 150K. This thing somehow looks like it was moved from somewhere else?