Skig Takes a Shot at Photography

[Skig]

I was in that field behind the big church

Sorry, this was me, not XR (so annoying when that happens)

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[BluetoothBoy]

I believe 3888x2592 pixels and I didn't resize them or anything

Then stop using imgur as your hosting website. It's what's lowering the quality. Notice how you didn't even use [img width=####] to resize in your posts, and yet there's no page-stretch. This means imgur has severely lowered the quality of the images - you should find a different site. I simply use my Dropbox for image hosting.

[Skig]

Then stop using imgur as your hosting website. It's what's lowering the quality. Notice how you didn't even use [img width=####] to resize in your posts, and yet there's no page-stretch. This means imgur has severely lowered the quality of the images - you should find a different site. I simply use my Dropbox for image hosting.

Ok, I'll update my pictures to Dropbox when I get home tonight. Do you know if it uses a lot of data? I'm on a limited data plan since I live in the middle of nowhere

[BluetoothBoy]

Ok, I'll update my pictures to Dropbox when I get home tonight. Do you know if it uses a lot of data? I'm on a limited data plan since I live in the middle of nowhere

It only uses as much as you upload.

[Skig]

It only uses as much as you upload.

Ok, then it shouldn't be any more than Imgur I guess

[TheTurtorn]

There's an option to enable higher quality images on imgur, click or your name > settings

[Georges]

these look pretty nice!

[Skig]

Here's a bump. I updated the OP too, I was able to up the quality a bit and I made the photos bigger



This isn't skillful or anything but it was funny


Flowers again








A leaf up close

[BluetoothBoy]

Getting better! But in all seriousness, you should look up the rule of thirds.

[Skig]

Getting better! But in all seriousness, you should look up the rule of thirds.

Yeah I did, it seems like a pretty useful thing to use.

Also, is there anything I could try to get the background of some of the photos not to be so blurry?

[BluetoothBoy]

For that, you need to up the aperture setting on your camera. However, when taking shots such as these (close up nature and macro), the background being out of focus is generally desirable.

[QuadStorm]

All these photos are pretty great, keep up the nice work. Also, you should look at some photography guides and stuff online, especially from here to help make your photography better and to give yourself a better understanding of the basics and stuff.

unrelated: About the first 2 pictures in the last post, I'm pretty sure I have seen caterpillars that look exactly like that recently.

[Steve5451²]

Also, is there anything I could try to get the background of some of the photos not to be so blurry?

Use a smaller aperture. Actually, I made a post about the same concept recently.
http://forum.blockland.us/index.php?topic=234126.msg7514679#msg7514679

For that, you need to up the aperture setting on your camera. However, when taking shots such as these (close up nature and macro), the background being out of focus is generally desirable.

yup.

[Treynolds416]

it looks like all of your photos are jpg
Try using .png or some other uncompressed image filetype, I can see the compression in the pictures

[Sirrus]

Find something better to take pictures of.

Even the best flower pics will suffer from the fact that they're flower pic(z).