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Just Plane Noise wrote:

On Fri, 27 Jul 2007 10:56:35 -0700, John Meyer
wrote:

In article ,
ck (Just Plane Noise) wrote:

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Say,

Are you resizing these pictures before posting? Those are some very
severe compression artifacts which destroy the image quality. And what
lens are you using? The U-2 pictures especially show a lot of purple
fringe.



They're not only being resized and compressed, but I also have to do
other stuff since many were backlit. The original image of the first
U2 pic was 3872 by 2592, and the purple fringe is evident in it when I
first cropped it to just the part of the image containing the U2
(about 16__ by 11__) , which I then resized to 1280 X 1024. The image
was then compressed for posting. Still, it actually looks a bit
better than the original in some respects.

The problems you're seeing may be more a matter of what the 75-300 mm
Sony (Minolta) lens can or can't do at full extension, with a
particularly poor light situation, instead of compression being at
fault.

Got any tips for improvement?

Yeah, the purple fringing is a lens thing. A lot of consumer zooms have
that problem. So I was curious about what lens. There are some software
solutions that can reduce the effect. Here's a method for Photoshop:
http://creativebits.org/photography/...urple_fringing

The rest of what I see comes from over-compressing the JPG. I'm not too
familiar with the Sony A100 and how it saves JPGs, assuming you're not
shooting RAW. The lighting conditions are obviously poor! You can
recover a lot more from a RAW file than from a JPEG which is already
compromised by nature. I would say to avoid processing your JPGs as much
as possible and to compress them less. Especially if you're posting in
yEnc you can get away with bigger files.

What a shame about that accident. Why risk a formation landing? What's
the point?

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One is always considered mad when one perfects something that others can
not grasp. - Ed Wood