OT-Killing Pop-ups as a webmaster

"Jay Honeck" writes:

In wideangle work, and especially in architectural photography, you
need to get *really* anal about setting the camera level (or learn how
to correct it later). I've actually got a level I can put in my
"flash" shoe; but most of the time I just line up the edges of the
frame with various vertical lines, and get it level enough that way.

Interesting. Photos that Mary takes are always (and I mean ALWAYS) three
degrees "off" to one side or the other. Using Photoshop I always have to
"rotate" the photo back to level.

The next step after that is to learn how to correct for tilts
*forward* and *backwards* (which cause parallel vertical lines to
converge or diverge).

We figure it's something to do with her eyes. (Probably why she can't hit a
baseball, either...)

Could well be.

Lots of the photos really need brightness and contrast adjustment,
too. And I just noticed, looking at photos of the Red Baron suite,
that you seem to be somehow using 300k for a quality of image I can
generally provide with only 60k; that would make a *big* difference to
people on dial-up connections. (And those photos would really benefit
from being shot level, too.)

Yeah, I've learned a lot about down-sizing photos since then. Take a gander
at the Amelia Earhart Suite, and see if the photos aren't more properly
sized?

If anything, they're a bit *larger* than the ones I complained about
earlier. (Not counting the one of the newspaper article; I haven't
played with it, to retain legibility that could need to be rather
large). 367KB to 600KB.

Wow. The one labeled "The bedroom in natural sunlight" (Queen bed in
suite.jpg) is 1.3MB, and still has the EXIF information in it (I see
you shot it at 1/20 second at f2.8 with a Canon S100 :-)). It's also
1600x1200 pixels, not resized to a reasonable screen size; I'd suspect
it of being the camera original file, except that the EXIF info says
Photoshop 7 has been at it.

Maybe the files on the web site (for the Emelia Earhart suite) are not
the ones you think are there?
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