^ i like the car trim. It sort of frames the photograph.

i didnt intend the have the trim in there, but once i looked at the result i kind of liked the perspective, so i left it in. :)

Use a proper program to do your editing. i.e. Photoshop and you shouldn't have to worry about loss in quality when you resize for web.

another thing that might cause JPEG compression artifacts is the site that's hosting your pics... they might have a limit to bandwidth so they may cut down the quality of your pics.

otherwise I don't see why one should complain about stuff like that when it can easily be resolved by doing it the proper way.

Plus, I haven't seen any "artifacts" in any of your shots, Andreas, so I'm not too sure why you think it's degrading the quality of your pics.

Either I have a crappy monitor or you guys are simply too paranoid about trivial things. lol :p

*edit*, a quick USM after resizing usually brings back the sharpness you lost after resizing.

With my pic, it was just that the color saturation went down a whole lot... Its actually probably because I forgot to change color profiles before I saved

heheh shhh :P

Actually im just being silly because i want to buy an lcd 19 inch samsung 940bf moniter.

as far as I know, if you use Photoshop the default colorspace is AdobeRGB, and when you view a photo saved in that colorspace the colors are usually off and less saturated.

What I've learned is that if you want to use your pics for web, convert to sRGB and save for web, and that usually does the trick in retaining your original colors.

Correct. Convert to sRGB first then tweak the colours you wanna see on the web

^^^...or just shoot in sRGB.

Or shoot AdobeRGB because it holds more colours for print.

Some pics from canada day here on Salt Spring and Galiano Island.

http://www.blackflag4x4.com/jstocks/...ianosunset.jpg

http://www.blackflag4x4.com/jstocks/...Untitled-1.jpg

http://www.blackflag4x4.com/jstocks/...acobcanday.jpg

I just shoot in sRGB since I never shoot in RAW.

http://static.flickr.com/70/181318937_18106d028b_o.jpg

First shot since the owls pretty much, I'm rusty as hell and I neeeeeed practice!

hey long time no post eh?

that's a crazy shot. haha

I read this section daily.. just never have much to post.

Totally random pic from yesterday down at Belcarra... I was messing around with something on the cam, accidentally hit the shutter release, and got this shot. I was going to toss it, but for some reason, I decided I liked it, so it stayed.

http://www.2k4civic.com/albums/shoot...s/IMG_6916.jpg

i know it was an accidental shot, but the fact that the "mid" ground is the only part in focus makes it poor in my opinion, if the closest area was in focus or the farthest, i think you'd have a much better picture.

yes, i know it was an accidental photo, do not take it the wrong way.

Having the farthest area in focus would be even worse.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...s/PICT8537.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...s/PICT8509.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...s/PICT7936.jpg

^^ :D I love the last one

http://members.shaw.ca/solar_monkey/photos/boatbw.jpg

http://members.shaw.ca/solar_monkey/photos/asics.jpg

http://members.shaw.ca/solar_monkey/...ldingwater.jpg

Bildo: I'm not sure how long you've been shooting, but from the look of those 3 pics, I think you need to play around with Depth of Field. The first one is distracting (for me, anyways) because nothing is sharp, the second is distracting because everything is sharp. As far as the 3rd pic goes, I kind of like that one.

not long, i started last week with my d50.

Thanks for the advice though, i really need it.

i think i should shoot at a lower aperature because i was shooting at around F8 the entire day.

haha this dude is hilarious, he used to come by The Source, when i worked there [back when it used to be called Radioshack]

you mean shoot at a larger aperature (smaller f-stop)

yeah what you said. :)