why do my pictures stink ?

[btomlinson]

I'M confused. When I post pics on here from my home PC and view them in the thread they look terrible. they look great on my PC at work and when viewing them on my computer offline here at home... Anyone have any ideas ? Both machines are running XP,yadda yadda... I'm confused

[SBR_RV]

it doesnt matter wather your running XP or another program. its could be the screen resolution. im guessing your resolution at home is smaller than the one at work, there for, when it loads the picture, it resizes it to make it fit into the window.
(anyone correct me if im wrong)
try posting a picture in this thread.

[btomlinson]

test

[jasonflier]

Looks perfectly fine to me

[Breakstuff5050]

same here, lookin good

[ShortBus]

Looks great.

[Redneck Shaun]

I wish my pictures looked that good. LOL.......

[Matchless]

Looks fine to me Brian?

[btomlinson]

Oh well... I guess if they look good on yawl's end everythings good... Its just one of those things


Thanks fellas

[JimC-MD]

Hi Brian,

I am always shy to offer constructive feedback to someone I do not know. Please take this in a good way! The picture does look good. The reason you may not feel it is awesome could be because of the focal point of the picture. The focal point (or center) appears to be around the area of the right wingtip. If you look at the sharpness of that part of the airplane as opposed to the fuse and the left tip in the wing, I think you will see what I am. The right tip has sharper lines and more detail back there than the rest of the picture. Shooting a frame with the camera set to give maximum depth of field (largest range of focal clarity) helps to hide some issues. Many cameras will autofocus on the center of the viewer. Being close to an object with this much depth will produce the effect you have unless the subject is directly in the center of the pcture. That could be a setting you can change. Some cameras will look for five or more spots to focus on in the viewer and try to focus on the closest object. This can blur the rest of the photo. I shoot with a D70 and find myself selecting manual focus when I have a difficult shot. Trying to get a whole plane in focus with a large wing can be hard. You need a center focal point and good depth of field. The lighting when the picture was taken appears to have been low but that is hard to tell. I hope you find this information helpful and something to play with as you shoot pictures in the future. Again, it is a good shot, but I think your eye is picking up that it could be better. This reply was only intended to be helpful.

[madmax]

Brian, looks good! Our software here does resize images to fit our forum width, but I think it's something else. Are you using some type of internet "Accelerator" like venturi or something?

JimC! GREAT advice, you know your stuff. You a photog? A TON of guys, including myself could find photo taking advice very helpfull. Thanks for the input dude!

[btomlinson]

Hey Guys Thanks for the advise and JimC-MD thank you for your expert opinion. I think my videocard resolution may be the problem. I installed a PCI 128mb card and more ram to run AFPD. When I try and change my screen resolution I get the blue screen of death. Everything looks fine and it runs AFPD like a champ. The pictures just bother me... Just one of those things


Thanks again for the help fellas