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Webb Sledge

Webb Sledge

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One of my other hobbies besides cars is photography. It was raining a few weeks ago, so I went out and shot some pictures, and thought you might like to see them. Here they are, shot on Kodak 400 with a Canon EOS Elan 7E through a Canon 100mm USM macro & a Canon 28-105mm USM II.


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Very nice, and a few (1,3,7)that deserve framing!
 
Very cool! I hope you don't mind, but I did a quick "save as background" on the closeup of the shifter.

All of them look great. You have a real talent there!
 
Another great illustration of what a beautiful car the TR6 truly is!
 
Very Nice - I think your wasting your time turning wrenchs - Do you do any computer work ? With photos like these, a decent scanner and Adobe Photoshop or Corel Photopaint you could be on to the real deal!
 
Beautiful pics Webb. I agree with others here. You could make money with those.
 
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Very Nice - I think your wasting your time turning wrenchs - Do you do any computer work ? With photos like these, a decent scanner and Adobe Photoshop or Corel Photopaint you could be on to the real deal!

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Thanks everybody /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grouphug.gif, that means a lot. I have Photoshop, which I used to tweak those a little bit to bring that back to the "crispness" of the original printed image. My scanner is horrible, and those were done by Kodak at 256dpi, instead of my scanner's 72dpi.

As for being a photographer, I'd do it in a second, along with mechanic-ing (I'm not sure which I like more...), but I'm not to sure who would pay me for pictures /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif I'd say a magazine, but there are none near me, and you pretty much have to know the editor or be a fairly well known photographer to be hired to shoot for one. Plus if anyone wants shots of their own personal car, they could go out and do it with their own camera, time and materials just as well as me.
 
Very nice pics /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif - but you should really avoid posting 250k+ images on the forum.

This has been an issue in the past so to rehash it briefly: a good size image for the forums is 400-640 pixels wide and under 100k. You can link the smaller images to your full-size ones off the forum.

For example - this image was originally 800x552 and 225k long, taking 90 seconds to load 28.8k connection (a whopping 13 minutes for the whole series). Resized to 640x480 and saved with a reasonable amount of compression the image is only 54k long and loads in 20 seconds with the same connection (3 minutes for the whole series).

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Resized to 640x480 and saved at 85% with Thumbs+,
or about a "7" quality with Photoshop.


Thanks - Scott
'77 MGB/Miata/Forum-Moderator
 
I'll keep that in mind, but I figured I was showing love to all the dial-uppers by resizing them to 800x600. Originally they are 1280x????.
 
Well dimension is one thing of course - file-size is another. For example: this is the same 800x600 picture saved at 75% compression using Thumbs+ (probably a 5 or 6 in Photoshop). It isn't that much different looking, but the file-size is 60k rather than the original 225k.

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ANother trick I use on occasion is to place the photo into anAdobe Illustrator document and, with it selected go to "Save For The Web" in the FILE Menu - you'll get a new window showing the image and at the upper right you'll see the control panel for this function - ignore the "setting" list, choose "JPEG" for the type, default for the rest of the settings, "Optimized" should be checked and then there is a small button just to the right of the file type list with an arrowhead pointing right - Click it and you get a dropdown which sghould have an entry "Optimize to File Size" - Take that option and when the next window comes up enter a suitable number - in this case I think 85 or 90K is about right for posting here - it will process this and then you just click the "Save" button at the upper right , fill in the name and path you want to save it as/to and the optimized jpeg will be saved -

Seems like a lot to do, but the quality of the original is unchanged, just the file size - Don't ask me how it works - I think it's sorcery, but IT DOES WORK! To check this, save the optimized JPG under a different name in the same directory as the original and then compare file sizes in the directory listing - Then place tyhe two images side by side and compare them - It's astonishing.

Oh Yeah, I'm using Version 10, but the same feature is avalable in 9.0 -

And Webb, are you sure that 72 dpi is the max your scanner will do? - Those photos look awfully crisp to be scanned at 72 dpi - I would think that about any scanner available today can be adjusted wayyyyyy on up there in resolution, to the point of ridiculous overkill...

Anyway, you have a real eye for it - keep on top of it, and I'd be interested in seeing some of your images with some of the effects filters available in Photoshop applied to them - Some of the artistic filters like watercolor, pen and ink, conte crayon, film grain, etc. can give you really nice results and are certainly fun to play with - As to getting into the business - you're young and that's in your favor - Digital art and it's related fields are going to be some of the hottest occupations in the coming years - Get in on the ground floor and when you're my age (NOT young) you can make a nice living sitting behind a desk instead of carrying it around.

Good luck!

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Webb, One last thing - Do you know how many people would see your photos if they were posted on the Internet?

Try looking into some photosharing sites such as Flickr

www.flickr.com

Sherlock posts his pics there and so do I - It's free and it's a great way to get your stuff out there for people to see.

If you have your own website/page you can show off even more..And don't forget Joe Hash Triumph - You could really jazz up his website with some shots as nice as these - I think your boss would love it..

Don't "underate" yourself as far as being able to "get in the game" - you can do and be anything you want if you apply yourself -
 
SWEEEEEEEEEET! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbsup.gif /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbsup.gif Great pics Webb.
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Webb, One last thing - Do you know how many people would see your photos if they were posted on the Internet?

Try looking into some photosharing sites such as Flickr

www.flickr.com

Sherlock posts his pics there and so do I - It's free and it's a great way to get your stuff out there for people to see.

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Sounds like a winner! I've made a sight there, now I just hope somebody who wants some pictures will look at them!
 
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