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For my first submission, instead of going out and taking photos (oh crap its hot) I thought I'd take the lazy option of posting a couple of photos taken long ago that I found on my computer.

On with the photos:
#1


#2


A note on these two images. They were scanned from a F60 film (remember that stuff?) SLR. However, they look alot different from the developed versions. In gerneral, the scanner has made them alot flatter (particularly #1) and the colour and tone is different by some margin. I tried to correct this in PS but it only seemed to make it worse (read: artificial)

#3


#4


These two are from a Nikon CP3700 P&S digital. Its almost completely auto controlled which leaves little for creativity.

cont...

Am I right in assuming you can only include 4 images per post?

Finally, #5

http://users.bigpond.net.au/limau/b&w1jpg.jpg <- IMG tags won't work

This was taken in a school photography class with god knows what equipment. I developed the film, photo myself. While an interesting learning experience, I don't think I'll ever develop another roll of film again. The laborious and repetitive nature would annoy me very quickly.

All comments are welcome.

hi Dizz - I particularly like image #3 - this sure is a 'different perspective'

DiZZ wrote:http://users.bigpond.net.au/limau/b&w1jpg.jpg<- IMG tags won't work

DiZZ. You're right, but I like a challenge (=I need a life ). Did a little experimenting. Seems the & isn't liked. Replaced it with %26 which in HTML speak (or hex ASCII - take your pick) is the same as a &. See your pic embedded below.



Now I'll never use a & in a filename again.

Edit: Forgot to mention. I also really like #3. Very creative.

Cheers

#3 does it for me too DiZZ

Chris

DiZZ

One other point. Be mindfull of your audience. While I, like many here, have broadband there are a lot who still use modems. These files are way too large to be embedding (eg the last one weighs in around 1Mb). I try to keep my pics no more than 200K and resize them in PS to be at most 1000 pixels on the widest dimension plus I use jpg to compress. That way they'll load heaps faster and we get to see your work that little sooner.

For more discussion on this see the poll & discussion inthis thread.

Cheers

Thanks for the comments everyone.

Stubbsy, I'll try and be more wary of image sizes in the future. As I'm sure you know, theres a trade off between image size and quality against file sizes, the settings I chose were the best for each image while keeping sizes what I considered reasonable.
I have no idea why the b&w one is more than a meg. I'm thinking I forgot to convert it to grey scale before saving.