Excellent pencil rendition and a very good web site as well. I wish I had paid more attention during art lessons at school and I might be able to paint now instead of just pen and ink drawing.

Brian

2272×1704 in comparison to 1600×1200 results in roughly a doubling of filesize. The remaining difference that lets you get 4x as many pics on a card is the greater compression the camera applies to “standard” quality images versus “fine” quality images. More compression (i.e. the more data that’s taken out of an image) means lower quality, and some of the compressed data can never be recovered no matter if you save the file as tiff in PS. Its hard to put a rule on it, but a standard image will almost certainly be fine if your final intent is to put images on the web, and probably OK for images at 7×5 and maybe even at A4. However, once you go above that size you’re likely to get pixelation and qualuty loss in printed images.

Absolutely nothing wrong with shooting jpegs, nor anything wrong with shooting “standard” rather than “fine” – they will satisfy 99% of users. The only problem comes if you put your pics on airliners.net or a commercial aviation photo site, and then a potential paying client says that they want to buy the image for a full-page magazine spread or larger format commercial printing.

Andy

Andy

I use my photographs mainly as reference material for doing scale and picture drawings. A4 is about the max. I enlarge the image to draw from and I only started last year to post pictures to the web. (See link below) After much experimenting I found these settings ideal for me, the camera I have and what I want to use the images for.

We have all got different views on how cameras should be set up but I believe it is up to the individual to experiment with their camera until they are happy with the pictures they are getting from it for what ever purpose they want to use the images for.

Keep on snapping. 😀

Brian

But don’t forget there is nothing stopping you saving the first changed image, even if it is only a crop, or a level adjustment as a Tiff or a Photoshop file (PSD). You can then on do as much work as you like, resave as many times as you need, and not have any quality loss issues.

Moggy

That is what I do with my Jpeg images. Save as a Tiff, do whatever I have to do to it with the processing and finally save as a Jpeg. I am more than happy with the finished images.

Brian

Just for clarification both tornados at elvington are now fully complete and assembled, indeed they are both in the hangar nice and dry!

Elvington Aug 05

Brian