I wanted to write about resizing photographs because I see quite a few people placing HUGE image files on forums and web sites. I think that it is totally unnecessary and it discourages people like me who have a dial-up connection to wait for the image or web site to load.
I recommend that you try to keep all of your images 40kb in size or smaller. The photograph that you see here is 350 pixels wide by 293 pixels high. The file size of this image is only 19.6kb which is only half of what I recommend.
You are looking at fresh water pearls so you may want to click on the thumbnail to see a larger version of this image.
I recommend that you keep your images at 400 pixels or smaller on the long side of the photograph. That will allow your images to load quickly on computers that use a dial-up connection for surfing the internet.
In my own opinion, if you can not see the details of your image well when your image is resized to 400 pixels on the long side of the image, then you need to retake the photograph because you probably didn’t have the camera close enough to the subject and/ or you didn’t fill up the entire LCD viewing screen.
Jim Juris
January 4, 2008 at 5:19 am |
Hi Jim,
I have read many of your posts on the jewelry forum and decided to check out your sites too!Just HAD to comment,since i have been on dialup for years and just in Nov was able to get DSL.One of my pet peeves was the huge photos posted,I could never get them to load on my very old computer.So,to come to the point….I love your comment about resizing photos!
thanks,Eva
January 4, 2008 at 9:15 am |
Hi Eva,
Thank you very much for your comment about resizing photographs.
I hope that you learn something new from what I write on the Jewelry Making forum and also from my CameramanJim blog.
Please visit my blog periodically and feel free to ask me questions about photography or to leave comments.
Thank you,
Jim Juris
March 29, 2008 at 5:38 am |
Hello Jim:
I am wondering if you can make a suggestion regarding purchasing a digital camera. I know very little about digital photography but I know what I want to be able to do. My interest is in coin photography, in particular macro photography. I am a coin collector specializing in coin varieties. I want to be able to take excellent photos of coins similar to the following:
http://www.lincolncentresource.com/doubledies/1982ddr1.html
Could you recommend a good camera for taking these kind of real close-up pictures?
March 29, 2008 at 10:09 am |
Hi Jim,
The best advice that I can give to you is to go to by jewelry photography web site and near the bottom of the page you will find some links. One of the links is What To Look For When Buying A Digital Camera. I recommend that you check out that page and follow the advice that I give. This is the page of my web site for that information- http://www.inexpensivejewelryphotography.com/buyingadigitalcamera.html
Some of the reasons that I don’t make any particular digital camera recommendations is because of amount of money that a person is willing to spend on a camera varies from person to person.
Another reason is that the camera has to feel comfortable to use by the buyer of the camera. The only way that you will know if a camera feel right to you is to go to a camera store and hold the camera in your own hands and operate it.
I paid $1,000 for my digital camera, but a lot of people don’t want to spend that much money on a digital camera and they probably couldn’t operate it properly if they did purchase the same camera that I bought. I spent about 12 hours learning how to operate my digital camera after I purchased it.
Even though my ebook is written for jewelry photography the techniques that I write about in my ebook are the same for coin photography.
For example, on the home page of my web site I have a painting of a lighthouse on a piece of wood. The painted area is only about the size of a quarter. Notice all of the detail that you see in that image on the painted wood.
Good luck in purchasing your digital camera. I hope that you find the advice that I give on my web site about purchasing a digital camera to be helpful.