My photos are all a bit crappy, great when taken but lacking definition when uploaded, any ideas what Im doing wrong

Thanks all

Craig

Mine always are, I found instead of being clever, just need outdoor lighting, macro lens and practise.
Some of the others use light tents and specialised kit. Hopefully they can be more helpful.

Hi Craig,

An example might help us work out what is going wrong. Do they look ok on the camera and on your PC? Where are you uploading to?

Mine sometimes come out not so good because I'm too close to the figures.

Quote from: paulr on 29 September 2014, 06:51:21 PM
Hi Craig,

An example might help us work out what is going wrong. Do they look ok on the camera and on your PC? Where are you uploading to?

They look great on  PC and iphone, but I have to reduce them to upload and they become pixelated when you zoom in

I think you are reducing the size too much when you upload the photos.

If the initial photo looks good, then you have achieved the first step, which is taking a good photo of a tiny subject.

The next step is to crop the photo so that you get rid of the extra bits around the photo, this is a good way of dropping the total size of the photo, and focuses the photo on the good bits.

Where are you uploading the photos to? Does it have a strange small file limit?

I use Google Picassa, which used to be really good, but it has recently 'upgraded' me to Google Plus and now its a bit too photo-bucket like.

I tend to resize my photos to about 800 pixels across (from a starting image of over 4000 pixels) which still look good (this size can be too big for 10mm and show lots of mistakes!)

can you point us at some examples?

The pics I take on my iphone, I crop them and email them to myself to get the resize option, medium is always too large so I have to use small. I think I will try downloading them to my PC directly then use photo suite to get the size I'm after, I'll let you know how I get on, an example would be my viking berserkers on the non Pendraken option, thanks guys

Where is Techno when you need him?

He could probably help but you might need to explain what a smartphone is first though

Quote from: Fenton on 30 September 2014, 08:43:19 AM
Where is Techno when you need him?

He's gone to buy a new hamster... 

When you reduce the size of a JPG, you can also reduce the quality - saves even more space but makes the picture more pixellated. If you reduce the size more than once, you multiply the reduction in quality. Always go back to the original if you choose to reduce the size of a JPG a second time, and make sure quality is set to 80% or better in any case.

Quote from: Leon on 30 September 2014, 02:20:18 PM
He's gone to buy a new hamster... 

WHAT - with 20 Dogs, and an entire grand national field of Horses ?

IanS

Quote from: ianrs54 on 30 September 2014, 04:30:56 PM
WHAT - with 20 Dogs, and an entire grand national field of Horses ?

IanS

Have you ever tried fitting a horse in the back of a PC...?!   

Quote from: Leon on 30 September 2014, 06:37:38 PM
Have you ever tried fitting a horse in the back of a PC...?!   

Yes - the officer was very annoyed

IanS 

 

Quote from: Leon on 30 September 2014, 06:37:38 PM
Have you ever tried fitting a horse in the back of a PC...?!   

very good 

take care

andy