'Light Snow' ... in a digital darkroom.

[Wild Wassa]

When I went outside today ... I could smell smoke from burning Eucalyptus oil. I walked up a hill and saw it, more smoke.

Holding the high ground ... is what traditional landscape photography is all about.

'The Looming Presence of Mount Tennant' ... from a hot, smokey hill near home, Mount Stromlo.





When I was taking the shot, the heat shimmer was extraordinary. It was beautiful. It was far more impressive to the eye, than the cold objective, rapid part of a second recording, that the camera afforded. I should have used a DSLR with an 8x ND filter to try to capture the ambience. Next-time ... Young Grasshoppers.

Warren.

[Wild Wassa]

Two new images both using grunge stock.

'Devil on One Shoulder' ... is about whether I should give up yacht racing and spend more time wandering in the bush. I still can't make up my mind. The image is of the sea cliffs ar Wattamolla.





'Untitled' ... I climbed from the Buchan River to the top of the Gelantipy Plateau the other day. I like walking in the bush and across paddocks and chatting to the sheep and the cows. I like walking alone just doing photography. Bushwalking was once called, "the poor man's holiday" ... if the person who coined that phrase back in the 1920's had only ever known about digital photos and post processing digital images, I think his bush walks would have been far more affordable.





Warren.

[GB1]

Warran - very neat effects. Very artistic, and they work well. Only thing I could suggest is to compress them a bit before posted (linking) as they're taking forever to download (at least for folks with moderate DL speeds like me!). Some are over a megabyte and a little compression wouldn't affect the quality much it at all but would drop the size significantly.

It's hard to choose favorites but the Smokey and the Glazing shots are really incredible...... you could print these out and definitely have an art opening with them. Show them around, someone will bite!

G

[Wild Wassa]

GB1, G'day.

I didn't think about the compression aspect. I always post PNG's out of habit, trying to keep the image quality high because I know what Photobucket does to even the PNG's and they (Photobucket) have been even more horrific when I've posted JPEG's. I'll change my compression ... sorry about that.

Thankyou for your encouragement about having an exhibition. I've signed several contracts with the National Gallery of Australia for them to collect and display my art.

On this site members of the PR Forum get to see my photographic images well before they'll be stuck away in the bowels of NGA's repository ... never to be seen again.

Over winter, which is looming quickly here in the mountains, I was going to bring my PR gallery up to date. I would have submitted PNGs there as well. Please don't say you would prefer JPEGs?

Warren.

[GB1]

GB1, G'day.

I didn't think about the compression aspect. I always post PNG's out of habit, trying to keep the image quality high because I know what Photobucket does to even the PNG's and they (Photobucket) have been even more horrific when I've posted JPEG's. I'll change my compression ... sorry about that.

Thankyou for your encouragement about having an exhibition. I've signed several contracts with the National Gallery of Australia for them to collect and display my art.

On this site members of the PR Forum get to see my photographic images well before they'll be stuck away in the bowels of NGA's repository ... never to be seen again.

Over winter, which is looming quickly here in the mountains, I was going to bring my PR gallery up to date. I would have submitted PNGs there as well. Please don't say you would prefer JPEGs?

Warren.

Warren - Sadly, I wouldn't know the hard core technical differences between PNG and JPEG other than they're both better than GIFs, which limit you to 256 colors and hence stink for photo images. I know PNG has the ability to set the alpha bit for transparency, something JPEG can't do.

I have a few images scanned to TIF, so I saved as three type files and resulting file sizes - PNG (1.01 MB), JPEG no compression (446 KB), and JPEG 10 percent compression (194 KB). I save them in Corel PhotoPaint.

Here they are - can you see a difference? Besides a very, very slight change when I switched back and forth between the JPEG no compression and 10% compression, I can't see any discernible delta.

But it could also depend on the image.





PNG (1.01 MB) below




JPG (446 KB) below




JPEG (194 KB) below