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Eeee! I'd LOVE critique on the photo by the way - aspiring photographer and still-lifes are not my strong suit, so anything would be great

Congratulations on the nice looking plant!

I think your photo is pretty good. The lighting is a little bright, but your depth of field is really good. Almost all the traps are in focus.

Nice VFT Very very green Nice how all your traps grow upwards, I'm Still trying to work out how to make mine do that .. lol

The Picture: I think with having the big trap at the front, but with the focus obviously on the traps behind you have left a big Fuzzy trap in the middle of your picture which leaves me very distracted. The rest of my attention is drawn to either the taller trap at very top of the picture leaning to the left, or the big empty space of soil..

So in my opinion, Plant Looks great, but the picture focus needs a little work. [sorry]

also, If your camera does this, If you set the size of the output picture to be small to begin with [so no need to edit later] you should be able to share the photo directly which would allow us to see which camera and settings you was using for us to give more detailed advice

Thanks for the crit! Much appreciated. <3

Matt: You can use any of my photos on your site if you want, just as long as you give credit. I'll probably take a pic of him every day and blog it, at least for a few months.

Thanks Kayota! I assume that you've seen the blogging feature that I have installed on this site? I have been meaning to use it to blog about my plants. Right now they look the best that they have all season and I want to snap some shots and write about them. Gotta find time soon....

Hehe, I started doing a PhotoDiary of the Plant when I came across this site, Thought it would be cool to have a nice animated gif showing the day by day.. Problem was Someone F'in moved it.. when putting stuff on my desk, and I was gonna start again, but came to terms with what usually happens... TOO LAZY to start again.

I found the blogging feature and started it!

Kayota wrote:I found the blogging feature and started it!

Awesome! I'm glad that someone is finally using it!

I've kinda been using the Introduction thread as a bloging, I thought there would be more people viewing it that way

More pics:


For the blog.

Macro shots:

Congrats on your fine looking plant! Thanks for sharing the pics.

NOW, I REALLY Love the first Macro Shot.. .. very well done
Still unfortunately using .png format.. which is a shame.

why is that a shame? .jpgs ruin image quality from what I've seen. And even if you think they don't... why is that a shame?

See the difference:


JPG


PNG

The JPG is overall a little, but noticeably, blurrier. No thanks.

.bmps take too long to load. So... why is it a shame that I use PNGs, again?

Because jpg,s can hold camera setting information.. and if your pictures are coming out too low quality, you need to change your compression settings.
This image holds Exif Data and was taken with an old camera.. More uptodate cameras hold even more Information on them..
Exif IFD0

* Image Description =
* Camera Make = SONY
* Camera Model = DSC-W1
* Picture Orientation = normal (1)
* X-Resolution = 72/1 = 72
* Y-Resolution = 72/1 = 72
* X/Y-Resolution Unit = inch (2)
* Last Modified Date/Time = 2008:08:28 07:51:13
* Y/Cb/Cr Positioning (Subsampling) = co-sited / datum point (2)
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* Exposure Time (1 / Shutter Speed) = 10/10000 second = 1/1000 second = 0.001 second
* Lens F-Number/F-Stop = 28/10 = F2.8
* Exposure Program = manual control (1)
* ISO Speed Ratings = 100
* Exif Version = 0220
* Original Date/Time = 2008:08:28 07:51:13
* Digitization Date/Time = 2008:08:28 07:51:13
* Components Configuration = 0x01,0x02,0x03,0x00 / YCbCr
* Compressed Bits per Pixel = 8/1 = 8
* Exposure Bias (EV) = 0/10 = 0
* Max Aperture Value (APEX) = 48/16 = 3
Max Aperture = F2.83
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* Light Source / White Balance = unknown (0)
* Flash = Flash fired, compulsory flash mode, return light detected
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* Colour Space = sRGB (1)
* Image Width = 640 pixels
* Image Height = 480 pixels
* Image Source = digital still camera (DSC)
* Scene Type = directly photographed image
* Custom Rendered = normal process (0)
* Exposure Mode = manual exposure (1)
* White Balance = auto (0)
* Scene Capture Type = standard (0)
* Contrast = normal (0)
* Saturation = normal (0)
* Sharpness = normal (0)

Exif IFD1

* Compression = JPEG compression (6)
* Camera Make = SONY
* Camera Model = DSC-W1
* Picture Orientation = normal (1)
* X-Resolution = 72/1 = 72
* Y-Resolution = 72/1 = 72
* X/Y-Resolution Unit = inch (2)
* Last Modified Date/Time = 2008:08:28 07:51:13

And I know this looks like a lot of useless information, but there are some useful parts like
* Exposure Time (1 / Shutter Speed) = 10/10000 second = 1/1000 second = 0.001 second
* Lens F-Number/F-Stop = 28/10 = F2.8
* ISO Speed Ratings = 100

And Date/Time is always a very useful feature when dealing with large numbers of images, I am actually in the process of working on my own Photo Organisation Program that works with the Exif data and an xml database.

My photos don't lost picture quality until I save them as .jpg and upload them to photobucket. Same goes for anyone else's photos that I've put on photobucket.