I upload photos from my iPhone or iPad and I get an option to upload a certain resolution without changing the original. Is there no such option when uploading from a laptop?
I keep only those photos I want to keep, so to speak, and I keep them in high res because I can always resize down at a later date if I want to. As soon as I have uploaded here, I delete the resized version. I delete anything I have not processed to final (90%), and I clear my phone too. The rest is so much clutter. I also store my shots in albums - garden, forest, dogs, etc. (I don't understand those who keep thousands of shots with no organisation and can then never find anything again.)
To share with people other than here, I use Google photos. It's very simple, free within limits and so many people have Google accounts already. Once you've uploaded, you can put shots into different albums for specific people or groups of people, adding descriptions to help. Proper photo books are great for the non-tech savvy, though.
More of the same but new flowers are still coming at the end of October, despite a proper frost earlier in the month. They're just begging to be photographed.
Starting with a couple of Rudbeckia
Calendula
Opening Helenium bud
A lucky shot when a Drone Fly flew into frame
Back-lit Welsh Poppy
Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
What protocol do you use? Do you keep the original large file and copy the file and reduce the size to share here?
I use a similar protocol to @NormandyLiz. My SLR produces image files between 20 to 30MB so after a shoot I sit down with a cuppa and go through them all (I use an Epson viewer) and immediately delete any that are blurred, blown or just crap (usually about 75% of the shots). I note down any that I want to view and edit on the computer and make my final choices there. After this process I always try to clear down my photo card but only after I have saved any good ones to the PC hard drive. So I always save the finished 'jpeg' to post on here or send via email, phone etc. and the original 'raw' file. I backup periodically to an external hard drive but that would also include all my other documents too.
I use Photoshop Elements 2018 to crop, reduce & enhance my images. It always amazes me that a perfectly good image for use on the forum can be around 500kB whereas the original was 60X that size.
Clay soil - Cheshire/Derbyshire border. I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
LunarSea said: My SLR produces image files between 20 to 30MB so after a shoot I sit down with a cuppa and go through them all (I use an Epson viewer) and immediately delete any that are blurred, blown or just crap (usually about 75% of the shots). I note down any that I want to view and edit on the computer and make my final choices there. After this process I always try to clear down my photo card but only after I have saved any good ones to the PC hard drive.
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To share with people other than here, I use Google photos. It's very simple, free within limits and so many people have Google accounts already. Once you've uploaded, you can put shots into different albums for specific people or groups of people, adding descriptions to help. Proper photo books are great for the non-tech savvy, though.
Starting with a couple of Rudbeckia
Calendula
Opening Helenium bud
A lucky shot when a Drone Fly flew into frame
Back-lit Welsh Poppy
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
I use a similar protocol to @NormandyLiz. My SLR produces image files between 20 to 30MB so after a shoot I sit down with a cuppa and go through them all (I use an Epson viewer) and immediately delete any that are blurred, blown or just crap (usually about 75% of the shots). I note down any that I want to view and edit on the computer and make my final choices there. After this process I always try to clear down my photo card but only after I have saved any good ones to the PC hard drive. So I always save the finished 'jpeg' to post on here or send via email, phone etc. and the original 'raw' file. I backup periodically to an external hard drive but that would also include all my other documents too.
I use Photoshop Elements 2018 to crop, reduce & enhance my images. It always amazes me that a perfectly good image for use on the forum can be around 500kB whereas the original was 60X that size.
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful
Done better than ever this year after it got chopped back when the June/July flush had finished.
I play with plants and soil and sometimes it's successful