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Comment by JBplusThuy on September 18, 2009 at 11:48am

Beautiful fish!

About photos, what you want to do is this:

1) Shoot at the highest resolution (megapixel) level your camera will do. Always.

2) For posting to the web, reduce a *copy* of that photo to a manageable size. Never reduce your original, because even if you use a sharpen tool to make it look sharper again, as mentioned by Fish Chris, it's still not as good as before. The quality reduction from reducing the size and increasing the compression ratio ("lossiness" of the photo, in most formats) is permanent.

You may not notice when viewing the photo on your computer, but if you ever go to make a physical print you will most definitely notice. Even when using a "lossless" format such as PNG, it's best to keep your original pristine and make all edits on a copy. Most cameras save in JPEG format, which uses lossy compression. Higher-end cameras (DSLRs, maybe some more expensive non-SLR digitals) will save in a lossless format such as RAW. Especially if you have a camera that saves in a lossless format, you should definitely keep your original images pristine.

Best,

Jonathan

Comment by seneca b on September 18, 2009 at 8:19am

nice colors

Comment by John Sheehan on June 5, 2009 at 8:19am

LOL !!The names John, Fish Chris...PSCSHILDYis short for Pumpkinseed/Cupsaw Lake? Hildebrandt spoon...Am I wrong to call this a Pumpkinseed as well as a sunny .I've been wrong with ID several times and would like to know what you think!

Anyway thanks for the advice on the camera! I use a Kodak 120 MP It has eight picture size settings I had it on 10.7MP...second largest...Should I try using the largest setting?12 MP...I would like to post sharper photos and thanks very much for your advice and help.I'll go checkout your photos.

Comment by Fish Chris on June 5, 2009 at 8:06am

Hello PSCSHILDY. That is a gorgeous Sunny you caught there !

BTW, just a couple thoughts on the photo.... What kind of camera are you using ? Does it have a macro setting ? If so, you might want to try that.
And the other thing is, no matter how good a camera, or how sharp the original photo, by the time one shrinks the photo file WAY down for the internet, any photo will lose some of its sharpness. I end up re-sharpening ALL of my photos "after" I have shrunk them down for the net. This really helps. It's an easy function in most photo programs too... But be careful, it's easy to oversharpen a photo, making it look really jaggedy, and harsh.

Peace,
Fish