Photography (1)

[graemek]

Thankyou fuselier for your very striking shots of the 'knight' era.
How did you solve the depth of field problem for closeups like that? (very slow speed, minimum aperture??)
At school many years ago we had a book called "the white company" which covered the Crusades Era.
I remember it impressed me hugely.

And you Mark: Thanks for those lovely semi townscapes around Banbury. Very atmospheric.

These Australian Pelicans I snapped as they were strolling along the beach at Crookhaven Heads.( about 50 mins. drive South of here.)
They have the settled "married couple" look about them. Note the footprints.

Dave: I took notice of your guidelines. 800 wide but couldn't make myself compress to less than 66%. Still a pretty small file size tho. (90kb)

for anyone wanting a larger file (1024pixels wide) click here:
static.flickr.com/113/299958993_d99f4201e9_b.jpg

[graemek]

Its easy to see he's noticed me

Large Egret Lake Illawarra NSW Australia.
......enjoy Graemek

[Dave]

graemek said:

Not long ago I learnt off Richard how to adjust displayed sizes like this :
first image tag like this: ,
the original size in pixels of the pic being larger than that.
Since then I've done that a lot including recently comparing maps of NZ & UK (on Belindas NZ Facts thread) to make the scales read the same. (so you could compare the sizes of those countries)
The beauty of it was & is that you don't edit someone else's pic in any way & are able to link it back to its source.

What I'm still not absolutely sure of is whether the adjusted size gets downloaded or the original size

Hi Graeme,

With apologies to you and Mark, I've now corrected and re-credited my original post.

The resizing tag is very useful for photos that are slightly wider than the forum likes but unfortunately, it does not alter the original filesize at all. The dimensions of a 500KB photo may be shrunk nicely but it remains a 500KB file - and the same will apply if you include it in a quote! This is why I've removed the actual photos from my quote in this post.

The only way to fix a photo displayed in the forum (if its filesize is too big) is to recompress it yourself and replace the original in your photobucket (or wherever you store it). An alternative is, of course, to quote the link instead.

Cheers, Dave

[postscript]

Hi fusilllier. At least I now understand your username! Your love of model soldiers!

Peter S.

[postscript]

Excellent photgraphs, Mark which I am sure many of our overseas members will relish.

Peter S.

[Dave]

graemek said:

Dave: I took notice of your guidelines. 800 wide but couldn't make myself compress to less than 66%. Still a pretty small file size tho. (90kb)

for anyone wanting a larger file (1024pixels wide) click here:
static.flickr.com/113/299958993_d99f4201e9_b.jpg

Nice one Graeme, that's the way to do it!

Cheers, Dave

[postscript]

joe said:

dave said:

Hi Joe, thanks for your comments and I'm glad you got to see all the photos OK! Do you use the "Last 30 posts" feature?

Congratulations on reaching your third anniversary at HWI, you really are one of the old-timers now! That's exactly one month more than me (I was probably a lurker when you joined!) Part of the furniture indeed, yes that's what you are and here's to your next three years so here's three cheers for Joe!

Hi Dave,

I use the search feature (under the forum banner) to view the day's posts. I scroll to the bottom and enter 60 in the max. results box.

Thanks for your kind words re my three years...part of the furniture...I reckon I'm a three-piece suite! Yes...another three years!

I really never looked at the filesize of my pictures. I just made sure they fit on the page OK. Will do in future.

Cheers

You do exactly what I do Joe, with possibly one exception. I allow for 30 posts per day i have been away.
Peter S.

[roger]

postscript said:

You do exactly what I do Joe, with possibly one exception. I allow for 30 posts per day i have been away.
Peter S.

Hi Joe and Peter,

Please be aware that the numbers you quote may not always be sufficient. Since the forum began, the average number of posts per day currently stands at a fraction over 19 but it is not unusual for there to be 70 or more. The record, achieved on 25th September 2006, was 118.

I mention this because I am sure you would not want to miss anything!

Roger

[postscript]

Thank you Roger, for pointing out the variations in the number of posts per day.

I was writing of a bald average assessment at 30 a day, but yes, if my absence has been over or near a period when there is a Hayley concert or some other special Hayley news, I do allow a little more.

In fact, which might be a further help to Joe and others, I run a search for the number I think correct and then rapidly browse down until I catch my avatar. If my avatar does not appear I then re-search on a larger number until I see my avatar and know that was the last time I contributed.

This is a side advantage to having an avatar. I need to get around to creating an avatar for AAI because as a result of not having one, I realise the value of the one I have on this site for backpost searching.

Peter S.

[graemek]

OK you guys, What happened to photography?

Here's one of our doggies,Toddy, doing what most of us only dream about.

OK you can keep talking to each other now.
Graemek

[comet]

Hi folks !
Dog On cushion ! (Cushion. Most misssspelt word in English language up there with Restaurant)

Miss spelt is often misssspelt toooo !

There is a pillow case on Ebay with Hayley on it !

You have to enter "Worldwide" in search.

[grant]

postscript said:

Thank you Roger, for pointing out the variations in the number of posts per day.

I was writing of a bald average assessment at 30 a day, but yes, if my absence has been over or near a period when there is a Hayley concert or some other special Hayley news, I do allow a little more.

In fact, which might be a further help to Joe and others, I run a search for the number I think correct and then rapidly browse down until I catch my avatar. If my avatar does not appear I then re-search on a larger number until I see my avatar and know that was the last time I contributed.

This is a side advantage to having an avatar. I need to get around to creating an avatar for AAI because as a result of not having one, I realise the value of the one I have on this site for backpost searching.

Peter S.

Hi Peter

Have I missed something here?!!

There seems to me a very simple way to keep track of posts. I make a note of the number of posts when I log off. Then, when I log on again, I check the number again - if there have been more than 30 I know how many to look for in the search field.

Job done!

Grant

[postscript]

grant said:

Hi Peter

Have I missed something here?!!

There seems to me a very simple way to keep track of posts. I make a note of the number of posts when I log off. Then, when I log on again, I check the number again - if there have been more than 30 I know how many to look for in the search field.

Job done!

Grant

Yes, buit Grant, that number is the number of posts in THAT particular thread! It is not a number of total posts across threads.

So, Grant, yes. If you believe the number is that of all posts, you might well be missing quite a lot!! Or am I a wally? I guess I must be if I'm asking the question
Peter S

[roger]

Hi Peter,

I expect Grant means the total number of posts forumwide which appears in the Info Centre in which case, his method should be fairly reliable.

Roger

[grant]

roger said:

Hi Peter,

I expect Grant means the total number of posts forumwide which appears in the Info Centre in which case, his method should be fairly reliable.

Roger

Thanks Roger!

That is what I meant - obviously I'm a wally for not explaining myself properly!!

Sorry Peter!

Grant

(Hasn't anybody noticed we seem to have gone completely off thread here!

Perhaps, Roger, it might be an idea to create a new thread for these posts about numbers of posts so others users can "do it the easy way")