Though I admit, it’s more like blind luck, plus a bit of tweaking on the computer. My husband had changed the settings on the camera and didn’t change them back. I didn’t notice until I uploaded the pictures, that everything was so dark, they were nearly black. Thankfully, that can be lightened. There’s nothing you can do, if it’s the other way around!
Oh, you haven’t seen my play with exposure, contrast, and saturation settings!! Plus, correcting the color histograms will fix a lot of “blow put” issues, but I’m not good with that anymore.
I used to know everything about manual SLR cameras. DSLR has made me forget ALL of it!! If I get a decent pic in anything other than Auto mode, it’s completely by accident!!
I tried to get into that and could never figure it out! I use the preprogrammed settings on the DSLR. Usually the speed setting. Sometimes the landscape one (or whatever it’s called. Lol) I found those gave me better images than using auto.
When it comes to modifying images, I try to do as little as possible. I always resize now, for the smaller file sizes. I wish I’d realized how quickly we would run out of space on the free WordPress account, doing that! I often crop, and sometimes use the auto fix settings on my software, though that frequently goes way overboard. After added a 1 pixel border and our URL, that’s it. I try to keep things as out-of-the-camera as u can.
In case ypu don’t know, there is a wp Export tool under the Admin features. I do that then delete old media files. But, overall, I save to hard drives, flash drives or the cloud – depends on my mood.
I figured there was something like that available now, but every time I think of how many photos and posts I’d have to go through, it just feels so overwhelming!!!
I post too many pictures.
(As I just finish uploading another 18 to do a break baking post… LOL)
The export tool has been there since I came over (2010) but it’s buried. I only know about it because I was part of the group that imported our content when Vox shut down.
I can’t recall what format the export id. I know the last time I did it I had to get fb Support involved.
Now I keep all my originals offline and remember “wp is for sharing, not for storage.”
Ah, I must have been thinking of something else in the new editor. I haven’t had much change to experiment.
When I was almost out of space, I put images on Flickr and embedded them, but Flickr changed their system to a limited number of files, rather than limited amounts of data. When I very quickly reached the limits of that, I bit the bullet and bought a WP upgrade. I wanted the domain name and other extras, anyhow.
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WOW… pro shot!!
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Thanks!
Though I admit, it’s more like blind luck, plus a bit of tweaking on the computer. My husband had changed the settings on the camera and didn’t change them back. I didn’t notice until I uploaded the pictures, that everything was so dark, they were nearly black. Thankfully, that can be lightened. There’s nothing you can do, if it’s the other way around!
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Oh, you haven’t seen my play with exposure, contrast, and saturation settings!! Plus, correcting the color histograms will fix a lot of “blow put” issues, but I’m not good with that anymore.
I used to know everything about manual SLR cameras. DSLR has made me forget ALL of it!! If I get a decent pic in anything other than Auto mode, it’s completely by accident!!
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I tried to get into that and could never figure it out! I use the preprogrammed settings on the DSLR. Usually the speed setting. Sometimes the landscape one (or whatever it’s called. Lol) I found those gave me better images than using auto.
When it comes to modifying images, I try to do as little as possible. I always resize now, for the smaller file sizes. I wish I’d realized how quickly we would run out of space on the free WordPress account, doing that! I often crop, and sometimes use the auto fix settings on my software, though that frequently goes way overboard. After added a 1 pixel border and our URL, that’s it. I try to keep things as out-of-the-camera as u can.
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In case ypu don’t know, there is a wp Export tool under the Admin features. I do that then delete old media files. But, overall, I save to hard drives, flash drives or the cloud – depends on my mood.
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I figured there was something like that available now, but every time I think of how many photos and posts I’d have to go through, it just feels so overwhelming!!!
I post too many pictures.
(As I just finish uploading another 18 to do a break baking post… LOL)
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lol. I mainly repost memes.
The export tool has been there since I came over (2010) but it’s buried. I only know about it because I was part of the group that imported our content when Vox shut down.
I can’t recall what format the export id. I know the last time I did it I had to get fb Support involved.
Now I keep all my originals offline and remember “wp is for sharing, not for storage.”
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Ah, I must have been thinking of something else in the new editor. I haven’t had much change to experiment.
When I was almost out of space, I put images on Flickr and embedded them, but Flickr changed their system to a limited number of files, rather than limited amounts of data. When I very quickly reached the limits of that, I bit the bullet and bought a WP upgrade. I wanted the domain name and other extras, anyhow.
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