Sunday, April 08, 2007

Sunday Photo Blogging: Playing Around with the New Camera




Manhattan, Good Friday morning, April 6, 2007.
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11 comments:

Jarred said...

Those are some great pictures, Andy.

11:08 AM
Jess said...

Nice photos. I think the upcoming trip promises a nice photo travel journal with that new camera in your hands! Or will the cats be doing the photos while you drive? :)

12:31 PM
Jade said...

Nice pictures, looks like your cats across America tour should be full of visuals for us, right?

1:44 AM
Gino said...

nice shots!

5:21 AM
Andy said...

Wow, if Jade and Jess approve -- er, no offense, Jarred and Gino (and, HEY! ALLITERATION, COOL!), Jade and Jess are actual photographers -- then I guess it's okay! : )

The one thing I really don't like is that the screen on this mac is so small that it's really hard to edit photos; the available window in the editing program means you can't have a very big photo at all and see the whole thing at once, so you kind of have to guess.

7:19 AM
Jade said...

Andy - what is the editing program? The reason I ask is that you should be able to zoom in and out to view the entire image regardless of the picture size. In Photoshop there is a zoom button in the control panel on the left, but you can also hit Ctrl- or Ctrl+ to zoom in and out (in Applespeak that would be OpenApple- or OpenApple+...do they still call that key OpenApple?) You can zoom a 5x7.5 300 dpi (or 1500 pixels x 2250 pixels) down to a 25% view to have the entire image show on the screen.

By the way, nice new photo of yourself too, you look all cool and relaxed :)

7:30 PM
Andy said...

The program is Olympus Master 2, it came with the camera.

No, the problem is the laptop. I only got the 13 inch screen, and so the window in the program that is available for editing -- because you have the editing toolbar open and so forth -- is pretty constricted. : (

7:34 PM
Jade said...

Physical screen size shouldn't restrict what you can view on the screen - can you increase the monitor's resolution so it'll fit more pixels on the screen? Or, if your editing window has that filmstrip at the bottom of it taking up all the space maybe there is a way to close it. (I'm looking at a screen shot of the software online) There really should be a way to reduce the viewing size of the image so the whole thing shows without having to make the image itself smaller. Or, if you don't already have it, look into iPhoto or Photoshop Elements - both programs have a much larger workspace and the ability to zoom out.

8:53 PM
Andy said...

Oh, I think I was unclear. I can certainly say whether I want to view the photo at 100% or 50% size or whatever. By reducing it, I can see the "whole" photo in the editing screen. But at 100% size, no, I can't see the whole thing in the editing window...and, as I'm sure you know, for balance and content and so forth, sometimes you need to be able to see the WHOLE THING at its real size. Or, maybe I'm just weird. (Duh.)

9:14 PM
Andy said...

PS, I have iPhoto. It seems to suck.

9:14 PM
Jade said...

I've only used iPhoto myself a couple times at my inlaws to burn some of their photos for me - my inlaws seem to like it, but then again... they aren't really the editing type.

Adobe Photoshop Elements is a good slimmed down version of Photoshop and is much less expensive (last I priced it, $120 vs. $600 for the "real thing") I've always had full versions of Photoshop through my jobs, but I did try Elements for a bit and it seemed really good.

I do know what you mean by seeing the whole picture. Personally I hardly ever have the image at it's real size, but I tend to have very large files, and 100% view would require an 11x14 or 16x20 screen... I'm always working at a reduced percentage, but I do bring it up as large as I can without cutting anything off in the window.

3:04 AM

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