Black and white or colour?

[Kenn]

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Thurso/2005_0726JulyCaithness20090019-2.jpg

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Thurso/2005_0726JulyCaithness20090019-1.jpg

[Kenn]

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Thurso/2005_0726JulyCaithness20090009-2.jpg

http://i75.photobucket.com/albums/i316/kenliz/Thurso/2005_0726JulyCaithness20090009-1.jpg

Could n't make my mind up on these, your opinions please.

[arana negra]

On my screen they seem a bit out of focus or maybe it is my eyes or a massive crop ? The colour ones are almost like pastels. I like the first in colour and the second black and white it looks quite a dark threatening sky.

[Mystical Potato Head]

Sorry Lizz.out of focus for me too.

[Kenn]

Thanks can see what you mean, almost as though there is some sort of reflection in the camera lens, will have to check the others out and see if they are the same.

[Deemac]

Lizz, your either shooting at far too low a resolution (always shoots full resolution - memory is cheap), your cropping too heavily into your images or they are far too compressed (raise the JPEG quality slider to highest) - or more probably all three issues added together!! (all the blocky artifactes and patterns visible in the images).

This would account for the very soft out of focus look. Bumping up the contrast would also help hugely (especially the black and white conversions).

More practice and avoid all of the above issues will improve your shots hugely.

[Kenn]

Thanks very much Deemac will do some experimenting and see what happens,I tend to shoot from the hip as don't have a very good camera also I rarely adjust the image quality, merely crop the bits I don't want.
I use photobucket, what are others using to edit/store their pictures?

[arana negra]

I store mine on my pc and website, I use 2 to crop rotate adjust both have bits I prefer on the other, Microsoft Picture It and Adobe Photoshop CS3 I am far from expert on anything.