A few shots...

keving54 · June 16, 2005

Hello,

I know for the most part, duck pics are rather ho-hum. But I liked the compositon of this, they actually seemed to be posing.

Comments welcome...
Regards,
Kevin

Phil U. · June 16, 2005

keving54 wrote:

Hello,

I know for the most part, duck pics are rather ho-hum. But I liked the compositon of this, they actually seemed to be posing.

Actually I think this is really nice. Exposure is spot-on, the light looks great, and I like the composition.

Got the dreaded red X again - I had to load the image url into my browser bar so I could see it.

Phil U. · June 16, 2005

You know, your red X problem is wierding me out. I think I might be on to something. I noticed the URLs you're using to reference the images are looking like this.

http://i.pbase.com/u8/keving54/upload/37371108.IMG_1111web.jpg

I browsed your gallery and found this duck image and the URL was this:

http://www.pbase.com/keving54/image/37371108

I think you are right-clicking on the displayed image and copying the address from "Properties".

Try this approach the next time you post: After uploading your pictures and moving them to whatever gallery you want, browse to the picture and select whatever size you want to display it as. Copy the address out of the address bar and insert it into the post but add the ".jpg" at the end of it (no .jpg, no display). Doing so gives me this (and it seems to work):

keving54 · June 16, 2005

Phil U. wrote:

You know, your red X problem is wierding me out. I think I might be on to something. I noticed the URLs you're using to reference the images are looking like this.

http://i.pbase.com/u8/keving54/upload/37371108.IMG_1111web.jpg

I browsed your gallery and found this duck image and the URL was this:

http://www.pbase.com/keving54/image/37371108

I think you are right-clicking on the displayed image and copying the address from "Properties".

Try this approach the next time you post: After uploading your pictures and moving them to whatever gallery you want, browse to the picture and select whatever size you want to display it as. Copy the address out of the address bar and insert it into the post but add the ".jpg" at the end of it (no .jpg, no display). Doing so gives me this (and it seems to work):

Thanks Phil,

I'll give that a try - the reason I right clicked on the photo and selected 'properties' and then copied the url is because that was the instructions here.
Plu, I just got feedback to sandwich the url with tags, which doesn't seem right to me, does it? I can't imagine everyone is sandwiching their picture posts with these tags. Thanks for your investigation and suggestion! Kevin

tags, which doesn't seem right to me, does it? I can't imagine everyone is sandwiching their picture posts with these tags. Thanks for your investigation and suggestion! Kevin

Phil U. · June 16, 2005

keving54 wrote:

Thanks Phil,

I'll give that a try - the reason I right clicked on the photo and selected 'properties' and then copied the url is because that was the instructions here.
Plu, I just got feedback to sandwich the url with

Yea, that's the way I do it. There's also a button on the editor button-bar (yellow square with mountains in it) that will wrap your URL with the tags. Glad to help!

Harryb · June 17, 2005

Hey Kevin,

A good pic is never ho hum. You did an outstanding job on a very difficult exposure. The white ducks against the dark water is not an easy shot to pull off. The ducks aren't blown out and you also caught some of the water movement and the reflections are great.

The comp is a bit too centered. I would have zoomed out a tad and placed the ducks more towards the upper right as they are moving towards the lower left.

keving54 · June 17, 2005

Harryb wrote:

Hey Kevin,

A good pic is never ho hum. You did an outstanding job on a very difficult exposure. The white ducks against the dark water is not an easy shot to pull off. The ducks aren't blown out and you also caught some of the water movement and the reflections are great.

The comp is a bit too centered. I would have zoomed out a tad and placed the ducks more towards the upper right as they are moving towards the lower left.

Thanks Harry,

I agree about the centering - actually the version I have that I printed IS slightly different and not as centered, and it looks better. I guess I never went back and changed the web version.
Actually I metered for the ducks, and I needed to bring up the shadows and the relections slightly in photoshop.
Thanks for the helpful comments!
Regards,
Kevin

jwear · June 17, 2005

very well done the shot is

and someone after all this time as found an answere to the REDX

Phil