Digital Photography by Jim Becker

[Daniel Rabinovitz]

Say Jim
Is that really you?
Nice article in Wood Online
I just check my email and clicked on the story about Digital Photography and "low and behold", whose name appeared at the end of the article.
I speed read it and got back here to post the thread.
Will read it for "in depth" understanding later but it's good to know that we have a real celebrity in our midst.
Looks good and knows something too!
Cheers
Daniel

[Ken Salisbury]

Say Jim
Is that really you?
Nice article in Wood Online
I just check my email and clicked on the story about Digital Photography and "low and behold", whose name appeared at the end of the article.
Daniel

I guess my compter skills are lacking this morning - wanted to read it - but couldn't find it .

[Don Farr]

How about giving us a link?

[Jim Becker]

Say Jim
Is that really you?
Nice article in Wood Online

Yea...that was me. I wrote that article for the lamented WOOD Extra! E-Zine last year. It's pretty basic, but should help most folks get started. Anyone really interested in this stuff should take a look at John Lucas' article in American Woodturner awhile back. (The JL in Cookesville TN, not the one with the woodworking web site) John, who wrote that article, is a pro photographer in his real life and illustrates easy and inexpensive ways to properly light small projects for "most excellent" photography. The lighting and background are more important than the camera or skill of the photographer. Get that right, and most pictures of our work will look great.

Ken, the direct link to the piece from the WOOD ONLINE newsletter is:

http://www.woodmagazine.com/default....___0___453___1

BTW, the WOOD ONLINE newsletter is a nice one to get...but you need to register for it. It's a twice a month email. It actually might be improper for me to post the link above...but I'm taking the chance since there are provisions on the site to email the story to someone.

[Ken Salisbury]

Ken, the direct link to the piece from the WOOD ONLINE newsletter is:

Thanks Jim -saved it and will read it later. You know how I love to post pictures.

[Aaron Koehl]

Yea...that was me. I wrote that article for the lamented WOOD Extra! E-Zine last year.

Bravo!

_Aaron_

[Don Henthorn Smithville, TX]

Thanks Dan for calling attention to the article. Nice write up, Jim. I'll go back and read it again.

[Mike Stanton]

I take pictures of my work also but I make them at 1200x 1600 res.Is there a way to reduce pictures that I already have to put on web? Thanks for any help. Mike

[Jim Becker]

I take pictures of my work also but I make them at 1200x 1600 res.Is there a way to reduce pictures that I already have to put on web? Thanks for any help. Mike

Just re-edit them locally to the size you desire and then upload them again with the same file names to replace the existing images.

[Wendell Wilkerson]

Just re-edit them locally to the size you desire and then upload them again with the same file names to replace the existing images.

Do you have suggestion on software to do this? I tried to resize a picture I took at the highest resolution (2592 x 1944) on my Canon S50 down to 640X480 so I post it here on the Creek. The result looked horrible. All kinds of artifacts and pixelation occured. I used the Microsoft Photo Editor program that comes with Office. I know, I know that what I get for using a Microsoft product , but it's the only thing I've got right now.

Wendell

[Ken Salisbury]

Do you have suggestion on software to do this? I tried to resize a picture I took at the highest resolution (2592 x 1944) on my Canon S50 down to 640X480 so I post it here on the Creek. The result looked horrible. All kinds of artifacts and pixelation occured. I used the Microsoft Photo Editor program that comes with Office. I know, I know that what I get for using a Microsoft product , but it's the only thing I've got right now.

Wendell

Wendall - e mail me 1 pic and let me see what ya got.

[Julie Wright]

Say Jim
Is that really you?
Nice article in Wood Online
I just check my email and clicked on the story about Digital Photography and "low and behold", whose name appeared at the end of the article.
I speed read it and got back here to post the thread.
Will read it for "in depth" understanding later but it's good to know that we have a real celebrity in our midst.
Looks good and knows something too!
Cheers
Daniel

Thanks for the article

[John Miliunas]

Way to go! Nice article, Jim! Or, now that you're famous, should it be: Mr. Becker?

[Mark Singer]

Jim,
Thats Great!!! Glad to see one of our guys doin' good!

[Tyler Howell]

We knew him when!