In message ,
John Byrns writes
Hi Terry,

That was my first digital photograph, for some reason it came out
unreasonably dark with the camera on autopilot. The actual scene was
nowhere near as dark looking in reality, as I rechecked it after seeing
the photo. I think the Irfanview processing took the overall brightness
back toward what the actual scene looked like, so that is good.
Unfortunately Irfanview also distorted the colors in the process, making
the reds and browns more orange than they actually were/are. I think
the colors in the original were pretty close to what they should be, the
excess darkness was the main problem that needed fixing. I will have to
read the camera manual to see if there is a way to deal with this
problem, or maybe it was simply the dirty window I was shooting through.

Thanks for the effort at cleaning the photo up, did you start with the
ginormous version I posted first, before I realized how big it was, or
did you use the shrunken version of the photo I posted later?


Regards,

John Byrns


In article ,
"TerryJ" suptjudatcomcastdotnet wrote:

John's photo with colors auto enhanced with Infanview and a bit of
sharpening.
"John Byrns" wrote in message
...
OK, well that was a little bit ginormous. Please pardon my lack of
experience with digital photography, I am just learning how to operate
the new camera my wife got for Christmas. Hopefully this reduced size
version of the photo will work better.

Happy New Year.


Regards,

John Byrns


It's nice to see someone taking a pride in what he posts on this NG. I'm
just a bystander (maybe 'voyeur' would be more correct), but I do like
to see the pictures.

What does annoy me when massive filesize images are posted, more often
than not, out-of-focus too. I assume that they are straight out of the
camera, with absolutely no attempt being made to optimize them (crop,
sharpen, adjust colour, brightness, gamma, contrast, resolution etc and,
in particular, try and get the filesize down to something which doesn't
make someone who is still on dial-up tear his hair out. I reckon that
most images posted here should have a filesize between 50kB (or even
less) and around 150kB at the most. Reducing a picture which starts life
at (say) 1MB down to 50kB, and making it look just as good, is 90% of
the fun.

Finally, Irfanview is very good (in fact, only yesterday, I updated mine
to the latest version). However, I usually use FastStone Viewer
(freeware, but you can slip them a few bucks if you want).

And finally finally, that's a really nice picture - just how Christmas
and New Year should be.
--
Ian