Editing of Potential Calendar Shots 2016

[F, Calla & Luca]

If you would like critiques and/or help with editing of potential calendar shots post them here. Members often volunteer to help. Please post the original photo unedited if you want help. The helper will probably ask you to email the original photo. Before you ask for help on your photos read the Guidelines for the calendar and keep them in mind when taking photos and when posting here. Remember to take the best quality, ie large file size and highest resolution your camera can take.

http://www.doodlekisses.com/page/calendar-photo-requirements

An easy way to see if your photo meets the minimum calendar requirements is to use Jeffrey's exif viewer.

http://regex.info/exif.cgi

You can pop your photo's URL in the proper place and you will get lots of metadata including # of pixels. there is a ton of information but the number of pixels is what you need. Calendar pictures must be 2300 pixels wide by 1800 pixels high.

Example:

Jeffrey Friedl's Image Metadata Viewer 
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Jeffrey's Image Metadata Viewer

[CLEAR IMAGE]

Basic Image Information

Target image: https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/93590269?profil... Artist: Picasa Camera: Nikon D750 Lens: AF-S Nikkor 28-300mm f/3.5-5.6G ED VR Shot at 62 mm (shot wide open) Exposure: Auto exposure, Shutter priority AE, 1/3,200 sec, f/4.8, ISO 1000 Flash: Off, Did not fire Focus: AF-A, at 6.7m, with a depth of field of about 3.5m, (from about 1.3mbefore the focus point to about 2.2m after) AF Area Mode: Dynamic Area (9 points) Date: July 15, 2016   2:10:37PM (timezone not specified) (1 month, 9 days, 8 hours, 46 minutes, 31 seconds ago, assuming image timezone of 4 hours behind GMT) Time Zone Offset: -04:00 File: 4,427 × 2,955 JPEG (13.1 megapixels)    11,079,038 bytes (10.6 megabytes) Color Encoding: WARNING: Color space tagged as sRGB, without an embedded color profile. Windows and Mac browsers and apps treat the colors randomly. Images for the web are most widely viewable when in the sRGB color space and with an embedded color profile. See my Introduction to Digital-Image Color Spaces for more information. Apply other tools to this image via ImgOps.com

[Cindy and Olive (Ollie)]

OK, don't laugh - once I figure out how exactly we can post these 2 Ollie photos from my hub's (not a dk member) phone to here, we will ask pretty please for your help and opinions! Whether or not we submit for calendar, I'd love to commemorate our beautiful pup with your help. Thx!

[F, Calla & Luca]

Do you have a laptop or desktop you can download the photos to? Then it's easy to post them using the second icon from the left over the response box.

[Cindy and Olive (Ollie)]

Hi, F! Since there are no 'upload' icons via his phone directly, we are going to email them from his phone to laptop, then upload here. I just hope they translate with quality. Here goes... :-)

[Cindy and Olive (Ollie)]

And in his email they now look "washed out" - we don't know why. I'm just going to upload from my iPad now and cross my fingers!

[Cindy and Olive (Ollie)]

One below, and three here. I hope they upload correctly - see what you think. Thx!

[Cindy and Olive (Ollie)]

These seem to upload one at a time...

[Cindy and Olive (Ollie)]

Last one (of four)...

[F, Calla & Luca]

These are all good photos as far as focus and such. Most could use cropping and some eye lightening. Let's give folks some time and maybe we'll get offers to help.

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

I wasn't sure the first three met the size requirement? Am I wrong?

[F, Calla & Luca]

I forgot that detail so you may be right.

[F, Calla & Luca]

Okay, the first one has enough pixels. When I get a chance, soon, I will add instructions on how to check for this on your photos for newcomers. After all, the photographer should do as much of the work as is feasible.

[Laurie, Fudge, and Vern]

Here is my edit on this one.