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Michele Carlsen
{K:146013} 5/24/2007
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Thank YOU Harry - I am really glad You like it !
Michele~
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H L
{K:11377} 5/22/2007
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Very unusual...very cool composition, Michele!!!!
Harry
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Michele Carlsen
{K:146013} 4/23/2007
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Thanks Doyle ...haha!!! You are too funny -- were you right there in my folder watching the 4 and 5 time reduction to 400K ????? Yep- You were ---- Thanks for the tip- makes sense to me .
Thanks again,
Michele~
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Doyle D. Chastain
{K:101119} 4/23/2007
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Nicely done Michele . . . you have some Jpeg artifacts . . . When I was new to digital I did too. I'd save and compress, even at high quality, and they'd pop up from time to time. It seems to happen more often when shooting for a number (uhhhh . . . like 400k? - LoL!). I'd save and see 512k, reduce a leeeetle more and save and see 465k, reduce . . . save . . . reduce. Blech! The multiple saves have caused Jpeg artifacts. Instead using "Example.jpg" . . . (use):
Save As < Example-UF.jpg
NOW . . . if it's 512K . . . Go Back to the ORIGINAL Example.Jpg and reduce it again . . . but a bit more this time . . . and again
Save As < Example-UF.jpg
(It will let you overwrite the old one.) When you get the reduction where you want it . . . you will have saved exactly ONE time from the original. And the original is untouched!! :)
Anyway . . . this composition is excellent . . . I can see it as a desktop wallpaper. Love these Hawaiian images!! ;)
Regards,
Doyle I <~~~~~
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Michele Carlsen
{K:146013} 4/20/2007
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Well John You showed us the back of the orchid, now I show You just the tree trunks ..lol !!
Honestly the previous image has the tops of the tree's and if you put them together you would have the whole image--- they were just too tall- plus I wanted to be creative too:))
Cheers,
Michele~
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Michele Carlsen
{K:146013} 4/20/2007
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Thank YOU for your kind comments Alicia... they mean so much to me :)
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Michele Carlsen
{K:146013} 4/20/2007
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Thank YOU dear Gust@vo for your time to view and comment dear friend !!! Much appreciation!
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Michele Carlsen
{K:146013} 4/20/2007
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Thank YOU Robbie -- I am very happy for this comment my friend !
Take Care,
Michele~
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John Hatz
{K:156973} 4/20/2007
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I like a lot the colors here, even I could prefere to see some tree's tops, anyway, beautiful clarity too for that resolution, you almost can see the grass details! Very nice!!!
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Alicia Popp
{K:87532} 4/20/2007
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Estupendo paisaje enriquecido con esos troncos que se elevan y rompen la horizontalidad de la composición... felicitaciones!
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Gustavo Scheverin
{K:164501} 4/20/2007
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Interesante encuadre, buenos colores.
Felicitaciones!
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Robert Chin
{K:22282} 4/20/2007
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7+++++++ for compositional skill Michele!!!!
For me the art of composing is to get the message across which you did perfectly!!!
Wonderful colors too!!
Take care
Robbie
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Srna Stankovic
{K:172232} 4/19/2007
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You have to many, but you are the One :)
Hug
Srna
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Michele Carlsen
{K:146013} 4/19/2007
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Ohhhhh dear Srna... You are too kind to comment on so many of my images !!!!! I have tooo many :))
Hugggsssss,
michele~
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Srna Stankovic
{K:172232} 4/19/2007
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Perfect shot of your perfect eye my dear, so beautiful colours and atmosphere and 7 ++++ !!!!!!!!
Love
Srna
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Michele Carlsen
{K:146013} 4/19/2007
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Thank YOU aLi-- I appreciate your comments so very much ... I am glad you like this colorful image.
Best Regards,
michele~
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Ali Naghizadeh
{K:19600} 4/19/2007
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Great work Michele.. well done an amazing composition with very beautiful color contrasts and vivid colors.. maybe it would have been better to crop off the tree branches from the right.. maybe a tad distracting.. a great shot anyway.. very well done 7/7
My very best regards,
aLi
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Michele Carlsen
{K:146013} 4/18/2007
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You would LOVE it in Maui dear Nicole I just know it !!! there are so many kinds of palms too... these are the tall skinny but there are also short and sort of big tops...ha!!!!
Thank You for your generous and kind rating my dear !!!
Hugsssss,
michele~
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Michele Carlsen
{K:146013} 4/18/2007
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Thank You dear Erland !!
Michele~
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Michele Carlsen
{K:146013} 4/18/2007
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Thank You Joao !
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Nicole Besch
{K:72664} 4/18/2007
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WOW..must be great in Maui dear Michele!!So colorful.I have never seen tall skinny palms..one reason to go there one time..LOL!So beautiful taken my dear:)
A very big hug to you,Nicole from a less warmer day as yesterday!!
7/7
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Erland Pillegaard
{K:34147} 4/18/2007
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Great color and composition again my friends
erland
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Joao Sousa
{K:1796} 4/18/2007
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Great place and nice horizon! Good colours Michele!
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Michele Carlsen
{K:146013} 4/18/2007
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Thank YOU Nacho !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Michele Carlsen
{K:146013} 4/18/2007
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Hi Joe, this normally happens to me when I am trying to down-size to 400 pixels for up-loading and I want to get as close to 400 as I can-- I have recently started to delete the in-between ones...and will take up your suggestion about different locations... Much appreciation Joe- ( one for large- one for small) That's it !!!!
michele~
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Jose Ignacio (Nacho) Garcia Barcia
{K:96391} 4/18/2007
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amazing.marvelous tones. stunning. a delight.
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Michele Carlsen
{K:146013} 4/18/2007
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Thank YOU Pradnya -- I just loved those skinny little trunks of the palm tree's - They are sooo tall too !!
With much appreciation, Michele~
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Joe Brown
{K:23213} 4/18/2007
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Michele, one more thing, rather than save multiple images, copy the image to various locations.
Joe
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Pradnya D
{K:3875} 4/18/2007
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Fabulous shot Michele...
very colorful and beautiful..!
I liked it.. 7/7
-Pradnya
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Michele Carlsen
{K:146013} 4/18/2007
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Thank You Joe for the great explanation..Yep I see the degradation... and I do know why now as I have saved these images in several locations---woooooo bad me , wrong thing to do ... but now I know better. I really appreciate your time and thorough explanations that really help me understand so much more Joe-- You are a great UF friend :)) I appreciate You very much my friend.
This Helps A Lot !!!!!!
Michele~
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Joe Brown
{K:23213} 4/18/2007
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Hi Michele,
Do you see the pixelly looking patterns in the sky beside the 3 trunks on the right? I call these patterns digital compression artifacts which is a degradation of the image quality caused by using too low of quality setting when saving in a compressed or lossy file formate like jpeg. Also, repeated saving of jpegs compounds the problem by further degrading the image and creating more visible artifacts. When saving a jpeg there should be a quality setting option, usually a number ranging from 1 to 10 with 1 being very low quality and 10 being the highest. Usually, 8 or better will give you an image without visible artifacts. The trade off is file size. The higher the quality the larger the file size. Once you have transfered images from your camera to the computer you should not save that image again with that original file name. If you do this then you will always have an image of the highest quality to go back to. When I want to edit an image, with a name such as IMG_10001, to resize or adjust the light or crop save that image with a different file name such as "IMG_10001 crop pp 850x567", this tells me that it is a modified image and gives me some idea what I've done. It leaves the original intact.
You could capture raw images or save as a tiff file which both use lossless data compression or are uncompressed. Both of these file formats are much larger than jpegs. To find out more check out these terms in Wikipedia,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAW_file
Hope this helps,
Joe
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Michele Carlsen
{K:146013} 4/18/2007
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Thank YOU my dear friend Pablo !!
Michele~
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Michele Carlsen
{K:146013} 4/18/2007
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Thank YOU for the kind compliments Joe but I don't know what digital artifacting is tho ?
I hope it is not like disinigrating because I don't have these images saved on disc- and after a few moves on my pc they don't look quite the same:((
Thank YOU Again,
Best wishes, Michele~
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Michele Carlsen
{K:146013} 4/18/2007
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OHHHH Holland sounds wonderful-- Ok... Let me get this straight now- You say OUR cold horrible weather blows east-ward to Holland-- BUT You don't like that- YOU like it Warm & sunny as it is now .... so I should make sure that the horrible weather blows to the west ?
Right riny :)) If I could I probably would :)) How nice , I am getting the weather report agin :)
I will tell you that the shooter in the Virginia
Massacre
was a student and also very brutal and strange so say his roomates... Each person shot was shot at least 3 times--- one class-room had 17 dead- he just walked in and randomly shot first the professor, then went down the isles.... It is soooo saddd... he was Asian, and had a record for stalking women ......
Your friend holding the wind back for YOU,
in dark, cold, rainey Oregon, USA, Michele~
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Michele Carlsen
{K:146013} 4/18/2007
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Thank You Iman. I appreciate your commnets so very much .
Best Regards,
Michele~
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Pablo Dylan
{K:63918} 4/18/2007
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Very...very nice shot the color is superb.
Brava dear Michele.
Pablo
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Joe Brown
{K:23213} 4/18/2007
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Another super shot Michele, you have a very good eye. The sky is very attractive with the cloud bank on the left mirroring the land form in the distance. The shadows in the foreground give validity to those tree trunks to ensure the viewer that they do have a tops. Some digital artifacting going on in this one, not sure why. You can see it along the sides of some of the trunks. Very nice work my friend.
All the best,
Joe
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Riny Koopman
{K:102911} 4/18/2007
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Hi my dear Michele,The weather in Mauli is much better than in Oregon...
I read about very bad weather in the USA.
Cold, snow, tornado's, heavy rainfall.
But over here in Holland it's hot it's 26 degrees and 4 weeks dry
Highest temp.over daytime became 29-30 degrees.
Sunshine, blue sky, people on the beach.
Its a April record!!
It's very rare weather not only in our country.
But the USA is such a big country, so i don't know if there are states with "normal" temp/weatherconditions.
We have to watch the weather because mostly wheater from the east of the usa with easternwinds are coming over the ocean to the western side of the european countries.
But please, try to blow all of you the clouds and rain to the west-side of the usa. ;D
i prefer warm and sunny weather :):) Your friend,riny:)
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Iman Fouad
{K:12295} 4/18/2007
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Nice tone and composition,well seen Michele.
Iman
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