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The photo albums to the right contain images either taken by me, or sent to me from friends in the area in and around the lake. While I prefer digital images, only for clarity and resolution, I have gotten some beautiful shots sent to me in conventional format. The problem with hard pictures versus digital shots is physical size. The physical size of a picture that has been snail-mailed to me is the largest size I can display.
Having said that, if you wish to have some of your digital images displayed on this website, here are a few tips. If your camera allows you to select the pixel size of images you wish to take, always try to select the largest size i.e. if you can choose between low resolution 320 x 240 pixels or higher resolution 640 x 480 pixels, go with the 640 x 480. The lower resolution image converts to about 4.5" x 3.25" while the higher resolution image converts to about an 8.5" x 6.5" picture. All photographs that I take with my Olympus C5050Z are high resolution 2560 x 1920 pixels. This allows me to take images that are filled with detail. I can either crop the image to show only a portion of the large picture, or I can reduce the physical size of the image in my photo program to something like 800 X 600 which will fill the screen on a computer running that size screen resolution. Normally I resize my images, via my photo program, to 1024 X 768 pixels, which matches the popular computer screen resolution. However, since some of you may be running 800 x 600 resolution on your monitor, I'll probably make the full size images the same.
Another tip: always process your digital images in a photo program. This allows you to check quality, brightness and contrast, sharpness, change image size, and so on. Also, and this is really important, your photo program should give you the option of saving your image "for the web" or something simular. Always, if you are going to have your image displayed on a website, save the image for the web. This way, the image information is compressed into a smaller file (not a smaller image). Some programs, like the one I use, have optional web quality settings. Setting the quality to a lower setting makes the saved file even more compact, without loosing too much clarity. Also make sure you keep the original digital image in your computer, in case later on you might want to make additional changes. Oh, and some people get confused when they get the option of what type of file to save their image as. Always use (picture).JPG versus (picture).gif or (picture).bmp.
For those of you who don't have a digital camera, it's no problem. You can snail-mail me your prints, and I can scan them in, move them to my photo program, make minor manipulations for display purposes, and convert them to a web-saved image. Please contact me via email for mailing instructions.
Last tip. If you email images to LakeCarey.com, please don't send images larger than 1024 by 768 pixels, and make sure the images are compressed via your photo program. The attached file size should, in most cases, be less than 100 KB. If your attached image is in the mega-bytes (MB) size, it is too large, and will only clog up & slow down my email. If the image you are sending is exceptional, I might ask you to go back to your original image, which hopefully you still have, and email me a higher resolution image.