posting pics from smart phone

[gary jackson]

im probably to old and dumb for this but would someone be willing to give it a shot  

[peteski]

I replied to your question in the other thread.

[NOBLNG]

Click on this and these options should pop up!

 

Edited June 26 by NOBLNG

[maxwell48098]

Remember one other tip when taking pics with a smart phone.  Always take the photos with your phone turned sideways.  That way you picture will be filled with more of the model you are photographing, and less of the background.

 

A.J.

[StevenGuthmiller]

1 hour ago, maxwell48098 said:

Remember one other tip when taking pics with a smart phone.  Always take the photos with your phone turned sideways.  That way you picture will be filled with more of the model you are photographing, and less of the background.

 

A.J.

Usually, if you take photos with your camera on it's side, you have to rotate the photo anyway, so you can basically just as easily take photos with the camera upright and crop them afterwards.

Either way will work to "fill" the photo.

 

 

 

 

 

Steve

[Bills72sj]

I only take pics with my iPhone. A USB cable to my PC allows me to cut and paste them into a folder of my choosing. I have 5 different photo manipulating programs but basically I only really use the crop feature. Occasionally, I may do some color correcting or contrast touches.

[Russell C]

36 minutes ago, Bills72sj said:

I only take pics with my iPhone ...

Ditto, but what I do instead is text the photo to my email address, open up the email and download the photo to my computer desktop, then crop out any extra background and fix the sometimes too-dark shadows using my simple Photo Preview program. But I also use that program to knock down the epic file sizes the iPhone generates. I set the measurement thing in inches and reduce the widths from 24 - 48 inches down to 4½ inches and the pixels-per-inch measurement thing to 150 ... which seems to put out photos in my posts that look clear enough for my old eyes.

[peteski]

6 hours ago, Russell C said:

Ditto, but what I do instead is text the photo to my email address, open up the email and download the photo to my computer desktop, then crop out any extra background and fix the sometimes too-dark shadows using my simple Photo Preview program. But I also use that program to knock down the epic file sizes the iPhone generates. I set the measurement thing in inches and reduce the widths from 24 - 48 inches down to 4½ inches and the pixels-per-inch measurement thing to 150 ... which seems to put out photos in my posts that look clear enough for my old eyes.

Good do  see  that  there are more conscientious members here besides me who do resample their huge-size photos to  something more reasonable.  While nowadays storage space is relatively inexpensive, it still costs money, and this forum is quite busy with hundreds of members uploading photos.  The storage space will be filling up and then what likely will happen is some of the photos will be purged (making many threads and posts useless).

There really is no reason to upload huge photos which would be printed poster-size.  There are different ways of describing size of a graphic file.  I usually resample mine to about 1200 or less pixels across resulting in the file size of 200k bytes or less.  Russel's description of what he does results in images (4.5" * 150dpi  = 675) pixels across. these will probably be around 100k bytes in size. That is perfectly good for photos displayed in an online forum post.  Some of the huge photos some upload to the forum take up 3 or 4 Mega bytes each. Way more than what is IMO reasonable for a forum photo.

[StevenGuthmiller]

4 hours ago, peteski said:

Good do  see  that  there are more conscientious members here besides me who do resample their huge-size photos to  something more reasonable.  While nowadays storage space is relatively inexpensive, it still costs money, and this forum is quite busy with hundreds of members uploading photos.  The storage space will be filling up and then what likely will happen is some of the photos will be purged (making many threads and posts useless).

There really is no reason to upload huge photos which would be printed poster-size.  There are different ways of describing size of a graphic file.  I usually resample mine to about 1200 or less pixels across resulting in the file size of 200k bytes or less.  Russel's description of what he does results in images (4.5" * 150dpi  = 675) pixels across. these will probably be around 100k bytes in size. That is perfectly good for photos displayed in an online forum post.  Some of the huge photos some upload to the forum take up 3 or 4 Mega bytes each. Way more than what is IMO reasonable for a forum photo.

I’m still posting the vast majority of my photos through a hosting site.

That way no storage space is used.

 

 

Steve

[peteski]

3 hours ago, StevenGuthmiller said:

I’m still posting the vast majority of my photos through a hosting site.

That way no storage space is used.

 

 

Steve

That certainly is a valid solution to the space utilization issue, but since the images are remote they might not be available in the future.  Whenever possible I prefer hosting small images along with messages on the same forum site.

[Bills72sj]

23 hours ago, Russell C said:

Ditto, but what I do instead is text the photo to my email address, open up the email and download the photo to my computer desktop, then crop out any extra background and fix the sometimes too-dark shadows using my simple Photo Preview program. But I also use that program to knock down the epic file sizes the iPhone generates. I set the measurement thing in inches and reduce the widths from 24 - 48 inches down to 4½ inches and the pixels-per-inch measurement thing to 150 ... which seems to put out photos in my posts that look clear enough for my old eyes.

I like the direct file transfer for maximum resolution. I no longer downsize the file as today's digital bandwidth is much improved over the days of dial up.

[Bills72sj]

11 hours ago, StevenGuthmiller said:

I’m still posting the vast majority of my photos through a hosting site.

That way no storage space is used.

 

 

Steve

Nowadays expanding storage space for you PC is pretty cheap. Hosting sites are somewhat risky as they change their access rules and/or go out of business. There is also metadata hidden in the photo file that can put semi personal data at risk such as location.

[peteski]

8 hours ago, Bills72sj said:

I like the direct file transfer for maximum resolution. I no longer downsize the file as today's digital bandwidth is much improved over the days of dial up.

It is true that the days of posting "modem safe" sized images are long gone, but it is not about the transfer rate, but about the hosting disk space.  With the default size of photos from modern cameras getting out of control large, and hundreds of participating in *FREE* forums like this  one, uploading all those large images, something will eventually have to give.  Either become for-fee forums, or run out of image storage space.  Why do you insist in maximum resolution when the image will just be viewed on a computer monitor? How much detail do you want to show, just because you can? Forum software displays photos in posts in a size to fit the browser window. How many people viewing your photo will actually expand it to view it in its full 24 Megapixel glory, especially since many view the forum on tiny smart phone screens? What a waste.

[peteski]

8 hours ago, Bills72sj said:

Nowadays expanding storage space for you PC is pretty cheap. Hosting sites are somewhat risky as they change their access rules and/or go out of business. There is also metadata hidden in the photo file that can put semi personal data at risk such as location.

Um, isn't that metadata (EXIF or similar) also present in photos uploaded to this site, so what's the difference? Anybody can extract it here or on Photobucket.  If you are worried,it is up to you to disable storing that information on your end, when taking the photos.

[Pierre Rivard]

I use the iPhone, photograph vertically, then crop top and bottom, then email it to myself choosing the large (vs original full size) format. This way I end up with a 400-500 Kb file size rather than a bigger than needed 2.5-3.0 Gb. I save these smaller file pics on my Mac (with cloud backup) and use these for posting on the forum. I think this is a reasonable file size/accuracy tradeoff. Example:

 

[StevenGuthmiller]

11 hours ago, Bills72sj said:

Nowadays expanding storage space for you PC is pretty cheap. Hosting sites are somewhat risky as they change their access rules and/or go out of business. There is also metadata hidden in the photo file that can put semi personal data at risk such as location.

I still have all of the photos that I keep on the hosting site on my hard drive.

They're not going anywhere.

 

My objective is not to insure that the photos that I post on forums such as this remain here forever.

I view them as temporary.

There's no guarantee that this board will remain in perpetuity either, so it's not high on my priority list that my photos will be able to be viewed here forever either.

 

 

 

Steve  

[gary jackson]

sigh   you guys are inthe thehigh school level of photo posting and im in elementary school  lol

[Marley]

On 6/26/2025 at 9:46 PM, StevenGuthmiller said:

Usually, if you take photos with your camera on it's side, you have to rotate the photo anyway, so you can basically just as easily take photos with the camera upright and crop them afterwards.

Either way will work to "fill" the photo.

 

 

 

 

 

Steve

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