Here goes. I’m releasing my baby to the world. Anyone who knows me will attest that I am a diehard knitter. I have knit enough scarves and hats to stuff the coat closest of everyone who has ever celebrated Christmas with us, and I have donated enough to Harrisburg’s largest mission to keep them warm for a winter.
When I went gf in January, I got the itch for a new hobby. I knit with wire and the swatches were amazing. I went to the craft store to look at what kind of tools and accessories it would take to turn those little pieces into jewelry. Well…I got hooked. I’ve been playing with jewelry making in my (non-existent but necessary) spare time. The few pieces I’ve done have turned out great (now that I know how to use a crimp tool!!!)
Here’s the necklace and bracelet I made over the past few days:
Ok, that’s the only picture we get tonight….I’m Really frustrated….Does anyone have any advice at all about uploading pictures….Everyone has these awesome pictures of food. My pictures are all fuzzy and flashy. I’m using close up, and I researched online and found the milk bottle/white background trick, but the pictures still upload in gargantuan size and all fuzzy. It’s really hard to resize them. I had 5 pictures loaded and the whole thing froze.
I really want to take pictures of our food and my jewelry and post it. Help.
Dear Brother….please share your art school wisdom! I have until the Saturday before Easter because I promised several pieces for the Vent Camp Fundraiser and I want to get good photos before I lose them!
Thanks in advance.
Jen
Here’s a few more fuzzies of my jewels…
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PS: It was really hard to pick a name for my card…they want a card to display with the jewelry at the fundraiser. You wouldn’t think that naming something after yourself would be a problem, unless there are 0.5 million people with the same name as you! Why Jennifer…….except that I was the born in the year 1970, the inspiration for the book “Beyond Jennifer and Jason”. I have one sister in law who has the identical married name and I have another sister in law who has my maiden name. Those who are plain wish to be exotic, and those who are exotic wish to be plain.
March 5, 2008 at 3:16 am
Here’s some of the wisdom to start, it will be a little sporadic since I don’t have the camera in front of me to fiddle, but here goes…
When taking the photo, get as much available light as possible. In 96% of instances, the flash is going to be vastly inferior to natural light. If you do have to use flash, aim the camera at a 45 degree angle to your subject so that reflective surfaces do not bounce the flash directly back at the camera and give you glares.
Second, for jewelry, and even some of the food, see if your camera has a close up function in the menu (most cameras use a little flower as the icon in the menu.) If you have that, it will help you focus in on close-up stuff.
Third, if your camera has a viewfinder thing, use that instead of your screen. Not only will your battery last longer (because it doesn’t have to power the lcd screen too), but you will also have the camera against your face, which should help you keep it steadier. Practice holding the camera as steady as possible. Breathe deeply. I’m not joking.
Lastly (for now as I am tired), You’re probably having trouble importing photos because it looks like you’re importing them at full resolution. If you’re bringing them into Iphoto or similar before dropping them onto your site, try playing around with the ‘export’ features. I don’t remember if you have Photoshop or not, but if you don’t, no matter. In my copy of Iphoto, I choose the photos I want on your site, crop and make any edits I want to do, and click ‘file/export’. Choose to export them as jpeg, constrain the Width to a smaller size (I make the pics on my blog about 500px wide, which is about the width of my page’s text column. Ignore the height measurement, it is erroneous.).
Once you have the images a smaller size, they should be easier to upload. Then WordPress won’t have to work as hard to do all types of in-line editing of the images like make your preview sized pictures and stuff. I’ve never had any problems with it yet… Wow, what a ramble…
It might be all in your houses wireless router tho…
March 19, 2008 at 2:28 am
I would agree with what the above poster wrote. Use natural light. I almost always have my flash off, even in low light. Flashes on small cameras almost always seem to be overkill in all the wrong places. For taking pictures of your jewelry, take them during the day.
And look for the flower thingy on your camera to make sure it’s set for close up. Depending on how good your camera is, is how close you can get. It looks to me like your pictures are not focused. So you are probably too close or don’t have the close up function on. Or you are moving the camera when taking the shot.
I have an 8 meg camera and I always shoot in the highest resolution possible. You can always change the size of the pictures after you download them. But you want to start with really good high resolution.
I use flickr.com to load my pictures onto my blog. It’s quick and easy. You do not have to do anything to your pictures but upload them. After they are uploaded, you can choose the size you want before loading them on your blog.