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It’s a different shot from the same morning.

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because the solid black background and the simplicity of the image compresses very efficiently in the jpeg conversion process. You only have a very few colors in that pic and a large monochrome background devoid of any detail. That background could (theoretically) be described in about 5 bytes.

The more detail and colors in an image, the more transitions there will be, which will drive up the file size. Try looking at several images, some complex and busy, and the compare with a an out-of-focus photo of a monochromatic surface, which will produce about the smallest jpeg file possible for a given frame size.

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adorama is selling D40 refurbs with a warranty for $399.

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broadway photo is reputed to be one of the crooks that will never let you get one of the sale prices-

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,107855-page,1/article.html

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How much sharpening can we use this week?

😯

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I’ve had my own site for years.

I’m looking for a more social-networking site oriented for photogs.

Maybe I should build one – I own pixelmavens.com.

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The title of my second entry this week is “There’s one in every family”.

I think the next “teh funnay’ should include the rule: no photos of signs or text. I’m just sayin.

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Well, I was hoping that the photo would give one the sense of mass, or heaviness.

Sorry I’ve been slacking off, I’m starting a new job next week and have had a couple of projects going that have eaten into Farktography time.

Priorities & all that.

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because I used a gradient on a layer mask, so it breaks the rules. Wanted to share it though.

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Damn it. I thought this week was HDR. Time to dig thru my flickr and see what I got for this.

So did I… so I’m late to the frickin party. we need to have the next contest ALWAYS be the top one.

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I meant for a single contest 🙂

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Yeah, sure. You’d think I’d come out #1 at least once, eh?

Instead of having like the longest unbroken string of 2nd-thru-7th finishes evar 🙂

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y’know, it’s looking like having a username beginning with “s” is an unfair advantage 🙂

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if they were deleted, you have to rename them on your web host.

damn annoying.

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ahhhh. it’s darn hard to match the scores to the contests on that page then.

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