John Colby
jcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Wed Jun 4 09:59:54 CDT 2003
>And yes, I am just an armature photographer. What, you haven't heard of armature photographers? Spellcheckers! 8-( John W. Colby www.colbyconsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com]On Behalf Of John Colby Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 10:49 AM To: AccessD Subject: [AccessD] OT: The cutest little guy (no not me!) Just thought you folks might like to meet my son Robbie. As many of you know I am a foster dad. I have put up pictures of him on my web site. Click on the "Meet my son" button. The thumbnails are very small so they should load quickly. The actual pics are 800x600 and average about 175k so if you are on dialup, beware. It will probably take about 30 seconds to load a pic over dialup, over cable or DSL probably just a couple of seconds. This may be the cutest kid in Connecticut so take a gander. Taken with a Cannon A70 3.2 mpixel digital camera at the highest resolution (2048 x 1536), placed in JPEG format by the camera at a "very fine" compression level. To drop the file size for the Web, as well as solve a problem with the display image being huge, I then used Photoshop to drop the pixel count to 800 x 600, keeping the auto resolution at "best". The resulting image is pretty good considering the machinations it has gone through. A digital camera is a great investment if you like to take photographs. I also bought a cannon S820 photo printer and I must say the printed photographs are stunning on Cannon high gloss paper. I can print 8x10s that look like they came from a photo lab. Taken together, the printer, a 128 mbyte memory card to replace the pitiful 8 mbyte card that comes with the camera, and a Maha charger and 8 2200 mah batteries to feed the beast, I must say it isn't cheap. However I can now take ~76 photos at the highest resolution, and print them immediately if they are good enough to put on paper. Someday I may get my investment back, but just the ability to get the photos in my computer, email them to friends, share them with you guys via my web page, and print them for the odd person with no computer (mom?) makes it all worth while. I took a ton of photos of a friend's child's birthday and just dropped them on a CD. Most photo labs can print from CDs now. Anyway, check the little boy out and tell me what you think - of him and of the photos. And yes, I am just an armature photographer. John W. Colby www.colbyconsulting.com _______________________________________________ AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com