Digital photography

There has been some cool stuff on here lately, strong thread.

Where do people go for digital printing? I used snappy snaps once - it was a bit $hit.

I've used http://www.dscolourlabs.co.uk recently. Really good quality prints for the money.

Has anyone moved from the Fuji 35 to the 27? Im thinking about doing it as I might end up taking my camera around more

Just printed a large ish print from Photo Box, use them on and off over the years, always happy with their quality and pretty much always next day delivery. If you want professional printing labs then there are a few good ones in London but stay well away from Metro Imaging, they are no longer good, in fact this is an understatement, they are shit.

Clydeside today.

Croyde, north Devon

Supernice.

Super foggy here tonight, very atmospheric.

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@zazkar

that would make a great print

Yes mate, that's the plan. Thanks @Si88 and @ExTra for print recommendations.

Here's a question. The image is a 6MB jpeg off the card, I open it in Potatochup (CS4), rotate by 1 degree, then save as highest quality jpeg, and it's reduced to less than 3MB. What's that about? Im worried I'm losing resolution before printing...

..pixel dimensions are the same?

So much good work in here lately, bravo guys.
Will I dig both the mountains and the trippy trees, @gillies - nice and graphic, @zazkar - bit cheesy but very nice indeed, @mi7rennie - don't mean to teach, but these fog shots would be a lot better if you used a tripod, allowing you to shoot at base ISO instead of 3200 or whatnot, @Si88 lovely lanterns...

Yeah I'm sure they would Tina, I was actually out walking the dog and had a toddler in the backpack so was just trying to get the best shot I could hand held with a dog pulling me and a toddler swinging her legs.

I was also taking pictures of the dog and needed a fast-ish shutter speed to get her sharp, and didn't change setting.

Please do comment though, constructive criticism is always welcome!

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I'm still getting to grips with new camera (rx100) so criticism definitely welcome! Haven't used a real camera since I was 12 (26 now...) so got a lot to pick up, for sure.

@Franz Beckenbauer, cheers, I messed with some PS image settings and the edit is now saving at the same size as the original, christ knows what I did though! One (cheesy) print on it's way.

Finally went through the pics from Saturday night. Wasn't very easy to edit these. Also nice and grainy because I don't have my tripod at the moment.

Really like that bottom one. Also, I think the grain suits them - it adds atmosphere.

I took a bunch on Sunday night but haven't processed yet...

did you save it to 12 on the sliding scale? There is no need, 10 is as high as you need to go, anything higher than that, photoshop compensates... so I was told... jpegs are compressed anyway so depends on how big a print you are printing. I think the size reduce might have something to do with how your camera and photoshop compress jpegs differently, I wouldn't worry too much.

If in double, just go to View - Print size, see if you see any pixels or blur etc. In any case, files size is a funny thing, if I am printing something I always check the actual image size to make sure it's 300dip and the same size or bigger than what I am prinitng.

Not really feeling any of the shots I got... Ugh.

^ well that one looks pretty nice.

All the fog ones are epic

..nice, like #5 and #6 especially!

Ah ok.
On a sidenote - if you can give them an uncompressed file for printing, .tif or .psd or something, I'd rather do that than editing the camera's .jpg and saving (and compressing) that again as a .jpg

Yup, shoot in Raw then jpgs for tinternet and tif for print.

Only fog shot I got, on my phone during the recent The Evil Shred ride. Spooky.

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kinda foggy.

and an accidental shot. I tried to take a photo and forgot I still had the camera set up for long exposures.