A few species blooming now (Malaxis, Schoenorchis, Spiranthes)

[samarak]

All taken yesterday in the greenhouse. Just for fun (and to practice photographing them).

Malaxis latifolia
Schoenorchis manipurensis
Spiranthes australis

Steve

[WhiteRabbit]

Lovely! Your photos are as well!

[samarak]

Thanks, Sonya. There must be some trick I haven't learned yet to uploading photos here, because I see they showed up really low-res, and other members photos show up much higher-res.

Steve

[silken]

Very nice!

[RosieC]

Cool, great flowers.

Originally Posted by samarak

There must be some trick I haven't learned yet to uploading photos here, because I see they showed up really low-res, and other members photos show up much higher-res.

Using the hosting on orchid board you have to resize them. Some resizing tools are better at the job than others. Photoshop elements is very good BUT it has various settings and I find the default settings give very fuzzy results for flower pictures so if you have something with options when resizing like that does then experiment with others.

The other way people show pictures is to host them on something like Flickr or Picasa or other photo hosting site, then post them as a picture there which is actually stored on the other site. This allows other resolutions and sizes that are not supported when storing them on orchid board. That's what I do, Flickr even gives you the code you need to copy and paste into the forum to post them here.

[samarak]

Hi Rosie,

I use GIMP to resize my pictures before uploading, since the "originals" are huge, but even so something about the upload process to OrchidBoard scales them way down, with resulting poor resolution.

I've seen others embed links to Flickr or some other hosting site, but I thought surely there was some other way to get a decent-looking picture up.

Thanks,

Steve

[RosieC]

Your photos don't look to bad when you click on them to see them at full size. Is that size still smaller than you resized them to? If it is maybe try resizing smaller, as I would guess that any resizing OB does is not as good as your software can do.

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I think that to get the good high definition stuff it might need an external site like Flikr though. OB limits the size because there is limited storage space as that's not the main aim of the site and storage space costs money. Photo hosting sites allow bigger pictures as their whole business is hosting photos.

[samarak]

Hi Rosie,

Yes, the upload to OB scaled them way down. I always scale pictures down to 100-200KB since the originals from my camera are huge files. In this case, after I scaled them they ranged from 140-180KB, but after upload the resulting files on OB ranged from 14-30KB.

I suspect you are right and I'll have to link to an external photo site to do better. Unfortunately, I don't currently use any of them. I did search the OB FAQ briefly but didn't find anything explicit on this topic. I'll do a better search later.

Thanks,

Steve

[RosieC]

Not trying to advertise or anything, I have no interest in you using a specific site... but Flickr is a good choice if you are looking for a site to use. It has 1Gb of free space which is absolutely masses and it provides the code you need to post the picture on this forum with a choice of size, you just have to cut and paste the code into your post. Much easier than some sites I've tried where it's harder to find the link to post. You just find the 'share' option and choose the 'bbcode' option and cut and paste that into the forum post.

[Leisurely]

Some very nice and uncommon flowers. I noticed this morning that my little Schoenorchis fragrans has two tiny spikes that are starting to develop that are like pin heads.