Hi Stu,
Just checking once more to make sure. I seem to remember a general request to the community here to upload many many images (can't seem to find it now though, so maybe I'm confused?)
Well, I have a relatively large batch of fairly/really small images that are ready cropped and optimized for forum/internet usage as they show mostly the animal and not much else around it. My camera isn't the best available (to say the least) so the best my camera can do with small animals is such as displayed in the attachments to this post.
These images, as they are, I have sitting around on my hdd. If I would have to make them a 640x480 minimum I would have to go back and redo the cropping (
if I still have the larger originals that is), which means extra work and really doesn't make the animal one bit sharper or clearer ("blowing them up" to the required size would even be worse in terms of sharpness). In fact, the little 3mm ant woodlouse would get lost in a sea of red underground.
So, should I forget about these images that document many species and their development stages? Of course I also have some "nice to look at" of big flowers with a small unrecognizable bug or bee somewhere in the center and I'll be happy to share those, but it's not my main focus in "photography".
Sometimes I have collages of these animals, and some of those
might qualify for upload by sheer pixelsize, as these will consist of multiple small images, just for the sake of argument I uploaded one to the (user) gallery:
Although the complete image is accepted at upload, the individual parts wouldn't be - so it's fair to assume that the "detail" provided is then actually not "up to standard" for the gallery either. So, would collages like that be welcome anyway or would you rather not have them because of the inferior quality?
Hope these examples illustrate the point/question I was asking answers to.
Cheers
Arp
P.S. Oh - I see attachments are indeed disabled now, so I can't even attach the small images I was talking about ... well, that clears that up
Here they are. The boxes indicate what I had sitting around. The ant woodlouse is now pasted into a background from some other image, the ladybird larva is a newly created crop (old size boxed). The larger pixel size adds nothing to the "quality" of the image. Original filesizes were 10k and 20k, now 50k and 40k respectively.
