Barbed Wire.

[John G]

Hi
    As a response to yesterdays comments on file sizes, this is my very first attempt at creating a file to be in line with showing web images.
    Any further guidance is welcome.

[John G]

 OOp's it always helps if you upload your image 

[Frank Fremerey]

Looks like a musical score....

[Lars Hansen]

Looks like a musical score....

.. with pain as a theme if that is hair on the wire 

[Hugh_3170]

Barbed wire doesn't appeal to myself and on new fences most farmers in Australia and NZ have phased its use out, the barbed wire being replaced with 2.5mm high tensile wire well strained and quite often electrofied with short 8kV pulses.....

That said I have watched cattle use barbed wire as a scratching pad, whereas they avoid hot wires like the plague.

(Odd Spot:  the leading brand of electric fence power units down here are Gallagher!)

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I like the images - photographically sharp wire and pleasant OOF background.

[John G]

Hi all
        Thank you for your comments.
         I really thought that the post process resizing would offer a image IQ, that did the original justice. I am not seeing that in this uploaded image.
       The file resizing/down sampling caused the original image to deteriorate quite a degree. This image is a very refined image showing defined strands of hair,
        with subtle highlights, that can be seen in the version before resizing. Any pointers to keep a high IQ would be much appreciated.
        To be fur specific, the cattle using this for rubbing are Highland Cattle, a name that has spread all over the globe like Gallagher.
        The electric fence brand is a global product and will be seen in many catalogues, when investigating a product choice. 
         Not many animals fall foul of barbed wire in the UK, there are small enclosures, with many frequently used public rights of way in close proximity,
         so anything seen untoward are quickly reported. I have reported escaped sheep,horses,cows on a few occasions. Even lost a horse myself through Barbed and Electric.
         The sheep are so far permanently confined.     

[Frank Fremerey]

If IQ is important I ask people to right click ... view image .... resize to 100%. That works on Mac and PC.

All discussions here were split into people using Apple and people using Windows.

While color management issues seem to be solved .... some have it some have it not ...

The resizing issue is still two worlds .... apple .... windows.

That seems to hold true even with the same screen resolution dpi wise.

Android seems to behave more like Windows.

iOS seems to behave more like MacOS.

Issue unsolved.

[charlie]

I like the image but agree that quality suffers, looks like low quality jpg artifacts. The size of the image is relatively low at 113kb, why don't you try a downsize with higher quality settings and see if that improves things?

What software are you using for downsizing?

[pluton]

John, Lovely shot.  I'd definitely like to see it larger but without such prominent compression artifacts.
I agree with Charlie:  Maybe a touch larger file size would help to eliminate the compression artifacts.  Aim for the neighborhood of 800kB to 1oookB and see what happens.

[Tristin]

I always use just high enough compression quality to avoid artifacts.  I think 500k is totally reasonable for most images, even if it is only 1200px on the long edge.  We are all here to look at quality images.  I am ok with 1mb too if the image calls for it.  No point in saving the viewers loading time only to serve them a file that does not do the image justice.

[John G]

Hi
    Thank you for your support and offerings of guidance, I intend to offer the best quality images I know how to process for Web View/ NG guidelines.
    This is a image I have processed into JPEG before, but with out the consideration of Web Viewing. I revisited the NEF File, I opened it in DxO as it now has corrections for
    a 300mm f2.8 ED IF, then exported to Lr5  and then to CS6. All image resizing for web was carried out in CS6 then saved to the images original storage file.