Five More Common Photo Sharing Mistakes And How To Avoid Them
You Can Avoid These Photo Sharing Mistakes Many Photographers Make
Carrie presented five common photo sharing mistakes -- here are five more you'll want to avoid.
In fact, you can make your photo presentations come alive by avoiding these five common photo sharing mistakes. You'll amaze yourself and your friends when you're done modifying and creating your slide show with these points in mind.
Photo Sharing Mistake #1. Photos are too large
Some people put up photos that are so huge that they don't fit the width of your computer monitor. This makes it difficult for the person to appreciate the picture. It's quick and easy to reduce your photos.
The best size for online viewing is about 400-500 pixels wide and 400-500 pixels high. Set the resolution to 72 pixels and keep the file size to less than 100 kb. This last number determines how much time it takes for the pictures to load when someone downloads your photo presentation. The smaller the better.
Open the image in a photo-editing program that lets you resize your photos. Scout around the menus for the image resize tool. Open it and change the sizes. Make sure you set it to keep the ratio. This will ensure the image doesn't distort, which happens if you only change one size (horizontal or vertical).
Photo Sharing Mistake #2. Photos are not interesting
Boring presentations happen when all the images are the same or similar. For example, they are all taken far away of the landscape, or they are all close ups of people or marketplaces. You need to mix and match for maximum effect.
Make the images tell a story, much like a novel does. Set the stage with general shots, and then gradually close in on the final target. You can take a landscape shot, and then close ups of garden beds and finally, a close up of an individual flower for a dramatic conclusion.
Photo Sharing Mistake #3. There are no captions
Have you ever seen a photo that's hard to identify or that's of something you recognize but can't place it? This can be disturbing. It leaves you with that odd sensation that you get when you can't remember why you went into the other room.
Adding appropriate captions to all your images will help tremendously. They will also help to enhance your presentation because they give you more opportunities to be creative. Add funny captions, a bit of history about the location, and actual names of places.
Photo Sharing Mistake #4. Captions don't make sense
While captions can be helpful, they can be more disturbing than pleasant additions to your presentation if they aren't done right. Your captions should make sense. If you've taken a close up of tree bark, don't just caption it as "gray texture". Tell the view that it's the bark of a 100-year-old Maple.
Photo Sharing Mistake #5. Presentation doesn't make sense
Your photo presentation needs to make sense, too. The problem arises when photos are not sorted at all or they are sorted incorrectly. If you put in a photo of a storefront, then one of the produce and then a picture of a clown, your presentation won't make sense. People will expect to see the shop owner and it's unlikely it's the clown.
Unless, of course, it really is the clown. If he is, then you can have a lot of fun writing the captions for this segment of your presentation.
Put all these elements together, avoid these photo sharing mistakes, and you will have a great presentation that's bound to have your audience drooling for more.
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