Aztalan MX may 13 2007

[oldguy]

A couple pictures with the new lens I just picked up from Chili

Our A classes today had 2 very fast racers and they were all over each other all day. The other riders while back a ways were also racing hard and tight

 

[oldguy]

still A class

 

[oldguy]

future A riders were just as intense

 

[oldguy]

now the dummy part. How can I resize without loosing the quality and size so much? I have photoshop 6 and according to the resize these should be 7.5" wide.

 

[olderndirtmom]

future A riders were just as intense

These little guys were awesome. The one little guy jumped like a man....Great form..... BIG AIR!!!

These turned out nice Old Guy.

 

[oldguy]

Thanks Mom (seems strange since you are quite a bit younger then me)
I shot 600 today so I have a lot of digging to do to find some hopefully real good ones.
BTW the cake must have been a hit because when I finally worked my way back to the pit it was just crumbs. Cake and 10 or 12 teenagers doesn't seem to last long.
Great to meet you and hope to see you soon (in racing gear on the line)

 

[olderndirtmom]

Don't let my immature behavior deceive you! We are indeed contemporaries....(Kind of in the same way Magilla Gorilla and Cecil the Seasick Seaserpent were contemporaries??)

Those teenagers were nowhere to be seen when I left the cake!!! So glad the girly frosting didn't deter them. Mr. Olderndirtmom picked up the cake while I, yes, slept in.

600 pics? You'll be up all night!!

 

[Chili]

now the dummy part. How can I resize without loosing the quality and size so much? I have photoshop 6 and according to the resize these should be 7.5" wide.

Dave for web viewing you want to worry about the pixels not the inches. resize them to a max of 800 pixels wide which will make them 800x533 if you leave them at a 3:2 ratio like they come out of your camera.

 

[Chili]

I'm sure you know but not all these shots were taken with the new lens, at least according to the exif data they don't all fall inside the 70-200 mm range of that lens.

Do me a favour, send me the full untouched version of this shot.

 

[patto3]

I use this neat little program called PIXresizer (http://bluefive.pair.com/pixresizer.htm) which is just so simple and keeps the image quality 100%. Good work by the way.

 

[oldguy]

doug I know I was switching a bit during the day but most were with the new lens.
What email should I use? The new computer doesn't have any addresses in it yet

 

[oldguy]

One of our A riders That was flying all day

 

[oldguy]

Dave for web viewing you want to worry about the pixels not the inches. resize them to a max of 800 pixels wide which will make them 800x533 if you leave them at a 3:2 ratio like they come out of your camera.

OK I tried resizing to 800 x ??? but it kept coming back as to big- 409 KB with max allowed being 179kb

The only way I can get it to attach is to shrink to 6" which is 432 x 288

 

[oldguy]

Looking at more photos I have to get a polarized filter (they were out when I was there and I ended up with a plain UV). as I have many # plates and goggles with glare

 

[Chili]

Dave you'll need to host them somewhere else instead of putting them as attachments at that size. You can use some of the free sites like photobucket, imageshack, etc to host them and then insert them into the posts with image tags. Your web provider likely gives you some space to use with your internet package as well.

 

[oldguy]

I have a photobucket album that I will use

 

[oldguy]

Mom the little guys sure did jump

 

[oldguy]

still experimenting with getting bigger images

 

[olderndirtmom]

I hadn't realized at first that the first shot was of the little little guys, until I saw where you had shot it from. I didn't watch the pee wees. Those are some amazing kids...all around. Amazing accomplishments.

 

[olderndirtmom]

nice photos....

 

[Chili]

Dave I'll take a look at what you sent me tomorrow after I get some sleep from this night shift. By and large (or small until you figure out the resizing :laugh: ) you will likely want to either start shooting much tighter or cropping these much tighter.

 

[oldguy]

Yes I do need to find a bit better (tighter) spots. I was afraid with the bigger lens of getting to close but am learning slowly

 

[Chili]

You actually have less range with that lens than you did with your cheapy telephoto (200mm vs 300mm)

 

[Chili]

Ok Dave here's my photoshop impaired interpretation of the two shots you sent me.

 

[oldguy]

Any redeeming quality on the shots?
I have to get used to being able to go closer with the 70- the old lens only went to 100. I am thinking of getting rid of the 100-400 older one as I really don't see much use for it now except maybe some wildlife field shooting.
Thanks for playing with the shots and like I said I can not believe the differance a lens can make for a beginner like me