Posting Pictures

If Kodak Gallery allows you to share your photos with others who are not members of that web site, then the answer is yes.

Just supply a link to the relevant photo page.

You didn't say in your first post, but why do you want to share your photos in these forums?

Mark

I want to post some photos to get help with some of shot I am not pleased with. I will post them tomorrow.

See if you can Link to your photo on the Kodak website.
Some photo sites will not let you link to a photo.

If that occurs, you can try the Photobucket site.
They encourage you to link to photos.

Seeing a bad photos is much better for diagnosis of a problem.
We will be waiting.

I followed the directions that spanshot2 gave for sharing pictures via phtobucket and now I have two of the same albums. I didn't get a choice of 4 links. Is there a way to post the photos through my newly created album?

In Photobucket.
Go to your album and find your photo.
Click on the photo to enlarge it
That should enlarge the photo and produce the Links window.
Click in little window to the right of "Direct Link"
It will be put in your computer scratch-pad.
Go to Digital Camera Forum
Start a thread and with the mouse cursor in the message window,
Hold down the Ctrl key and press V.
That should paste the Link into the message window.

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I downloaded your photo and opened it with PhotoShop Elements.

The EXIF information shows:
Shutter speed - 1/30th second
Aperture - f/3.3
ISO - 400
Flash and no zoom

The photo is soft - (not sharp).
It does not appear to be blurred and there is a little noise (due to ISO 400 setting).

A soft photo can usually be sharpened with software.
I used Unsharp Mask to sharpen the photo by 130%.

The color appears to be off just a little but it may be due to the complex lighting situation. You have a bright background lit by artificial lighting. That cream colored wall behind does not help any.
The flash is not bright enough to overpower the background lighting.

I did a "auto color correct" and it made a slight difference.
You can compare your before and my after photos.
See if you see any difference.

I suspect that you do not have the .jpg quality set at its best setting in the camera.
This may (or may not) cause some of the softness.
Look at the back of the User Manual for the Index and look for the word "Quality" under the Q.
It will direct you to a page in the manual.
Make sure your camera is set to use the maximum megapixels and the Quality set to Fine. I suspect, your camera is set to "Standard".

Here is a link to your photo that I have altered by sharpening and Auto Color Correct with Photoshop Elements.

Picture060-X.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/randol9p9/Picture060-X.jpg

If you have any photo manipulation software, you might try sharpening some of your other photos.
If you don't have any software, I suggest you download "Irfanview" at Irfanview.com
It is an excellent free photo program.
After you download it and install it:
Load photo and click Image/Sharpen.

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I was amazed at the information you could get from my picture. Can you tell me any other settings I might need to correct? Also for indoor pictures what's the best ISO, but If I have it on auto do I have to worry about ISO?

All digital camera photos contain something called EXIF.
It is data that is obtained from the camera for every picture taken.
The EXIF is embedded in the photo itself.

In my reply, I mentioned a free software program called Irfanview.
If you use that program and load a photo, you can see the EXIF information.
Just Click Image/Information/EXIF info Button.

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ISO is a setting that doubles the amount of light the sensor puts out, each time you double the ISO setting.
i.e. 100, 200, 400, 800, 1600, 3200

But it comes with a penalty.
It increases the noise as you increase the setting.
Most small cameras produce unacceptable noise at about 400.
Large DSLR cameras can go as high as 1600 with almost no noticeable noise.

With a small camera, it is best to leave it at 100.
In Auto mode the camera will raise the ISO setting whenever it needs more light.

So, to keep a certain ISO setting you have to get out of Auto mode.
But if the camera can not raise the ISO setting it will have to lower the shutter speed instead.
So, in low light you could be shooting with a very slow shutter speed.
Something like 1/2 second.
You can not successfully hand hold a camera at that slow shutter speed.
You will get blurred photos due to camera shake (movement).

You should use the flash in low light.
That prevents all the problems mentioned above.
With flash set, the shutter speed will be set to 1/60th or 1/30th of a second (depending upon the camera model).
The flash will illuminate anything within 12 feed (on most small cameras).

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