COMMENTS THREAD FOR RANDOM PHOTOS LVI

Yeah, images are being resized pretty small on the desktop site. The mobile site seems to be ok, and if you put your phone in portrait orientation, you’ll see embedded photos good and large.

I was on my 27” monitor earlier, and threads display as a thin strip in the centre 1/3 of the screen, which is a total waste of screen space. Hopefully they’ll sort it out.

I couldn’t get Flickr to embed at all. Neither BBcode nor HTML worked. At least uploading an image is easier now.

Image embedding test:

Well, that was easy! Bog standard URL copied from image hosting site, and pasted into the comment box using the MEDIA button, not IMAGE

Looks like it needs a proper (image) file extension to work, though. Won't display google images, and there doesn't seem to be any way to link the image to a corresponding third party site.

And I see that it comes with that damned white space above the image ... :rolleyes:

Dunno, I just posted 2 shots into the random photo thread, one linked from flickr, the second one uploaded directly. The first one is grand, fills the post content, and if you click on it it'll expand to the linked content size. Second one is postage stamp sized (or maybe small postcard sized :-D ). It's possible the upload just limits the size dramatically regardless of what you upload, but it does seem pretty arbitrary. Best thing seems to be to use the 'insert image' button and use the direct URL of the image i.e. given the BBCode like this of a flickr image:

[url=https://flic.kr/p/2mfFJTe][img]https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51362012475_01090e5b72_b.jpg[/img][/url][url=https://flic.kr/p/2mfFJTe]Marlay[/url] by [url=https://www.flickr.com/photos/dairequinlan/]Daire Quinlan[/url], on Flickr

the image url is that link https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51362012475_01090e5b72_b.jpg

I'm ... not sure that would be useful. I guess the problem is that high res images are being uploaded and the forum software is resizing them to small images. On other forums you upload and it'll store a medium image for use on the post, and a larger image for when you click into it. It's possible that we might have to ask for the photography forum to be treated differently in terms of upload de-res and in-post display of images.

Daire - I think that Hellfire photo might look even better in B&W but knowing you - you've probably looked at all options

The 'thanks' system is no longer fit for use as far as I can see! Just as an example after your last POTW - I responded and my response got 4 'thanks'. However this now shows as one 'thanks' unless you click on the thanks icon- in whih case the names of the 4 'thankers' appear. Some upgrades are retrograde!

Following on from: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118092759/#Comment_118092759

I've had a similar sort of experience with Google's Pixels. They make a lot of things a lot easier when you don't want to think about them or when you don't understand what's going on inside the box and just want it to look like what you see. The Pixel's Night Mode doesn't really work where there's a lot of dynamism where stuff's moving because (I think) it's a stack of exposures or a highly stabilised long exposure. But it lowers the barrier for entry for stuff like that.

On the other hand, it still struggles with stuff like having the moon in the same shot and it never really seems to do exactly what I want or expect. It doesn't let things go to dark when you want them to go dark.

Hi guys,

I just noticed that the majority of photos posted in this thread over the last couple of weeks are from me. I have been careful to not post more than one photo a day, but was embarrassed when I realised how many were mine. Am I posting too many or has everybody just moved to other platforms? I don't want to be "that annoying person" but .......

Keep it up. Place is dead enough already without people voluntarily cutting back their posting.

@New Home , re your sun ring pics, that’s called a 22° halo (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/22°_halo), and it’s caused by the sunlight shining through tiny ice crystals high in the atmosphere. I’ve never seen it myself, so well spotted and thanks for sharing!

@Adrian.Sadlier Lovely duckling pic, bit I think it's a Little Grebe :)

@dinneenp if it were me (and only because you asked!), I'd crop the top left hand corner. Leaving just the diving stand, the water and lots of sky.