Effective photos, but it would be a courtesy to FR and its users if you learned to to reduce them to half their present dimensions (1/4 the area and file size).
Thanks for the feedback, FRiend. True for those that don’t have high bandwidth — it’s a compromise. But I had to make the photos have impact, to deliver the full impact of each image, while still taking into account the average speed of a typical download on FreeRepublic.
I have a professional camera setup. I use professional quality lenses and pay a lot of attention to the quality of my images. The images here are processed from the original high-resolution RAW file in Photoshop. I apply color calibration, cropping, and many other processing steps prior to each photo’s final highly compressed JPEG format presented here, as long as the process doesn’t materially editorialize the image (the most “editorialized” is the blurred penises). I already reduced the images to 1/4 their native size, in many cases. All of them are reduced in resolution to at least 1/3 or slightly greater, even with a crop.
I want these images to be circulated as widely as possible. They can always be reduced, losing detail, but can never have detail added by enlarging. Thus the disclaimer in the title to my post.