Post pictures taken with your TP2 good or bad

[aznmode]

Originally Posted by acc-tx

Couple of things with this camera (as with all cameras with these pin-hole lenses)
- They love lots of light. In bright light they do much better than poor light
- Play with the contrast, saturation and sharpness. I have mine set to Contrast +4, Saturation +3, Sharpness +4 right now, getting nice natural pics.
- Most of all, ensure the image quality is set to SuperFine and not the default of Fine, and if you have a registry editor, increase the SuperFine setting which reduces the amount of JPEG compression applied to the image. it's under \HKLM\Software\HTC\Camera\Image\JpegQuality\SuperF ine\3Msize. The default is something like 53000, and I've increased it to 64228 (from another forum recommendation) but have not played with higher values. I actually just sent HTC an email asking how to improve it more. I will post if I hear anything post-worthy.

See attachment.

Thanks for the contrast, saturation, and sharpness setting. That helped a bit.

[bnappy]

Originally Posted by erockvr6

taken in Atlanta, GA, sweet bar, The Vortex

My wife and I have been there a few times and loved it. Thank you for the flashback.

[mikedboyd]

[Mayonesa]

i miss snow!!!

[mikedboyd]

At this point, in Kansas City, we're on a record pace for snow and getting more later today. Oh - we're setting overnight low records also. You're welcome to take some of this wherever you are.

Originally Posted by Mayonesa

i miss snow!!!

[jrgolfpro]

I took this picture at a Taylor Swift concert I went to this past fall. I had only had my tp2 for about a week before this and this happen to be the first time I used it so all the settings were left untouched. I even discovered afterward that the photo quality was set to fine and not super fine but the pictures in my opinion turned out pretty nice considering it was dark and all

[Damager]

craigs wrx.jpg

Pic taken yesterday. I cant remember the last time i fiddled with the settings.

Most people i show my pics to think my photos aren't too bad.

[animez]

Haven't taken a lot of pics, but these are probably the two best (which ain't sayin' much);

AthensTrain.jpg

FirstSnow2009.jpg

[trids]

Originally Posted by djqwikcut

Can I ask HOW people on here are getting good quality photos.. mine look horrible.. take a look at the attached photo. If anyone can tell me how to improve the quality I would appreciate it...

Reducing the sharpness gives you the best results. Full settings here

The only way of determining the best settings for yourself is to take some photos under different conditions that you can later duplicate .. then alter one parameter at a time (start with sharpness) and then go and take the same photos again. That way, you're comparing apples with apples. It's not going to help you to compare an out-of-focus indoor close-up with a long distance outside scene.

Just for clarity, the different conditions that you should use in your test are: indoors with different lighting conditions, outdoors, macro (close-up), etc.

And above all, keep your hands steady when you take a shot! Many of the pics posted in this threadare poor primarily because the camera was moving when the pic was taken. Under poor lighting, the camera will be even more sensitive to handshake. So don't be too shy to lean against something like a railing or a tree or wall under such conditions.Hope this helps