Photography ideas, camera & image editing

You might be intriqued by the word Hospedagem in the title. Well, Hospedagem simply means Web Hosting in Brazilian.

Some websites do not need much bandwidth for web hosting. But if you are maintaining photographs and image intensive websites, bandwidth might be an important factor. This is because photographs are considerably larger files than plain text-based contents.

Additionally, many photography-related and photo portfolio websites like to use Flash animations. That makes websites even more bandwidth-intensive.

Typically, it is not a good idea for the visitor to wait for too long for the site to load.  Visitors normally do not have the patience to wait for more than a minute or two.

There are several ways to increase the loading speed.

One way to work around this is to use a fast web host. Homehost is an example of a web hosting company. Typically, shared hosting packages are slower than dedicated servers.

Another way is to compressed the photo JPEG file until it is reasonably sized. I use GIMP to do the jpeg image compression. So far, GIMP does a fairly good job. The compression that I use is typically 85%. Using the default 100% usually produces images that are unnecessarily large.

Well, that all for this article. Hope it is useful.

Derrick Than is a professional Photographer based in Singapore. He is also a member of WPJA which is the Wedding Photojournalist Association.  WPJA is a globally recognised association that comprises photojournalists and wedding photographers from all over the world.

He is a Wedding Photographer. His style of photography is journalistic which allows him to capture the true moments of a wedding couple’s big day. Derrick specialises in the following aspects of Wedding Photography, namely Solemnisation, Actual Wedding Day and Pre-weddings.

Derrick’s approach is characterised by friendliness and patience, which brings out the client’s and photographic subject’s naturalness and spontaneity.  This allows him to capture photographic moments in a natural and most memorable way.

His friendly style does not compromises on attention to details. Events and details that would other-wised be lost to the ravage of memory are faithfully captured in his images.

His work and contact information are available on his website.