Blogging Tip #389: Shoot photos at a lower resolution (Duh! Common Sense!)

For so long I've been blogging using my mobile phone camera, since I can send the photos I take immediately to a mail address and can upload the photo without editing it for size.

Normally if you take a photo at 3 megapixels, you will first have to downgrade the resolution to something more mangeable, otherwise the upload times to the blog are unmanageable.

However, my camera has a "simple mode" (beauty of the LUMIX camera -- yes, this is a plug for that camera!) which has only three settings, including resolution size. I downgrade the photo quality on this for the photos that I am taking only as memoirs ... the way I used to take snapshots of certain things just as a record and not because I was planning to develop them.

I read somewhere in the newspaper that more and more people are doing this sort of thing, preferring to take photos of lower quality which they will never decide to develop prints of. Even then at this resolution a photo taken at this level (approximately 1 megapixel) fills my screen. More than enough, especially for the blog or when sending via e-mail to friends and family ... you be the judge.