When posting pictures PLEASE, PLEASE

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I really like it when people post pictures of their guns.

Most pictures I either know the gun by sight or can see the make in the picture...BUT
But alot (more than I'd like to admit) I dont know.

So, please when posting a gun picture list what it is.

Please...please, or am I the only dumb one that has this problem?
 
Naw. You're not. Particularly in the newer "wunderguns". They all pretty much look alike to me.

And while we're on the topic, please keep the picture size to something reasonable. Some of us are still using dial-up. (Yea, yea..I know. Dial-up died when the asteroid hit..so I'm the last one.)
 
Yes, please keep the size down, both in bits and physical size. Downloading with dial-up is a pain and I hate having to scroll sideways to see the whole picture. Yes, there are still places in the world where DSL or cable isn’t available.

Also, using a software I can’t get unless I reboot in Vista (which I hate). I can get jpeg’s all day with XP.

Same with video’s. I usually skip these be (reloading) cause it takes so lo (reloading) ng to see these an (relaoding) d I don’t hav (reloading) e the patience it ta (reloading) kes.
 
please keep the size down, both in bits and physical size
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Also, some guys just have the same photos stored on their harddrive and whenever the opportunity presents itself, they keep showing the same photos over and over again. Stop. We've already seen those things about a 100 times on several different forums.
 
We should have a sticky on how to post pictures, too. It should include:

1) How to shrink your pictures to a reasonable size
2) How to use photo sites like Photobucket, Flickr, etc.
3) How to use the Preview Post feature to see if your pic is way too big
 
Another dial up. Also if you are posting a reply don't repost the pic again, and again,and again. I hit on a thread and it takes a LONG time to load. Seems it has one pic and 5 people put the same pic in thier reply....
Its also nice if you post link to Youtube/others to give a short HINT of what it is. "this is 20 minutes of some guy trying to explain how his bolt action .22 works" It would take me a hour to download.
 
Yep, it'd help to at least caption what the firarm is. There's simply too many firearms out there to learn them all....well unless firearms is your primary hobby.

My primary hobby is computers, then cars, then whiskey/tobacciana, then firearms....so I'm hardly as knowledgable on what's what as many here would be. I know the cheaper firearms as that's what I'm likely to shoot, that's about it.
 
I like captions too. I can't tell a G17 from a G22 by sight. All the S&W 'masterpieces' look the same exept for the caliber markings. I try to caption mine and I do upload them from the cpu (resized as small as photoshop lets me, saved as jpeg, then the uploader will sometimes shrink them again) I don't use photobucket because it can get deleted & I also have to have 2 browser windows up to post. The thumbnails are on THR's server and get kept longer.
 
Ruger1022003.jpg New Here. Just wanted to see if I could post a pic of a 35 year old ruger 10/22. Thanks
 
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"New Here. Just wanted to see if I could post a pic. Thanks"

You are in a thread asking for captions for pictures, and you post a picture without a caption? Are you being intentionally dense or are you really just that much of a newb/troll?
 
Larry_Minn said:
Another dial up. Also if you are posting a reply don't repost the pic again, and again,and again. I hit on a thread and it takes a LONG time to load. Seems it has one pic and 5 people put the same pic in thier reply....
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Your browser is smarter than you give it credit for.

It only downloads an image once, and then places it where it's called for.
 
It only downloads an image once, and then places it where it's called for.
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Posting and reposting those same boring "Ooh! Look at my guns! Ooh! Ooh! Look at what a great photographer I am!" pictures eats up bandwidth.
 
I'm a gun newbie, and barely recognize a gun beyond "revolver," "semi-automatic pistol," or "long gun." I used to enjoy the picture threads until I got frustrated by the lack of information included. I no longer waste time looking at the threads.

I'd LOVE to view gun pictures if they included useful info. "This is my 9" isn't useful info.
 
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nalioth said:
It only downloads an image once, and then places it where it's called for.
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Posting and reposting those same boring "Ooh! Look at my guns! Ooh! Ooh! Look at what a great photographer I am!" pictures eats up bandwidth.
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. . only if the quoting person re-hosts the pictures somewhere else.

If they just quote the original content, it doesn't use any more bandwidth (as it only downloads images once), but it does add to the scroll length of the visible page.

:)​

Joe Schmoe visits the "Show your hot new guns" thread at THR, and the 2nd post contains a picture of some gun that is made of unobtanium. Several other posters quote that post (along with the image) and express themselves over it.

As Joe's browser loads that page, it loads the image the first time it's called, and in subsequent posts, when it sees the same image URL, it just re-uses what it already downloaded.
 
nalioth - but we have to reload it everytime we open up our browsers. It isn't the see it 50 times on a page that gets me... it's the load it up the first time after I have started my browser up that kills me. I clear my cache, my cookies, my history, and my saved passwords every time I close out my browser.
 
it just re-uses what it already downloaded.
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Nonetheless, it's irritating having to scroll down past six or seven huge pictures that we've already seen a dozen times. Yes, they're nice guns. Yes, the photography is well done. But that's what I said the first 3 or 4 times I saw them, 3 or 4 years ago.
 
Nonetheless, it's irritating having to scroll down past six or seven huge pictures that we've already seen a dozen times. Yes, they're nice guns. Yes, the photography is well done. But that's what I said the first 3 or 4 times I saw them, 3 or 4 years ago.
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while that may be true, that only applies to those that have seen the picture before.
for many folks it will be the first time,
 
Pfff, when I get my new camera (soon) it will be of such awesomeness you will be able to read the stampings on the barrel ;)

Then you will probably be asking people to list the camera they used :D
 
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