So you have finally decided to tackle THE BIG PROJECT... the one lurking in the back of the closet protecting all those dust bunnies for you. You know the one... It's been there for years and every time you get ready to go on vacation you think about it and get enthusiastic about it; and then you come back from vacation with more of them to collect dust bunnies, maybe...
You have decided to get all, yes, all your photographs in order... even those old photographs that are not D-I-G-I-T-A-L-L-Y captured! That's right the ones that are backed up is on a negative... oh my... what a negative thing to say!!!
The motivation will be from friends and family who ask, "When are we going to see the pictures from your trip?" And your response, "Go and look on Facebook." Oh really now... do you want to be anti-social and send people away to another digital place to view digital images in a "cloud?"
This is an opportunity to meet, greet and eat! It is also a time to show off your photo skills too. You may have a masterpiece lurking among the dust bunnies and didn't know it.
Your first question is... "Where do I start?' Don't start with the closet first... first start with that which will build your courage, enthusiasm and confidence... begin with the last vacation or last set of photos taken. Was it a birthday you just celebrated or maybe you've not touched the camera since Christmas... that's a start... so what are you waiting for... Christmas.
As you get into the project you may find some interesting photos that "weren't there before." Oh, how time helps us make new and exciting discoveries. Let the creative juices flow and think how to show off these most recent photos…
You have many avenues to display your photos:
1 Post your photos on Facebook
2 Print (or have one of the “1 Hour” photo drop-offs print your photos) and pass around photos at gatherings
3 Put photos in a scrapbook… OK SCRAPBOOKERS here’s your chance
4 Make a video of your photos and post on YouTube
5 Purchase the large frame with multi-opening matting where you can display many photos in one from… a “themed” frame
6 Write a book… that’s right… write a book
Hold that thought for the next blog posting… in the meantime… gather your photos you want in that one “display.”
And don’t forget to take the lens cap off…
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Tuesday, June 22, 2010
Sunday, April 27, 2008
A Palatable Pixel...
Periodically, a "Pixel Palate" will be posted as a little morsal for you to "chew on" and think about. Here is the first of many:
When you go on a vacation, you have spent much time preplanning and preparing. There has been research for the lowest priced airfare, hotels, places to see, events taking place and whatever else. You don't want to go fishing quite a distance from home, decide to stay overnight and discover there is "no room in the inn." That happened to my husband and I years ago when we lived in California. We decided to go fishing at an "interesting looking" lake on a map. We went fished and decided to stay overnight. When we started to search for a room, none were to be found... the innkeepers kept mumbling something about the Calaveras County Leaping Frog Contest (Mark Twain's short story on this event was one of his first writings to be published). To make a long story short, we ended upstairs above the bar in a room at the Black Bart Inn. We propped a chair against the door because there wasn't a lock. That was good because during the night someone tried to get in. Oh, and did I tell you, the sheets on the bed hadn't been changed?
Well back to the morsal... You are taking your camera and know what you want to take pictures of, right? If you are looking for the postcard view... buy the postcard! Yeh, we all want to top the postcard view... but... spend more film or memory card space capturing pictures of family, friends or other views that aren't on postcards. Don't try to duplicate what a postcard already has. You will spend valuable time on that mission and miss other great "memory" shots.
One more thing... you're on vacation... remember to remove the one-eyed silver box from in front of your face from time to time to see the "real time" views!
When you go on a vacation, you have spent much time preplanning and preparing. There has been research for the lowest priced airfare, hotels, places to see, events taking place and whatever else. You don't want to go fishing quite a distance from home, decide to stay overnight and discover there is "no room in the inn." That happened to my husband and I years ago when we lived in California. We decided to go fishing at an "interesting looking" lake on a map. We went fished and decided to stay overnight. When we started to search for a room, none were to be found... the innkeepers kept mumbling something about the Calaveras County Leaping Frog Contest (Mark Twain's short story on this event was one of his first writings to be published). To make a long story short, we ended upstairs above the bar in a room at the Black Bart Inn. We propped a chair against the door because there wasn't a lock. That was good because during the night someone tried to get in. Oh, and did I tell you, the sheets on the bed hadn't been changed?
Well back to the morsal... You are taking your camera and know what you want to take pictures of, right? If you are looking for the postcard view... buy the postcard! Yeh, we all want to top the postcard view... but... spend more film or memory card space capturing pictures of family, friends or other views that aren't on postcards. Don't try to duplicate what a postcard already has. You will spend valuable time on that mission and miss other great "memory" shots.
One more thing... you're on vacation... remember to remove the one-eyed silver box from in front of your face from time to time to see the "real time" views!
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