“Top Ten Digital Photography Tips” by Derrick Story

We can all use some hints/tips for taking better pictures.  Never hurts to cram a little more info into our already overstuffed brains when it comes to our hobbies.  I thought you might find this info of use when taking your own photos.

http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2002/10/22/digi_photo_tips.html

Now for some more pictures:

 

 

 

Vintage Photos

About a week and a half ago I ordered a CD of vintage photos of Wales taken between 1890 and 1905.  At the time they used a process called Photochrom (no “e” on the end) to add color to the black and white photos.  This is the definition according to Wikipedia:

“Photochrom (German: Photochrome) is used to create a color print from a black and white photo negative, using between four and fourteen lithograph stones, made from rocklike substances, to colorize the print with several different inks.

The photochrom process was most popular in the 1890s, when color photography was first being developed but commercially impractical. Photochrom was developed in Zürich, hence its proper name being spelled without the final ‘e,’ and was brought to popularity by the Detroit Photographic Company. When the US Congress authorized the one-penny postcard, thousands of photochrom prints, usually of cities or landscapes, were created and sold as postcards. Photochrom typifies the look and feel of “postcard pictures” and hence photochrome may also refer to the modern age of color postcards in America.”

From:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photochrom

These photos on the CD are not copyrighted so can be used by others in various ways.  Here are just a few for your enjoyment.

 

 

 

Moon Pic

This took me awhile to get just right.  I kept getting a blurred image.  What was I doing wrong???  The answer was so simple..I needed to use a tripod, because me, myself and I could not keep from moving during the shot.  Once I attached the camera to the tripod and took the pic, it came out very well.  No blurs, or big white blobby streak across the pic.  Then I played around with the grayscale in my photo editing program.

Cruise Pics

I have been making a  lot of photo notecards lately.  It’s really easy.  First, get a package of notecards with envelopes.  I got mine at JoAnn’s.  Also buy some archival mounting squares.  Again, at JoAnn’s.  Resize your photos to fit the cards.  Print, cut apart, use the mounting squares to affix the photos to the cards.  Viola!  Instant gift!  These can be packaged in a small gift box or even a zip lock bag. 

Here’s a few of the Mexican cruise I went on:

 

 

 

Photos, etc.

  Good Morning!  I have been playing around with some of my photos.  I love taking pictures and always have a camera with me…just in case.   Here are a few:

 

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 My oldest son says those flowers are weeds.  Well they are pretty weeds, called “hardy flower”, I believe and they attract butterflies.

The swan pic was taken at a local zoo.

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