It seems like a lot of the blogs I read have themes for posts on various days of the week. So today is Toot-your-own-horn Thursday. PopPhoto.com (Popular Photography Magazine) has a “Your Photo: Our Critique” feature and today it has one of my photos in it.
Not exactly a Photography Hall of fame but it is nice to know someone likes your work. Let me know what you think!
We shot out first wedding a few weeks ago and I think it went pretty well. Everyone will tell you that digital has made a photographer’s life easier, but there is a downside to digital that you quickly realize once you start to get busy. With digital you can take way too many images. In the past month we have shot one wedding and two events.
Great, except that now I have 3500 images. Why is this so bad, surely the perfect image is in there some place right?
Two reasons really. Time and Storage. It takes time to sort, crop, adjust and retouch all those images. Of the 2000 images from the wedding, I only marked 350 as rejects. Not all the images need to have anything done but every image needs to be inspected. Storage has become a big problem. I shoot raw so an 8mp image is about 6mb RAW, do the math that is, yep, 21GB of images this month alone. It gets better though because every good computer user knows drives and media cards fail, so what do you do? Backup of course; so 21GB becomes 42GB and if you do what you are REALLY supposed to so and backup to two separate drives, thats right, 63GB this month.
So what have I learned?
14 May 2008 Robert 0 comments
This is a photo I took of a young man at our districts Camporee event two weeks ago. This is a great event where Scouts get to test their skills in shooting, fire building, knots etc. against other troops in the area. I had several people suggest that I submit it to Boys Life Magazine, so that’s what I did. If you like it please take a moment, click on the photo and rate it.
Wired.com has a an interesting article tody, 121 years after the first patent was filed for film by a 65 year-old clergyman in New Jersey. Its actually pretty interesting, the film we use in cameras today (remember film?) has remained largly unchanged for 100 years.
here is the link
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/05/dayintech_0502
02 May 2008 Robert 0 comments
Last night was the much anticipated talent show. The kids have been working on this for a long time; they did a song from High School Musical 2. There were a lot of really good acts and some not so good but they all gave it 100%. Here are a few pictures of the kids. Click for larger versions.
25 Apr 2008 Robert 0 comments
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