How & Where To Choose A Leather Photo Album

May 4, 2012

Some of the most attractive and safest photo albums are a leather photo album that consists of acid free archival material in both the album cover and the album pages.  This post is the last in a series that I have written on the best and safest ways to store your precious images of your children and grand children.  For either a refresher or a complete understanding of this subject, you may want to reference these two previous posts by clicking on these titles:

1. How To Store Pictures Of Your Children
2. Do You Need A Photobox To Store Your Pictures?

Although photo storage may not be as exciting a subject as those in some of my other posts, this information is still is very important to fulfilling the complete picture of enjoying your personal photography involvement with your children.

When I was a young girl, many times we would go to my grand parents for a Sunday dinner  which almost always consisted of my Grandma’s fried chicken, homemade biscuits, gravy, mashed potatoes, cranberry jello relish, and her own homemade chicken noodles.  I even remember her rolling out the egg noodles in her country kitchen and then hanging them on a linen towel over the back of a kitchen chair to dry the Saturday before.  And to top it off, she raised the chickens and the eggs, and the potatoes had been grown in her garden.  Any milk came from their cows; not much was store bought in those days.  I sometimes think that kids today are missing a lot by not seeing all of this happen. Read more

Part III Introduction To The Use Of A 35mm Digital SLR Camera

March 14, 2012

To Obtain The Dates Of The Pictures, Download Images Directly From Your Camera . . .

When Laurie Beth is downloading her pictures to the computer, I recommend using the camera because that way you get the dates the pictures were taken, and I find this a convenient way to file them. You can always remember that you took that camping trip in 2011 and easily come close to finding the images that you are looking for. My card reader just downloads the pictures, but does not give me the dates that they were taken. I also recommended that she might want to get a Canon AC Adapter Kit ACK-E2 to replace the camera battery during downloading. This is a plug in the wall DC coupler and nearly eliminates the chance that there will be a power interruption during downloading which can possibly cause you to lose your images. At the very least, she should use a completely charged camera BP-511 during the interim when downloading the JPEGS from this small card.

While Laurie Beth was practicing using the Canon D60, we discussed some basics for picture taking including early morning, late afternoon, and cloudy bright days as being the best picture taking times outdoors. Of course, this means that the worst picture taking time is during the middle of the day especially hours in front and following high noon. This is because of the very bright highlights and the dark shadows caused by sunlight are ranges that the camera is unable, at the present level of technology, to capture both ends of simultaneously. And remember to take the picture of the subject with your camera in the same light as the subject. So, if your subject is in the shade, have the camera in shade also. This will help the camera to meter properly. Equally, important is composure and you should strive to fill your frame with your image in such a way that it leaves no question in the minds of your viewer as to the reason that you took this picture. The second important component of composure is the use of the very visually pleasing 3:1 ratio whenever you can. This is called the rule of thirds, or the golden triangle, which can be researched on the internet for a deeper understanding. Read more

Part II Introduction To The Use Of A 35mm Digital SLR Camera

March 7, 2012

How To Change The Lens Of A 35mm Digital SLR Camera. . .

Next, Laurie Beth and I worked on the proper changing of the camera lenses. It’s import to find a safe, clean place to change a lens. The camera has a release button on the side of the lens; push this button while rotating the lens so that the red dot on the lens is just under the top of the camera. The lens will then easily come off. Immediately put this lens down with the lens contacts up, and take the protective contact cover from the new lens off and place it on the contact side of the just removed lens. Do not touch the lens contacts (this is where all of the information from the lens to the camera is transferred) and immediately line up the red dots on the camera lens and the camera, very gently and carefully, until the lens lays flat against the camera body, and then turn the lens one quarter turn towards the release button until the lens locks in place. This is best done while laying the camera on a flat protected surface. Also, don’t change lenses any more than needed because each time you expose the inside of the camera, you risk getting dust on the sensor. Also, do not do this in direct sunlight, because of possible damage to the sensor.

In all of the years that I have used this camera, I have never had to clean the sensor which speaks volumes to being careful about getting your camera into dust & dirty areas, and changing your lenses with due care. If you have to clean your camera sensor due to dust, I would recommend that you have a professional do it and watch them so that you can determine if this is something that you would want to safely take on in the future. Dust left on the camera sensor will leave spots on your images. Read more

Introduction To The Use of a 35mm digital SLR Camera

March 1, 2012

What Is A 35mm SLR Camera?

A lot of people today would be surprised that there are many others who ask “what is photography” and what is a “35mm SLR camera?” The simple answer for “what is photography” is that: Photography today is the use of a electro-mechanical device (a camera) for capturing images by using light to write on a medium (film or memory cards) that will record the image.  The “35mm” refers to the size of the film used in 35mm film cameras.  The “SLR” refers to the term “single lens reflex” identifying this special type of camera. This means that this type of camera uses a mirror and prism system (a mirror which reflects the image) and lets the photographer see exactly what will be captured by looking directly through the lens. Read more

Teaching My Husband Photography

July 13, 2010

In an interesting turn of events my husband has suddenly taken an interest in photography, much to my delight! And, on Sunday last, we went to the baptism of our latest grandchild, and he took the camera and snapped a number of photos, including some of our older children.

Earlier in the week he asked me to travel with him to Kalamazoo, MI to go to “The Air Zoo.” Not a difficult thing to do, because I am also a pilot and am always interested in airplanes. He wanted to learn how to take interesting photos of aircraft at the zoo to use on his website All Things Aviation.

As we were working together he pointed out that I was not much of an instructor, having this deep seated desire to make all of the camera adjustments myself while explaining what I was doing. Oh – this is important – I met my husband when he taught me to fly airplanes! So I begin to realize that teaching my husband photography does not come natural to me! Read more

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