How & Where To Choose A Leather Photo Album
May 4, 2012
This is my personal collection of leather photo albums
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:
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
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Photos On Canvas Of Your Children
February 3, 2012
Don't Let The Innocence Be Lost!
Photos on Canvas are a long-lasting way to show off your photo. While shopping, I came across a do it yourself kit for putting your photos on canvas. This got me to thinking about all the photos I could display in a whole new way. You can have a professional make up the canvas or you can go the do it yourself route.
The Professional Way
Oh how easy it is to upload your photos to a canvas photo website and let the professionals handle the rest. You do have to make a couple of choices before they get to work. You need to research what form of ink they use. Make sure it is archival grade ink. Most sites offer framed and unframed photos on canvas. One option is to get the canvas only or have the canvas stretched over artist stretch bars for a tight mount. Stretch bars also come in different thickness check your website for the sizes they offer. You can usually decorate the outside of the frame mount with the image wrapping around the mount or your chose of color. Once you choose the thickness of your mount then you can put a frame around the canvas. Every website differs as to what they are willing to do to a photo and at what price. They can enhance the picture but remember how good the picture looks is based on what it started as. You can also request touch ups for blemishes, red eye, whitened teeth or have objects removed from the photo. Do you want your photo in color, black and white or sepia? Read more
Create an Easy System For Archival Photograph Storage
January 14, 2010
The fun part of photography is undoubtedly taking the photographs and then creating beautiful prints with them. The dull but essential bit is making sure that your images are safely stored, so that they will last for the rest of your life and beyond. Backing up your photographs is often the last thing you feel like doing after a busy day out with the family. You can make it a lot easier for yourself if you create a simple and effective system for archival photograph storage.
For digital images one of the best storage methods is using special archival quality CDs and DVDs. These CDs are made of long lasting materials that are less liable to corrosion than regular CDs, so will protect the images saved on them for a very long time. So the first step to creating an easy storage solution is to buy a good stock of archival quality CDs and keep them close at hand, so that there is always one available.
Your back up CDs will soon mount up, so for dust free long term storage you will need a neat storage system to put them into. The first option is to purchase a set of CD storage boxes. It is best to buy from a photographic storage specialist so that you can be sure that the boxes are made of acid free materials. They will probably also come with corrosion protective sleeves too. Stack these boxes on shelves near your computer and it will be a simple task to back up your photos and just pop the latest CD into the storage box.
Another option is to store your archival CDs in pocket sleeves in album style ring binders, in which case you should again make sure that the sleeves are acid free and corrosion resistant.
Buy yourself a special acid free pen to label each CD with the date and subject matter of the photo files saved.
If you can just get yourself into the habit of backing up and storing your photos safely, you will have peace of mind that your photos are well protected. You’ll be able to access the photos easily at any time and won’t be caught short by your computer crashing and losing al your precious photos.
It’s up to you how often you back up your photos. If you take a lot of photos regularly you will probably want to burn a CD every week, but if you take just a few photos every now and then, you might not feel it is worth using a CD for just a few images. In that case back up the photos anyway, but onto a separate drive of your computer, a memory stick or an external hard drive. Collect your photos into a back up file over a certain period and then burn a CD once you have enough photos to make it worth while.
Of course if you take a really special photo that you would hate to lose, then burn it onto a CD straight away and never mind the wasted space… a precious photo of your baby’s first smile, or a once in a lifetime family reunion, is irreplaceable and you want to make sure it is as securely protected as possible.
Mum and Photographer
Archival Photo Storage Supplies
December 16, 2009
No matter what your photo storage needs, they can be met with the numerous kinds of archival photo storage supplies. There are storage systems for those who want to use boxes, albums, scrapbooks, or hang your pictures like file folders. There is a national standard for having a product be deemed archival safe. The American National Standards have given the recommendations on film and print storage.
Photo Boxes
Photo storage boxes come in a variety of sizes. Will you be storing your photos permanently in boxes or do you need a place to store them temporarily until you can store them differently? Do you need a place to store unfinished scrapbook pages without them getting messed up? Look into scrapbook size photo boxes. The photo storage boxes allow you to file your photos in a variety of manner, so they can be easily customized to your personal taste.
Albums and Scrapbooks
You can still have your photos in an album without have to scrapbook them. The album should not be the magnetic page style if you want your albums preserved for future generations. The adhesive on the pages will lead to yellowing and premature aging of the photos. You can make your own album placing archival grade pages in a three style binder that is archival grade. Scrapbooking is a fun way to tell the story of your photos. You will need storage for your photos that you are not currently using in the theme of your scrapbook. When shopping for scrapbook supplies make sure that they do mention that they are archival safe. True quality scrapbook supplies will be archival safe.
File Folders
You can put your photos in archive quality folders that can hang in your filing cabinet. Wondering where you should put all those negatives that you have floating around? There are specifically designed archive quality folders to store them, where they can be enjoyed for years to come. You can place slides you might have in these types of file folders.
Some exciting things have come out of the mass public is looking to store their photos long term. The scrapbooking world has become so large to accommodate all their fans. The supplies have come down in price. They are also offering more colors to match your décor. The supplies are easier to find and
there are more supplies to choose. Now that the general public knows how to preserve their photos, we just need to remember to identify the people in the pictures.
Last Minute Gifts for the Keen Photographer – Photo Storage Supplies
December 10, 2009
So we’re running out of time to do the Christmas shopping and there are still gifts to buy for important people in our lives. If we haven’t already ordered them it’s getting a bit late to create a personalized gift with special photos, but there are still gifts that we can get and make a little bit special for the keen photographer in our life.
One thing a photographer always needs more of is photo storage supplies. However many albums, boxes and memory cards they have, if they take a lot of photos they use up the space in no time. Now it may not sound like a very romantic or personal gift, but if it is something that your partner will really use, they’ll appreciate it far more than a conventionally romantic gift. To make a gift like this more personal there are plenty of things you can do.
Perhaps what your photographer partner most needs is more secure computer storage space for his or her photographic data. An external hard drive would be incredibly useful for that. They can use it as a back up, unplug it and keep it in a safe or other secure place, so that they always have spare copies of their precious photos no matter what happens to the computer. To give a personal touch to a gift like this, one idea would be, to plug the hard drive in secretly before you wrap it and save a special file on it to surprise your partner when they first use it. You could put on a photo that has precious memories for you both, a poem, a letter or just a loving message.
Does your partner only have one memory card for their camera? Why not get them a spare one, so that they never run out of space, even when you’re away on vacation. Small in size, this would make a thoughtful gift to put in a stocking or it can be tucked inside a hand-made Christmas card. Just make sure that you know the exact make and model of their camera before you go shopping, so that you get the right size of memory card.
If the photographer in your life prints out all their photos they are bound to need more photo albums. Take a look at the way they store their prints. Do they spend ages creating scrapbook style photo albums, or do they prefer to slot prints into pocket pages for speed and ease of storage? Buy them an archival quality photo album with plenty of pages and personalize it by tucking a special picture or poem into the first page.
All these gifts can be bought at the last minute at a photographic store, or there may just be time to order them online before Christmas, but check delivery dates before you order.
Mum and Photographer
