Tonight I finished scanning and retouching a lifetime of slides. That's 6,300 slides give or take.... I am happy to have them done, and I learned a few things. 1. My camera was often out of adjustment and lots of the pictures I took are crap. 2. Garbage in garbage out: if it was a nice clear, well-exposed slide the jpeg turned out well. If it was a poorly exposed photo, there wasn't much iPhoto could do to make it better. Overexposed slides corrected much better than underexposed slides. 3. I took way too many slides! It gets so you can't tell one Memorial Day gathering from the next and the repetitive ones got boring. 4. I LOVE digital photography!!!
I'm not sure by whom or how the images will ever be used, but they are ready and waiting. Included in this post is a jpeg from the first carousel, one from somewhere in the middle, and one from the final carousel before I switched to digital.
Scanning has been my life
Can you find Dickie at the LTM in 1965?
Most of the family in London, 1988
With Katy Kathryn on the Herefordshire Beacon in 2004 --
she was already digital at this point
One thing I know for sure: Kris will be happy to have use of the computer again!
That's all for now.
OXO
D.
Scanning has been my life
Can you find Dickie at the LTM in 1965?
Most of the family in London, 1988
With Katy Kathryn on the Herefordshire Beacon in 2004 --
7 comments:
Where was I during the foundry picture? Sulking somewhere? Stupid 13 year old! Congratulations on finishing the HUGE!!! project.
Emily: I was actually wondering the same thing and came to the same conclusion. Of course I love you anyway.
D.
PHEW!! What a GINORMOUS undertaking!! This is all very exciting and even though you may feel that you have taken way too many slides, our lives are all very well documented which is awesome! I can't wait for more digital slideshows!! I love ya sir, whiteness and all!!
Wow! Kudos to you! Love the pictures.
I hope that the next project involves a few DVD slide shows for all of us. I would love to see out lives in retrospect. May I borrow the scanner? I want to get our slides scanned before we move.
Anna: DVDs are in the plans. Yes, you may borrow the scanner.
D.
Well done! There is no such thing as to many slides!
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