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Our daughter, Sara, has started a new new photoblog called “Sara’s 100 Days of Photos“. Every day she posts a new photo with information on how it was taken and the camera settings. I love the idea but am not sure I would have the discipline to post a new photo every day. Wonder if I could just collect 100 photos and then post one of them each day. It is a great idea to get more involved with photography.
Here is just one example of her work that I really like. With the blurred background and the composition of the photo, tipping the camera at an angle changes this from a good photo to a great photo.
Photo was taken with a Nikon D80, f/5.6, 1/60 sec., ISO-100, 175 mm
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I usually create a family picture calendar each year for ourselves and each of our family members. I started the tradition some years ago when I would create individual pages and print them in color on my ink jet printer. I would then hand assemble the pages and take them down to Staples to have them bound. Last year I used an online service which worked rather well but it took a lot of time uploading individual pictures and it was hard to see how it really would look. This year I decided to try the iPhoto program on my Mac. It was the slickest experience ever for creating a calendar.
I first went through all the 2007 photos I had and selected about ten times more than I would eventually use. For each month you can select a template from 1 to 7 photos. The photos I had preselected all appear in a bar on the left and you just drag them to the picture area. You can add any text to the calendar portion. When we were all satisfied, we just clicked the Buy Button. It assembles everything and uploads to Apple for printing. This screen shot shows what it looked like inside iPhoto (click to enlarge)
