On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 7:14 PM, <eactiv...@aol.com> wrote: > As some may have "heard," I've being doing a calendar. Not all printed yet, > but some pages printed. > > In case you are curious... > > http://www.mapphotography.com/PAWS/pages/calendar.htm > > Most of you will have seen most of them. (Screen shots as it is laid out in > Word.) > > I need a small calendar for myself, thus the size. For my friend I will just > not cut them down. > > The rest is FYI, in case you've been thinking about doing a calendar > sometime. > > It's been an interesting project and these are the results/side > effects/things I discovered: > > 1. Did it in Word. Works okay, but there may be something better. Because I > liked none of the templates, I created tables and had to type in my own > numbers (this is the part that could work better). I have Word 2000, so I > downloaded the Office 2007 trial to try it (was hoping for gradient color in > text, > nope). Ugh. Though I could get used to it eventually, Word 2007 slowed me > down. > So I found a plug-in that would create "Classic Menus" in all Office > products (there are several plug-ins) and then found I could handle 2007 > just fine. > :-) I would definitely want a traditional menu until I learn the new > interface. (Haven't decided if will keep after trial.) > > 2. I upgraded from Lightroom 1 to 2. I don't see major differences but it > does let me catalogue pictures on different drives better. Going through > pictures for calendar encouraged me to use Lightroom to organize my pictures > even > more. Still working on that. (Lightroom 2 does seem slightly better at that.) > > 3. I haven't shot as many photos as I thought since going digital. 11,000+ > and a big chunk of those are pictures of things I sold on ebay. > > 4. There are shots hidden in my "archive" here and there that aren't bad, > that I sort of like that I missed on my first pass through as I pulled out > the > more dramatic/better shots. It is interesting to go back through and find new > things, though I don't seem to find any gems. If they are there, I got them > on first pass through. ;-) > > 5. It was actually pretty hard to come up with 12 decent landscape shots. 12 > Decent shots that would "fit" the month they were for. > > 6. So what I got (am getting) the most out of going through my archive is > noticing what I "did wrong" or at least did not do right. Noticing bad > framing, > or almost GOOD framing, just missing by a bit. That is what I've noticed the > most, a picture that will almost be there, but not quite. So overall been > noticing: hasty framing, hasty shooting (movement in picture), and sometimes > bad exposure (hasty exposure, that is less frequent with all the camera bells > and whistles warning me). > > What I've always known that I need to do to be a better photographer -- slow > down, frame better, think about it more. But I have definitely been having > that confirmed going through my archives. > > Not a bad exercise for anyone. (Archives or calendar.) > > (Unless you're one of the people on my hate list then all your shots are > probably good.) > > Marnie aka Doe ;-)
That's just excellent work, Marnie. I think that would be most sale-able for 2010 (being a bit late for 2009...). You should try marketing it; I think it would do well. cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
