OT - Do YOU get in FRONT of the camera?

Carlos' thread made me realize that I have no photos of me with my dad, our family photographer while I was growing up. Then I thought about how few I have with me and my boys. Time to get busy, use the tripod and the remote. That's why I have it, after all.

What about the rest of you?
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Theresa Kelly
http://theresak.smugmug.com/
Oly E-3OO + some other stuff

Constructive criticism always welcome!

Up untill last Xmas (That's when I got my wife a Stylus 300), I was never in any of our pictures. Now I am a lot of our family gathering photo's.
But here's something to ponder.

What is going to happen to our images...will we be a lost generation? Think about it. Everybody's parents seem to have a big old box of pictures in the attic that get taken out once in a while for everyone to go through. I can remember sitting around as a family looking through all of these pictures, laughing, wondering who some of these people were in some old B&W pictures from the 20's or 30's. Heck, even my parents didn't know who they were. We would have 6 to 10 people sitting around riffeling through the big old box. What will our families do when we get old? Sit around the TV? It wouldn't be the same. Who will back up the CD's every 5 years when we get old? Will there be CD's when we get old?

Sometime I fear that we will be the lost generation as far as family images go. I know my family wouldn't sit around the TV for hours looking at one picture at a time. It's just not the same.
What do you think? Maybe this should be a seperate thread!

Larry O
http://www.pbase.com/losiowy
E10, Tcon 14B. Mcon35, FL50
E1, 50-200, TC1.4

Common problem.

There is a big chunk of my life with little photographic evidence that I existed. Now my wife is always taking pictures of me but we rarely set up the tripod or put the camera on a rock or table to do a picture together. It's always done by a passer by.

PS I need a new eye cup/piece and saw in another thread that you bought the one for around $19. Is it better then the one that came with the E300 and can you see the numbers on the right any better? I'm afraid the new ME-1 will make seeing the numbers harder with glasses on.
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Allen C.

Travel in RV when not home.

Interesting thought but I print out tons of them that my wife puts in albums. I do have DVD and CD backups but doubt if they will be viewed.
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Allen C.

Travel in RV when not home.

I scrapbook mine, which includes journaling about the events portrayed in them. I hope my children and grandchildren will enjoy them for decades.
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Theresa Kelly
http://theresak.smugmug.com/
Oly E-3OO + some other stuff

Constructive criticism always welcome!

Allen Chernack said:

Common problem.

There is a big chunk of my life with little photographic evidence
that I existed. Now my wife is always taking pictures of me but we
rarely set up the tripod or put the camera on a rock or table to do
a picture together. It's always done by a passer by.

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I really have to work on that myself.

Allen Chernack said:

PS I need a new eye cup/piece and saw in another thread that you
bought the one for around $19. Is it better then the one that came
with the E300 and can you see the numbers on the right any better?
I'm afraid the new ME-1 will make seeing the numbers harder with
glasses on.

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I like it better, there is no magnification but it is larger and keeps your glasses a smidge farther back. I don't know why, but that makes it easier to read. I didn't like the original eyecup at all, didn't even care when I lost it. The ME-1, for me, was a waste of money.
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Theresa Kelly
http://theresak.smugmug.com/
Oly E-3OO + some other stuff

Constructive criticism always welcome!

I don't print enough of my images......I better get cracking.

Larry O
http://www.pbase.com/losiowy
E10, Tcon 14B. Mcon35, FL50
E1, 50-200, TC1.4

That was taken with a Nikon EM, no tripod. I just picked up the remote so I plan on taking plenty of pictures now with me in them.



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Travis - E-300

Thanks for your opinion. Mine came off without me knowing. I'll get the cheaper one.
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Allen C.

Travel in RV when not home.

I don't feel I'm very photogenic.

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But not having shots of me with my dad made me realize that it doesn't matter to the people who love you. Get on the other side of that cam once in awhile!
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Theresa Kelly
http://theresak.smugmug.com/
Oly E-3OO + some other stuff

Constructive criticism always welcome!

Did you shoot that in B&W or convert it? If you converted it, what was your process?
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Theresa Kelly
http://theresak.smugmug.com/
Oly E-3OO + some other stuff

Constructive criticism always welcome!

That's a good thought. Point a camera at me & the lips clench together the go away look turns on I just automatically go into the no photo mode. My wife gets the odd candid one from a mile away or when I'm concentrating on something else.

As for looking at photos well, there are untold slides, hundreds of prints, thousands of digital images, but looked at rarely. You know now that you mention it it really is a shame, will really have to see what can be done about that—David

From now on, I'm going to ask you to post my thoughts!

I'm rarely in front of the lens. I prefer to preserve my legacy by making the image rather than being a part of it. That's a shortcoming on my part, I know.

All of my children are computer literate and I share those "personal" images with them so that they can do with them as they wish.

My daughter saves them (I taught her how to do this! ) and my son looks at them and i don't know what he does with them afterwards. I hope that he keeps them somewhere.

I have digital copies of images made of my grandparents ( I just turned 60 ) and these are priceless. My Dad passed away 24 years ago and thanks to digital technology, I still have images of this great man.

Last September my Mom celebrated her 80th birthday and my little sister (now 55 years old) organized a reunion. Thankfully, I was able to capture a few images, with the use of the RM-1, of all the generations and all of the Turners gathered at this event. Unfortunately, I'm included in these images.

Every one of the valuable images has been printed on archival paper so that, hopefully, my grandsons and granddaughters can, in the future, access these images to preserve the legacy by whatever method is used in the future.

This, as always, is a very good post from you. Something to think about.

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Regards,
(afka Wile E. Coyote)
Bill
PSAA
Equipment in profile.

If you can visualize it, then create it in the camera, finish it off with the print that matches your mind's eye then you are, most likely, a master...

Whenever I set up to take a pic of my family...I peek...I want the E300 to continue working....
Or I have someby else take the shot...like this:



My wife just hung this one up...

Carlos

I think that we, as photographers, are often very self-concious about what we percieve to be our own visual shortcomings. But our kids don't care and although they love the legacy of their childhood memories, I can't help but believe that they will feel like I do, that something somehow is missing.

Although my boys used to argue with me, they now cave into my wishes and let me photograph them. Now they give me things to include in their scrapbooks, I just need to get more of my mug in there too!
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Theresa Kelly
http://theresak.smugmug.com/
Oly E-3OO + some other stuff

Constructive criticism always welcome!

It was shot with color film. I scanned it, and converted it in Gimp (I can't afford PS).

Goto the filters menu> colors> channel mixer. You can adjust the output levels of Red, Green, and Blue. Make sure to click on Monochrome, and your output channel levels add up to 100%. I play the conversion by eye with whatever produces the best contrast. Most "built-in" conversions use a standard conversion level, that's why some come out great, and others are very flat.

Theresa K said:

Did you shoot that in B&W or convert it? If you converted it, what
was your process?
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Theresa Kelly
http://theresak.smugmug.com/
Oly E-3OO + some other stuff

Constructive criticism always welcome!

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Travis - E-300

This thread is your fault, you know!

You do frame them better than your pal but it's still a nice shot. My husband insisted on putting one of me on our fridge that I don't particularly like. When I went to take it down, he protested that 'it was the only one he had'.
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Theresa Kelly
http://theresak.smugmug.com/
Oly E-3OO + some other stuff

Constructive criticism always welcome!

I can't afford Photoshop either, unless I want to sacrifice some glass. Typically, I desaturate then play with the contrast, but I am always open to ideas.
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Theresa Kelly
http://theresak.smugmug.com/
Oly E-3OO + some other stuff

Constructive criticism always welcome!

This is me with my pride and joy, Jake. I am conveniently hidden behind the hat and sunglasses. Now getting my wife in front of the camera..different story.