'The Project'

I have a fairly monsterous project that's been naggin for ooooo 14ish years. It's the boxes of old family photos we pulled from Grandma Doris' house. I've carted them around in a couple of boxes over the years and knew they needed to be sort through and some how documented and preserved. But just kept ignoring it. . .until last year at the Stuart family reunion, I realized Dad's not getting any younger and neither are any of Grandma's siblings, who are the few people who can help connect the dots with what we've got.

So I began to do a rough sort of the content for well on a few hours last year, but then things got really busy with work and all, but did manage to pull out a couple of slides and negative film most of which is at least 60 years old!! I began to relearn scanning with a new scanner that could handle various sizes/types of scans. (If you are in the market for one the Epson V500 is your biggest bang for the buck)

I've dabbled and displayed in my classes the basics of what I'm doing. Yah, I do Photoshop, but this is different Photoshoping. It's bringing people back to life and learning about family who got us to now. It's amazing what can be done!!

So these are just some quick edits and touch ups, now that I'm borrowing a small slide viewer to actually see what the heck I've got. Now remember you are seeing content from 60+ year old slides, often not well kept through the years AND your seeing the after a few quick tricks to spruce them up a bit. Sometime I'll have to show some before and after edits. Tonight's samples:



Remember you can click any image in the show, to go to the respective Google photo album to see them larger and zoom in if you want.

Provo Canyon

Last weekend we were in Provo Canyon for a small family gathering. As usual it was hot, the kids were busy playing (running to and fro between playground equipment and the river bank), and I had the camera out trying to capture a few of the small joys of the afternoon.

Now being that we don't have a fan-tabulous new digi-SLR camera (please Santa bring me something nice), our little Canon Elph is the main go to camera and I can't say enough about how much bang for the buck it has given us over the couple of years we have had it.

Here's some pics of the kids:

(Click in the lower left corner to see the individual images)

Question: What do you get when you take 9 overlapping shots of the "big mountain" (as the kids would say) in front of you and mix in a little Adobe Photoshop?

Answer: "Flying High" - Unlike my "Majestic Color" panaromic from last fall, this sky is the original and can you spot the eagle? I didn't until I got them home and Photoshop stitched them together. Hint: look just right of center in the sky or individual #6, it's small but it's there. If you have the ability to zoom in somehow you'll see it better.

(Click in the lower left corner to see the individual images)

Yes, I did a little correction and extra color saturation to make things a little more vivid. You should be able to tell the difference from the individual shots and final. I can't wait to get this one printed out! Looks good on 11" paper, but as panoramic print from Costco it will look even better.