Wow, I finally finished my first real photo archiving job. I was asked to archive a couple hundred old photos and negatives from the 1950s-1980's. It included old family photos, school photos, birth records, old school paperwork, other family documents and crazy-old negatives! The negatives were "tricky" and took days to complete. They were old 2 1/4" x 2 1/4" (aka: medium format) negatives! My mission was to scan all the items, both in an archival format (TIFF, 50-100MB per file) and display format (JPG - 1-7MB per file), and then organize them all onto DVDs. I got to use a lot of new and old skills, including: photo stitching, multi-format editing, color corrections, creating archival DVDs, DVD packaging, and DVD labeling.
It was both intense and exciting! I'm looking forward to doing more archival-based work (as well as getting photography in now that I'm done with this project!).
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Saturday, January 8, 2011
Photo 365 - Day 151 (Turning Train)
Day 151 (December 1st, 2010)
Title: Turning Train
Woo! I finally made it to December! I'm getting there, slowly but surely!
I love trains. I've always loved trains. I remember, when I was 8-9 my uncle got me this giant poster of a blueprint of a train engine. I put it up on my wall and just stared at it everyday. I'm not sure exactly what it is about trains that I love so much, but whenever I see one, I just have to stop and watch it (much to the chagrin of any friend who might be with me!). They are a part of American history and culture - without them I don't think the industrial revolution would have really taken hold in the US, and we never would have become the world power we are now (whether that's good or bad, who knows...).
This particular train was taking a curve in Hercules when I shot it. I heard it coming and this was one of the few times I actually HAD my camera with me (its strange, but 90% of the time when I see a train, I never have my camera with me). I thought this photo was particularly amusing because it really looks kinda like a train-set train, rather than a huge, massive, machine. I can almost imagine it falling off the track and picking it up and realigning the wheels to see if off again. Thankfully that didn't happen, and off it went!
Enjoy!
Title: Turning Train
Woo! I finally made it to December! I'm getting there, slowly but surely!
I love trains. I've always loved trains. I remember, when I was 8-9 my uncle got me this giant poster of a blueprint of a train engine. I put it up on my wall and just stared at it everyday. I'm not sure exactly what it is about trains that I love so much, but whenever I see one, I just have to stop and watch it (much to the chagrin of any friend who might be with me!). They are a part of American history and culture - without them I don't think the industrial revolution would have really taken hold in the US, and we never would have become the world power we are now (whether that's good or bad, who knows...).
This particular train was taking a curve in Hercules when I shot it. I heard it coming and this was one of the few times I actually HAD my camera with me (its strange, but 90% of the time when I see a train, I never have my camera with me). I thought this photo was particularly amusing because it really looks kinda like a train-set train, rather than a huge, massive, machine. I can almost imagine it falling off the track and picking it up and realigning the wheels to see if off again. Thankfully that didn't happen, and off it went!
Enjoy!
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