I spent a good portion of my day yesterday working on my new Gallery pages. It’s been quite a bit of work, but I’m refining my workflow as I add content.
If you take a look in the S.C.C., Fall 2004>Photo Forum “Exposed” directory you’ll see that I’ve uploaded a bunch of images from school activities– specifically, from the SCC photo club’s photo show. I handed off a CD to the SCC faculty about a month ago so they could develop a web page about the event, but I thought it would be fun to show you all just how much work my fellow students put into their photography.
OK, let me say right here, right now, that I feel a little funny about posting pictures of people with their art. While most people are cool about this sort of thing, I do realize that others feel funny about having their picture published on a web site. The truth is that I don’t always know where I’m supposed to draw the line. I certainly do want to give credit where credit is due so I’ll try to provide links to other people’s web pages or put their name in the descriptions. I can always remove photos if people feel uncomfortable, but I’m not really sure that I’m legally obligated to. That said, if you have any questions or comments about this issue, please comment or send me an email.
Getting back to my latest little project, I’m finding it very interesting to see how my technique is evolving with my D-70. This is the first time that I’ve scrutinized the quality of my images to this degree. The pictures that were taken of the Photo Forum event were some of the very first I’d made with my new camera, so I only had the 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5 zoom lens that came with the D-70 Outfit. Many of those images were captured in Auto with my Image Quality set to Normal. Beyond that fact that none of these early shots take advantage of depth of field, there is a remarkable amount of pixelation in the original images.
I knew before I ever started shooting with this camera that I should be shooting in RAW, but I wanted to have some experience with the lower setting. Recently, I’ve been shooting entirely in RAW, and now that I have a 50mm f/1.8, I’m better prepared for low light conditions (at close range). Comparing old images to newer ones, I can really see the difference.
Anyway, today has been a lot more of the same. I’ve been adding photos to my Gallery section throughout the day, hoping to get this tackled so I can more on to other projects.
