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 ;-) --------------------------------------------- Warning: I am now filtering my email, so you may be censored. **************Know Your Numbers: Get tips and tools to help you improve your credit score. (http://www.walletpop.com/credit/credit-reports?ncid=emlcntuswall00000002) -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
