Cedar Waxwing


Cedar Waxwing

Originally uploaded by Elaine with Grey Cats.

I finally had Roll2007.06 developed. And picked up. And read the CD to my computer. It’s a very birdy roll with gold finch, sparrow and Florida ospreys. The osprey photos are neat, and i note that had i had the telephoto to zoom in on the nest, i would never have caught the images in flight. There appears to be a great deal of grain in these photos. I don’t know if i could do better scanning in the images myself.

GoldfinchHouse SparrowOsprey on Honeymoon Island, FL

Photo management thoughts


So, yay, i’ve the CD, index print, and negatives all promptly loaded in to the binder. Lots of retrospective filing to do, but i’m very happy with the system.

I think, too, that i’ve got a handle on how to use iPhoto. This time, i took the images from the CD and loaded the preview scale images in the 2007Photo image repository. Then, i went through the “original” scale images with Preview and cropped the ones that needed cropping. I did some pruning of out of focus images as well. Sometimes i saved the crops “over” the preview scale, sometimes i saved them with a “crop” suffix. I know JPGs are lossy, and that the Preview crop tool may not be the best tool in the world, but i think this is an efficient use of disk space. Cropping full scale images in iPhoto keeps a backup copy, which is unnecessary with the CD.

All the previous 2007 rolls have the preview scale images loaded directly into iPhoto. I’m not sure if i’ll delete and reload them in this manner. I’ll probably adapt this workflow for the new camera, though. I can’t believe i’m beginning to fill up the laptop, but between the geospatial data sets and the seven megapixel camera, i do have suspects.

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