PHOTOGRAPHY AT VDOV [NEW GALLERY]
I should positively be asleep. But here I am, building this gallery. Storytime: I started my career as an amateur photographer in high school, of course, and was probably in the 10% of people in the class who took it at all seriously. There was this very loose structure that gave you an off-campus pass for an hour-and-a-half prior to lunch. Incidentally, this transformed into a 2.5 hr lunch period for most everyone.
Anyhow, I actually do it because I really love it. I’ve done family portraits for several people, it has served as a nice substitute for Christmas and birthday gifts at times, and I even once had a bunch of pictures framed in the window of Dotson’s Photo in downtown Bend, OR. Besides this, it has gone nowhere. However, my Mom has been very supportive in the equipment department recently, and I now have a very nice digital SLR (Canon EOS Rebel), and a new 75-300mm lens for it as of 12/25/2005. So I’d better start producing some things, eh?
So go check out my gallery, and I’d love to hear comments. You can leave them here…somewhere or another, or email me at smhollen at gmail dot com.
Acknowledgements: this is obviously a vdov production–thanks to acosta for all the work setting this up.
very nice!
I am afraid things are actually getting a little content rich around here!
thanks. :) If anyone has any suggestions on how to distinguish between dynamic galleries that I will continually add to versus static galleries (like white sands) that will never change…let me know. I was thinking that I could just change the highlight everytime I add photos, but this may be too subtle…
1) Gallery lists the last time you make a change so people know what has been updated.
2) You can always use subalbums.
3) Go into Gallery config mode and muck with the many settings. I like displaying the subalbum tree on the main page as I do in my Gallery.
4) Ignore everything I say because my Gallery has grown to a 900+ photo monster over the last several years and completely lacks decent organization.
Cheers.
hahaha… I was poking around in there the other day looking for the “Finals Suck” picture. I found it plenty fast.
I could do a subalbum tree, I like that idea. Though, I was thinking subalbums would be too much work for people looking at the site…I’ll always assume people are helplessly lazy…
Thanks for the suggestions.
Sounds like a perfect description of our own Anthony B. Costa.
I agree. Though I would say he is selectively lazy. With having to navigate artistic sites–abosolutely.
Speaking of photography, having never looked back at 35 mm since upgrading to my new EOS-1D digital SLR over a year ago, I have decided to sell a very nice package of my old film camera and other assorted goodies that are just sitting in my closet. I’ll give anyone interested here first crack before eBay:
Canon Elan 7e 35 mm body featuring IR eye tracking focus
Canon 28-135 f/4.5-5.6 zoom lens with Image Stabilizer option
Canon Speedlight 420EX flash
Sto-fen Omnibounce for above flash (white)
Cabled shutter release for the camera w/ bulb exp. lock
UV-Haze, FL-D, and 2-stop soft grad. neutral density filters
All optical components in perfect condition.
Anyone interested?
very nice mr. meyers…. that should fetch a good resale price.s