Actually, I've just finished converting the home movies of my daughter to digital files that can be manipulated on the computer and then burned to dvd...that will take some time but I'm looking forward to having it accomplished! Lea ----- Original Message ----- From: "herschel mair" <herschelmair@xxxxxxxxx> To: "List for Photo/Imaging Educators - Professionals - Students" <photoforum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 1:19 PM Subject: Re: thoughts on the end of a big project > If you think THAT'S exciting... Try cinematography... even something a little past home video-movies is very rewarding and has amazing creative possibilities > h > > lea <lea@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Some of you know I've been photographing my niece, Rachel, for the past > year. She was born on February 24 and just celebrated her first birthday > last Thursday. Her 11 month portrait can be seen in the current gallery > here: http://www.rit.edu/~andpph/gallery/lmurphy.html Most of the > images were day-to-day types of things with occassional formal portraits > thown in for good measure (and because this past year I bought new > studio lights). > > Undecided about how to present the images to Rachel's parents (my sister > and her hubby) I finally settled on the idea of a multimedia presention > on dvd. What an incredible experience this has been. > > I began building the presentation 3 weeks ago by converting all the > digital images to bw in Photoshop. These were then put in chronological > order and renumbered in PS before I began building the presentation in > Roxio Multimedia 7. I added music from several of Rachel's music > cds...mostly very soft baby/child music on either guitar or piano. These > were clipped and edited to remove dead air space between songs so one > flowed into the next. Again, this was done from within Roxio. I placed a > slow-fade transition between each image which is very easy on the eyes. > There ended up being almost 400 images in the final presentation which I > finished last night and will present at Rachel's big birthday bash this > afternoon. > > All this is really a long way of saying that seeing what are > traditionally still images moving on a tv screen, presented with music > is a very powerful way to view photographs. This is the first time I've > seen my work this way and it's as if a door to a whole new world has > opened to me...and it will be a door I will enjoy traveling through > again and again. > > I encourage those of you who are so inclined to give it a try. > > Rachel's first year has come to an end and officially my project is over > but I've still not missed a day of shooting...so this may become a two > year project. We'll just have to see. > > > Lea Murphy Photography > www.whinydogpress.com > > > > > Herschel Mair > > H.O.D. Photography Dept, Higher College of Technology > Al Khuwair > Sultinate of Oman > 9899673 > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - Find what you need with new enhanced search. Learn more. >
