On 5/31/07, Andrew Gray shimgray@gmail.com wrote:
On 31/05/07, K P kpbotany@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah, there are millions of folks who can identify things later. Except that it's much easier to do it up front.
The other problem is that, with aircraft, the notice saying what it is is usually a long way away from the good point for an overall picture, which is a little less true for flowers :-)
It's a freebie. Do as you like, but sometimes it's nice not to have to think or seek, especially when the information is right there at hand
just
for the clicking. Even when I'm not dealing with 16,000 images at a
pop,
it's easier.
I did an entire museum a little while ago - the trick I used was to do two seperate sets of photos, the good camera taking high-res shots of every artifact and the small compact running off lots of context photos ("here is the entire cabinet") and pictures of labels, etc. Put the two sets together, sort by timestamp, and you're done.
[Or would be had I not forgotten to set one of them to daylight savings. Still, it was a nice first attempt...]
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- Andrew Gray
andrew.gray@dunelm.org.uk
Yeah, I do this if I'm shooting in gardens, take two cameras, shoot the label and broad shot, then shoot the images I want with my good camera. Also for my art. For me the flowers don't always come with signs, except for the ones I'm growing. When I shoot in the field I take a cheap sketch book and a marker and write a sign and shoot it. But yes, with air shows the signs are often also crowded with the other folks at the air shows, and not usually are they the one shot of the plane you want (cutting off nose and tail)--still, it can be useful.
We're getting more articles on non-French/English war machines, like the Turk I bullied into working on Turkish battleships, so if there are non-Western European planes, get good pictures of those.
Wikipedia has some devoted folks taking good pictures.
KP