Published June 23, 2009 07:56 pm - Last week I mentioned having visited my sophisticated 3-month-old grandson in New York state.
At any time, your photo may be taken ROBERT LEBZELTER column for June 28, 2009
Last week I mentioned having visited my sophisticated 3-month-old grandson in New York state.
Now don’t stop reading. This column is not about how cute he is or his quick smiles or baby blues. It would make a dandy column though, wouldn’t it?
No, this has to do with photography now and in the past.
OK, maybe it does have something to do with grandson Henry as well.
Leaving New York, I had nearly 250 photos of the little guy. Henry drinking a bottle. Henry at Best Buy. Henry doing tummy time.
Other, shorter visits with Henry have still resulted in well over 100 photographs.
A year ago, I scanned all of my grandfather’s slides into the computer and made CDs for the family. I found exactly one photo of my grandfather and myself when I was infant.
There might have been a dozen photos of myself as an infant altogether. My grandfather liked to take pictures and he wasn’t bad at it.
Even when son Derek was born and I took lots and lots of photos, the numbers pale in comparison to what I’ve taken of Henry.
The reason, of course, is we have reached the digital age. For Christmas, in anticipation of grandparentdom, I asked Santa for a new digital single lens reflex (or SLR) camera.
It is my second digital camera and allows me to take 3.2 frames per second. You can adjust settings to get pretty decent photos in low-light conditions without resorting to the flash. It also has an exceptional auto focus.
So the upshot is you don’t have to be Ansel Adams to take pretty decent photographs. You just adjust some settings, fill the lens with your subject, press the shutter and allow it to take picture after picture.
If you have a highly photogenic subject, like possibly a grandson, it is easy to accumulate photos.
After all, you don’t have to buy film at $4 to $6 a roll. You don’t have to pay $9 or so to develop and print all of the photos, whether you like them or not.
A $17 memory card, which costs about the same as a role of film and its development, can hold thousands of photos. After the photos are downloaded to computer or a CD, it can be used again and again.
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