Hi,
I'm just starting out in photography. After a long marriage the "other half" decided to walk out without telling me why. All the legal things have been done and its been 2 years now. I'm therefore trying to fill my time and keep myself occupied now that the marriage is over and my kids are grown and no longer need me so much.
One of the things that I always said I would do when I had time was to sort out all the family photos and learn how to use a camera properly.
I have a number of little projects I want to begin with.
In order of priority
1) She wants half the portraits of the kids so I need to do copies of these for myself. They were professionally taken but we never got the negatives/digital files and can't trace the photographer who took most of them. As money is tight I need the most economic way of doing this but I wouldn't like to lose any quality. If this means get good digital copies which I can then get printed when I can afford it then so be it. Most of them are around A4 in size
At the moment the equipment I have is a good compact digital camera, my Samsun phone, my ipad , a scanner on my multifunction printer and a coloour laser printer.
If someone could give any advice or point me in the right direction for reading matter I would be very grateful.
Is buying a better scanner the way to go? Getting them scanned professionally? When it comes to printing them where should I go etc?
2) I have a lot of 35mm negatives and normal photos I want to scan to keep as backups and give to family. Are there any good videos , instructions on equipment and techniques to go about doing this?
3) After I learn how to use my compact digital camera properly and some basics in photography I would like to get myself a digital SLR , again money is an issue
I apologise if I have posted these questions in the wrong place and look forward to being active on here.
Terence
I'm just starting out in photography. After a long marriage the "other half" decided to walk out without telling me why. All the legal things have been done and its been 2 years now. I'm therefore trying to fill my time and keep myself occupied now that the marriage is over and my kids are grown and no longer need me so much.
One of the things that I always said I would do when I had time was to sort out all the family photos and learn how to use a camera properly.
I have a number of little projects I want to begin with.
In order of priority
1) She wants half the portraits of the kids so I need to do copies of these for myself. They were professionally taken but we never got the negatives/digital files and can't trace the photographer who took most of them. As money is tight I need the most economic way of doing this but I wouldn't like to lose any quality. If this means get good digital copies which I can then get printed when I can afford it then so be it. Most of them are around A4 in size
At the moment the equipment I have is a good compact digital camera, my Samsun phone, my ipad , a scanner on my multifunction printer and a coloour laser printer.
If someone could give any advice or point me in the right direction for reading matter I would be very grateful.
Is buying a better scanner the way to go? Getting them scanned professionally? When it comes to printing them where should I go etc?
2) I have a lot of 35mm negatives and normal photos I want to scan to keep as backups and give to family. Are there any good videos , instructions on equipment and techniques to go about doing this?
3) After I learn how to use my compact digital camera properly and some basics in photography I would like to get myself a digital SLR , again money is an issue
I apologise if I have posted these questions in the wrong place and look forward to being active on here.
Terence
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