Three Dimensional Objects - Download and Hit Print

Wow - You have a photo printer and can now download a photo and print it yourself - so what about if you need a screwdriver - download the design and print it yourself on your 3D printer - or use your 3D printer to make another 3D printer for a friend ... here is the blog post that I ran across ... amazing.JHG Blog: Print Yourself a Chair ... and Have a Seat-Rr

So we took the dogs to the mountains ...

Monday we took the dogs to the mountains. We have a secluded spot we like to go where we hardly ever see anyone else and I really wanted to see how the dogs (Katie and Joey) would do off leash.

So we packed up and I brought a long rope and a bag of their favorite treats just in case ... we first stopped at an open park like area with no underbrush just in case the little one went crazy (ten years old - we have only had her with us 6 weeks). So we started walking and the dogs went ahead 50 ft. - I turned and went up the hill on a dirt road and clicked for them to follow ... and they did :-) so we went up the hill and back and they were good.

Now off to our little spot ... did I mention we brought our hammock?


Well, Joan wanted to read and was feeling a bit like I was sitting there watching her - so she suggested I take them for a walk ... I started off into the woods, they would get to spots that were hard for them to walk through - they would slow down and figure it out - this photo is when I looked back and saw them saying 'you really want us to walk on this' - (I turned around and backtracked the way we came - and going back they went a lot faster because now they knew the way ... dogs are pretty darn smart).


So we went out to the dirt road and up a long hike to the top of the hill ...


And yeah, it was warm :-)

I was thrilled, the whole hike, only a couple of pats on the leg for them to follow when they were distracted by something ... really felt like pack leader :-)

Katie can look so dam regal ...

We let the dogs wander where they wanted (keeping a sharp eye) - I was there to learn them, Katie prowled around a bit and stopped in the light like a deer ... wow ...


It was getting dark, we are reading and the dogs are resting. A real wonderful day and I am saying we should go - Joan is saying just let me read a bit more - neither of us wanted it to end - we finally pulled ourselves out of the revere and headed down the hill ...


This will be one of those favorite days - thanks for letting me share it with you!
-Rr

Jodie becomes Joey - our new Cairn Terrier

So this really nice lady came into our studio on June 25th (Eleakis & Elder Photography - shameless SEO plug...) with this cute dog to take advantage of our Chow for Charity promotion (A photo session and 5x7 for pet food that we then donate) so that she could have a portrait taken of her dog - so she could find it a home. She is having back/health problems where she can't bend over and couldn't take care of Jodie any more - a real heart wrenching decision for her.

I took a look at Jodie and spent a few minutes to get to know her and said we could skip taking a photo - I could take her if she thought that would be OK. Jodie is ten years old and is a real sweetie and is working out great and gets along super with Katie, our Kerry Blue Terrier.

Joan (my wife) had a problem with the name Jodie (I have a cousin named Jodie) ... but Joan's cousin Joey said to name her Joey - so she's Joey now ... :-) ...

...and here she is in our back yard ...

-Rr

So you want pickles with that do you? I'll give you pickles!

A client came into our studio the other day for some tutoring. She had some questions about Photoshop Elements, and she wanted to see if I could help her with a problem ...

The Problem

Her family had gone to another photographer for family photos (who I won't name) with the understanding that they would be able to purchase the digital images (some of the family members are amateur photographers). The photographer said yes, and then sized the finished images for 8x10 and told the family that they wouldn't work for making 11x14's, which is what they wanted.

Well, this led to a discussion between the family and the photographer, who finally decided to wash their hands of it and give the family the 'original images' ...

The Photographer's Solution

The photographer gave the family a disc with, what they said, were the original images. For the photographers out there, each image was in tiff format and the long edge was 40 inches at 300dpi ... 240 MB files each! The image files were so large that the family thought that something was wrong with them because they couldn't get them to transfer to their computers.

So you said you want pickles with that do you? I'll give you pickles!

Our Solution

We created 11x14's sized images in the highest quality jpegs, our software did the conversions while we talked Photoshop - for non photographer's that means usable quality images. So we end up being the heros - not something I am ever prone to argue with ... this just goes to show (and remind us once again) how meeting expectations and good communication are the key to happy clients.

-Rr