36yearsago.com
Vienna 1971—A Student Journal
A year of music, study, travel, sightseeing & friends.
Pictures
I was
a photography hobbyist in college, during this year in
Europe, and throughout my young adulthood. And today. Here
is some info.
This page. This page will contain links to
a variety of photo displays found in 36yearsago.com. There
will be some redundancy in that I will post many of the
same pictures to each type of photo presentation. I am
trying to discover the best way of presenting images to the
readers. So far, I like them all and may keep all of them.
As I try new ways, I will add them.
The pages.
Photos – The
Rapidweaver photo display. A
simple but effective way to display pictures. Each picture
is allowed a very short caption. Rapidweaver (Mac only) is
great web-page software from
Realmac
Software. Check them
out.
Slide shows
(Carousel)
–
This is a Rapidweaver plug-in that offers a Carousel-style
display of photos. The product is Carousel
from
Your Head
software.
YourHead produces some of the most popular Rapidweaver
plug-ins.
Flickr.com - Soon to
come. I will be testing the display of photos
from
my Flickr Pro
account (paid, free
option available) at
Flickr.com. Currently there
is only one set of published photos on the site from 2004,
a two-page center spread was published in the national
Ukrainian weekly newspaper, Svoboda.
These photos
were taken with a small point-and-shoot 4 mpx camera with a
tiny bit of cropping in iPhoto. I hope to publish all of my
36yearsago photos to Flickr.com. My screen name is
(guess)—36yearsago.
More info.
Slide
scans by DigMyPics. As I have already mentioned, I
have had over 600 35mm slides (36 years old) scanned by the
excellent service,
DigMyPics.com.
That process
occurred over the first 40 days of blogging. (Currently,
I have yet to post new photos to Days 30 through about
50, I believe). After receiving them, I started placing
them in the appropriate postings in the blog. As I
progress through the blog, I add new photos to both the
blog and the pictures area. I have not posted all of the
pictures that I have. These photos are under my
copyright, if you want to use them, just contact me.
Processing
the pictures with
Downsize.
Here is a bit of
info on how I process the pictures. I had the slides
scanned at 2000 dpi, I think you can go to a maximum of
4000 dpi. Those files are both TIFF and JPGs (I
requested both formats). I take the hi-res JPGS of the
original scans and "downsize" them (to a maximum of 480
px) with a brand new program that I bought called
Downsize
from
Stunt
Software. The reduction in size is
amazing, the quality is great. I like this program a
lot. I also add the watermark, 36yearsago.com.
I then drag
these final photos into the Rapidweaver pages at 480 px.
I reduce the size further in the blog pages within
Rapidweaver. Does this reduce the file size? Someone
please help me. Stunt Software produces other great
software, check out their website.
Attributing
photos. About photos, I want people to
know where the photos came from. One thing on the web that
is not fair, is when people use beautiful photos on their
sites without permission, and in most cases, they don't
attribute the photographer. As someone who is creative, I
have strong feelings about acknowledging the people who
took those beautiful photos. Thus, if you want to use any
of my photos on your website, just ask. I won't charge for
this use. I just want your visitors to know where the
pictures came from (to build traffic).
1971
Photos. Thus
far, 90% of the photos on the blog are my personal photos
that I have taken in 1971 with a Nikkormat 35mm camera
(50mm and 150mm zoom lens). I wish I had taken more photos
that year, but those were the days of buying film and then
paying for processing. I preferred 35mm slides instead of
prints. Today, I'm happy I made that decision. Photos
labeled as 2007 may be from a point-and-shot Nikon
4-megapixel; or even from my iPhone.
• John Maryn. All photos attributed to 36yearsago.com are ©
John Maryn 1971, 2007 and other designated years.
Other
photo sources. I have started to place a few
photos of my own from 2007 into the blog (so far, only from
the iPhone camera). A few earlier photos will be from a
Nikon point-and-shoot 4-megapixel. On my Flickr Pro
account, I will post some older photos (Ukrainian dance
festival, 2004) as well as the entire 36yearsago photos
section as some future point. I have already expanded my
use of photos beyond my own. There are currently only a
few. A few are public domain, and some are copyrighted. I
will contact the websites and remove them if they wish, or
add more if it is ok. I have watermarked the pictures with
the source websites. Thus far, I have used:
Austria-360.at,
panoramas.dk,
dativ.at
and
Wikipedia's
mediawiki.org
that contains
some PD images. I have linked to a few photos from
within Wikipedia to mediawiki.org, however, browsing the
website itself is not very intuitive. For example, a
search on "Vienna" comes up with no pages.
These are great
websites. Here is a list:
•
Austria-360.dk. Belvedere Palace (Day 035);
Schönbrunn Great Hall (Day 060)
•
Panoramas.dk. This website is run by
photographer Hans Nyberg. Photos: Austria National Library
Reading Room (Day 060)
•
Dativ.dk.
This website is run by photographer Bernhard Vogl. Photos:
Christmas in Vienna (Day 145)
Photographers.
I will try to list
the photographers whom I link to on this page and try to
include a tag for the person as well. Here are the
photographers I reference:
•
Bernhard Vogl. Belvedere Palace (Day 035);
Schönbrunn Great Hall (Days 026, 060); Christmas in Vienna
(Day 145)
•
Peter Winkler. Austria National Library
Reading Room (Day 060)
•
Kathy Schumacher. Kathy & Lisa (Day 125)
Tips
from the Top Floor. I can't let this photo area go
without mentioning a podcast that I discovered years
ago—tipsfromthetopfloor.com.
I love Chris
Marquardt's style and approach to photography. He has
a huge
international
following and offers photography workshops both in the
United States and Europe. We will not use his photos here,
but I highly recommend his site. Readers wishing to learn the
"art" of photography will get tons of tips on how to take
pictures if you listen to all the podcasts. Although his
tips are generally geared to users of digital-SLRs, they
are helpful to all; you will not be disappointed. Chris is
a great example of how good podcasts can generate
excitement with a global audience. Guess what? My Flickr
Ukrainian photos were mentioned on one of Chris' very early
shows.
Enjoy.
