A boy and his dog

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My grandson, Logan, and Trixie.. Note the Light Saber, Lolo has just gotten into the Star Wars epics and now goes nowhere without his Light Saber. In fact we are about to watch The Return of the Jedi again this morning in a few minutes.

I was playing with off camera flashes and posterboard reflectors for this shot, the illumination is almost entirely by two reflected flashes. I really like the Sony wireless flash setup, it's so much easier than the old PC cords.

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1. What a sweet picture!

Was he really asleep or posing for the camera?

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2. He's been a bit under the weather, he was actually asleep..

A good opportunity to practice my flash techniques, I nearly tanned him I flashed so many times.

Did I mention how much I like digital cameras and the ability to take unlimited pictures?

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3. That's the very best part.

I never even learned how to do photography (aside from snapshots) until digital arrived. I would have spent a fortune. :)

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4. Eh, I *did* spend a fortune..

And I've still learned a lot more since I went digital. The ability to get immediate feedback is the best teaching tool there is.

I have at least four large plastic totes full of negs and prints. One of these days I'm getting a slide copying setup for my camera and spend a month or so copying all the negatives to digital.

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5. I'd like to do that with some of my dad's old slides, too.

My brother inherited the prints and I inherited the slides. He gets the instant gratification -- I get the squinty eyes. And since there are literally thousands of them, I could go blind.

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6. An ad hoc/shade tree way to copy slides is to put them in front of a monitor with a white area

On the screen and set up a tripod and your camera in macro mode.. Space the slide far enough away from the screen so the dots are well out of focus. I taped a holder to the screen and could shoot about 15 slides per minute that way.

I used to have a Nikon Coolpix 995 that was excellent for this, best macro mode I've ever had, it was practically a microscope.

They go for cheap on ebay these days.

Edited for speling.