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Sunday, October 3, 2010
Here we are in Venice. Things were pretty warm there, hence the lack of coldwear. We were there in June, and it was always a frantic bid to finish our holiday homework when we got back from those month long trips.
Here's a photo that I think aged really nicely. With SLRs, of course, one couldn't preview shots, and film as well as the development of film was expensive. I'd agree that the way people took pictures then, and the way things are done now, are as with a lot of other things, made simpler and require less thought.
See if you can tell who is who. This was taken in the Blue Goose Hotel, I believe at the end of the trip when my dad had some spare exposures left.
Yet another picture that has aged nicely. Of course, ageing is not everything, my dad also was able to frame the shot nicely.
The famous Spanish Steps. Hence the whole lot of people.
My mom getting a caricature done by the many buskers who were touting the same trade. Not sure what happened to the piece in the end, but I think we all agreed it wasn't fantastic, haha.
Piazza Navona. My whole family agrees that Isaac has changed the most, of all four of us.
Not sure what the name of this building is... I do know that the Pope is supposed to live in there, though. It's within the Vatican City. Those low barriers were there for some event, I can't recall which.
posted by joseph at 12:57 PM
Sunday, October 3, 2010
My dad digitalised a few of his old photo negatives recently, something that cost him a pretty penny, apparently. Joel and I have them uploaded to our hard disks to keep forever, although given the time they have been kept away, the negatives have aged and developed a slight tint. In those 8 years, the whites have yellowed quite a bit, but the result has interestingly turned out to look pretty nice. What's also interesting is the quality of the prints. My dad's old SLR photo occupies an average of 500kb, whereas any self-respecting DSLR today would have an image size of about 3mb. Here are some of the pictures, taken during our month-long trip to Europe in 2002. It's been eight long years.
Here we are in Venice. Things were pretty warm there, hence the lack of coldwear. We were there in June, and it was always a frantic bid to finish our holiday homework when we got back from those month long trips.
Here's a photo that I think aged really nicely. With SLRs, of course, one couldn't preview shots, and film as well as the development of film was expensive. I'd agree that the way people took pictures then, and the way things are done now, are as with a lot of other things, made simpler and require less thought.
See if you can tell who is who. This was taken in the Blue Goose Hotel, I believe at the end of the trip when my dad had some spare exposures left.
Yet another picture that has aged nicely. Of course, ageing is not everything, my dad also was able to frame the shot nicely.
The famous Spanish Steps. Hence the whole lot of people. 
My mom getting a caricature done by the many buskers who were touting the same trade. Not sure what happened to the piece in the end, but I think we all agreed it wasn't fantastic, haha. 
Piazza Navona. My whole family agrees that Isaac has changed the most, of all four of us. 
Not sure what the name of this building is... I do know that the Pope is supposed to live in there, though. It's within the Vatican City. Those low barriers were there for some event, I can't recall which. Labels: holidays, nostalgia, photography
posted by joseph at 12:57 PM