Black & White Photos of New York

I had stopped bringing my film camera to parties and such because of the amount of work involved in getting prints back to people. But with the return to digital, I was happy to shoot my father’s 84th birthday party yesterday. I was then able to quickly put together a slideshow (I didn’t use the slideshow mechanism in Lightroom because it wants to create a PDF file) but I made a collection, and used the Lightroom web gallery to make the slideshow / gallery and that is what you call quick turnaround. I mail the link out to everyone that attended and of course pictures (hard copies) will be called for - but in the digital world this is a piece of cake. And a pleasure it was to shoot the entire event with natural light, even though there wasn’t much, at f1.4 and either 800 or 1600. Piece of cake, so to speak. [A few notes about the 40D. I have yet to come close to running out of battery power, although I’ve gone out a few times day after day without recharging. I’ve also not come close to shooting a full 4 gb card in one day yet. That’s about 285 shots depending on the ASA. I’m guessing that I might shoot more than that if I were covering some political event, but for my everyday walkabout shooting, I don’t usually shoot more than the equivalent of 3 rolls in a day - 108 shots. I have highlight priority turned on all the time, and I haven’t had any highlight issues; and in short, the camera lives up to what I first thought about it, now a few months later.] p.s. So of course I hear back from dad about the gallery I made from the party - and what does he want to know - what’s involved in making a book from the event. And it just so happens that I know. So okay, on the one hand, I’m glad I took the pictures; this is historic in the family; but I’m going to have to do the book, which is the work that I was hoping to get out of.