6. Photography speaks a universal
language that does not need
translation, and with an immediacy
that the written word lacks. It
freezes a moment in time, leaving
an indelible image.
It is also a window into the
photographer's soul.
7. Working as a national park ranger gave me lots of photo opportunities to hone skills
8.
9. Our first camera was a plastic “spy” camera that leaked light-1950
10. The evolution of my camera equipment – my 3nd camera – Argus Anastigmat - 1948
13. Part of the “museum” – cameras go back to 1890
14.
15. No Photoshop, WB 3200, 30 seconds, one headlamp, two flashlights
16. It does not matter
where you are when
you take photos; it
matters what you see
while you are there.
17. One of my favorite photos 1971...My father always worked hard all of his life and his hands
were always banged up. We had just brought home 2-day old Keith and he reached up and
grabbed his grandfather’s banged up thumb. Such a contrast. Shot with a Miranda camera.
18. Grandpa Elmer was there when Keith grasped his thumb at 2-days old.
Keith was there 40 years later as his 97 year old grandfather was passing…
19. 40 years and the role is reversed-great grandson
20. The doctor just told us that Mom has three weeks to live. After 72 years of marriage…
21. They have been together for 75 year, “Is this how it is going to end?” asked Mom, 91.
22. Dad never left Mom’s side for three weeks. I photographed them for three weeks.
23. The emotion felt when you see your dad peer into his wife’s casket w/grandson.
24. I do not own or use Photoshop to manipulate photos. I try to the let the composition
and subject stand on their own for impact. Photo: Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness
25. Ron, age 57, 20 felonies, 30 years in prison, Vietnam marine vet, heroin addict, COPD, mental.
Kelso, Washington
43. I am into preservation and then sharing around the world
“I am leaving an electronic legacy for the world”
I use Picasa: www.picasaweb.google.com/lsmithtwin (2330 albums, 1.4 million photos)
Scanned over 40,000 slides, many negs One of my first slide shots 1964-Helen
44. I have a collection of over 2,000 glass negatives from the 1890s. These have all been
scanned and the world can enjoy them on Picasa. 4x5 up to 11x14
45. A print off an 8x10 glass negative…so different from today.
46. Printed off a glass negative taken in 1928 – rather odd to be using glass in 1928
47. When my mother-in-law, Ruth Reed Boorman died we found boxes of slides,
negatives, documents and photos from 1890 on. I now have 10,000 scanned images
from her collection for the family. They are all preserved and shared.
48. Most of my electronic world is found on 4 Websites
1-https://www.rasmussen1889.info
2-https://www.smith-family.info
3-www.lloydslens.info
4-www.picasaweb.google/lsmithtwin
49. Get Organized!
I encourage you to organize your
photos so you can find them.
Get a system. Put them into
folders. This is the system I use
for almost 2,000,000 photos. My
computer has been upgraded to
16 terabytes, filled 4 terabytes.
50. I have a Picasa app on my I-phone that allows me to access all of
my 1.4 million photos in my 2300 albums. From the app I can show
the photo, send the photo or send the album link by e-mail or text.
51. This is an interesting story of the use of the photo app.
I walked into a funeral service last week and ……
53. Some samples of how I use photography
1-My son called me and asked if I had any photos
of my 18 year old granddaughter, Kaitlyn Smith. In
3 hours I had 1200 photos, 18 years of her life.
Probably a record for a grandpa. Had many more.
2-To honor my wife Helen Smith’s, 70th birthday I
put together an album of 3,500 photos. It took me
a year of sorting through 2,000,000 photos.
3-I have matched up objects in my folks’ photos to
objects we still have today…The Museum Project.
61. The Helen Project 1945-2016
Sorted through 2 million photos for 3,800 photos over 70 years
62. 1945 – The first photo of Helen. When Helen’s mother died we found thousands of
negatives in boxes in her apartment. They have all been scanned. 10,000 images
63. One of the houses that Helen was raised in. The snow blew through the cracks.
She remembers the outhouse well.
64. 1963 – Graduation photo
1963 – I started taking her photo,
been shooting Helen for 53 years
66. Helen Mae Smith’s albums cover 70 years, 3800 photos, a world record for a husband
67. The Helen Project
Album 1: Helen Mae Boorman Smith - Watching Helen Grow Up I (1945-1984)
https://picasaweb.google.com/114431897981658921755/HelenMaeBoormanSmithWatchingHelenGrowUpI19451984
Album 2: Helen Mae Boorman Smith - Watching Helen Grow up II (1985-2008)
https://picasaweb.google.com/114431897981658921755/HelenMaeBoormanSmithWatchingHelenGrowUpII19852008
Album 3: Helen Mae Boorman Smith - Watching Helen Grow Up III (2008-2015)
https://picasaweb.google.com/114431897981658921755/HelenMaeBoormanSmithWatchingHelenGrowUpIII2008Present
Album 4: Helen Mae Boorman Smith – Watching Helen Grow up IV (2015-Present)
https://picasaweb.google.com/114431897981658921755/HelenMaeBoormanSmithWatchingHelenGrowUpIV2015Present
68. 3-The Museum Project
Old photos with an object still owned in the photo
1951 – Dad sitting on his milking stool. I still have the stool.
69. 1935 – Helen’s mother in her prom , graduation and wedding dress.
70. 1959 – Lloyd sitting at his desk; note the chair and slide rule, age 19
71. 2015 – Lloyd’s grandson Bennett Smith, age 15, sitting at the same
desk with the same slide rule.
72. 2015 – The desk, the chair and the slide rule in the display
104. Midnight Mount Rainier National Park. Had 4 miles to hike out in the dark after the shoot.
Total: Walked 15 miles, up 24 hours, climbed 240 stairs. Nothing happens sleeping.
115. I have seen many PowerPoint presentations and nobody has ever offered the link to review
the program. I have posted on SlideShare and have the app on my phone.
http://www.slideshare.net/Lsmithtwin/art-of-photography-2c