Can I get personal with you?
The Bender Photography blog is generally about studio photography, portraiture, senior pictures and other stuff that we do at our studio in Stroudsburg. You can read about what is happening here in the blog.
But there’s a personal side to my photography, too. And it happens on a daily basis. For the past six months or so I’ve been posting my personal photos in the albums of my Facebook profile. I’ve posted a couple of the better ones here for you to take a peek at. You can look at all of them by following this link:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=178587&id=514423161&l=0d52d4c352
The albums are called “Photo Diem”, which is my term for “A picture a day”. It has been a great little challenge and is very rewarding. As you might imagine, it is difficult to find something new to photograph within the daily grind of life. But it forces me to look at things differently and to slow down a little.
Photo Diem has also found a nice little following of folks
Taken in the dead of night, this experimental photo is a photo diem favorite.
Taken while attending a photo conference in Las Vegas
This felt like the polar express and was created while visiting family in Minnesota
who look for the images every day. They comment and hit the “like” button for their favorites. That’s pretty nice! And it keeps me going! Yay!
I encourage anyone who is interested in photography to take a picture a day. You don’t have to show them to the world, but you will find that after a while you will be looking at things differently. And that can be a good thing!
We’re twits
In the never ending quest to have an internet voice, we’ve added Twitter to our frequently visited list of web locales. You can follow us at http://twitter.com/BenderPhoto
Currently, we blog here, put personal photos on Facebook, Put business photos on our Facebook “page” and now tweet on Twitter. Yay!
Retrieve your heritage with photo restoration
This was the resulting image from the negative that our client brought to us
Recently one of our Facebook fans brought us a couple of glass plate negatives to work with. in the old days of photography, actually the days before film, negatives were made of glass. At Bender Photography we don’t do a lot of photo restoration, but I was intrigued with the idea of working with such old images.
At first, we weren’t sure if we could even work with them. They needed to be scanned and entered into our imaging system. But we found that with a little work, we could get a good scan and have a file to work with. The negatives were of decent quality, considering their age. But like much of the stuff from that era there were things that we could fix using photoshop.
We had our experienced photo retouchers work their magic on the two images and we were pleased with the results! It turns out that the images were created in the 1920’s!
Photography, snapshots and family portraits are such an important part of life. For most families, it is their only recorded family history. It was fun working with those old negatives.
Contact Bender Photography for your photography needs. Chances are, we can help you to do what you want to do.
Be sure to “fan” Bender Photography on Facebook at
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stroudsburg-PA/Bender-Photography/61162176001
We look forward to seeing you!