DIGITAL PHOTO FRAME IMPORTERS

circa 1990. memories: cigarette lighter behind 78RPM record album is from Mary - a true love; 78 RPM records are from my mother's collection - mostly opera as I recall; mother's Remington Typewriter, photo album depicting father, old photo from mother's high school athletic team, father's 1940's military pic, picture on left in album is sister's birthday party with father holding me, mother on right, sister at table front and friends, mom's mom to my father's left; coins from Greece from my 1988 trip; National Geographic Magazine collection; 1890's Encyclopedia Brittanica volumes found in my teenage years home back in the1960s in Totowa; magnifier I used to look at negs and slides; my tobacco pipes; tapestry bought several years before and brings back memories of 4 footed friends in years gone by; ; my writing desk; and a Valentine's Day card between my parents from the 1940's. The piece of film that recorded all this is also a memory of the highpoint in my photography avocation - 8x10 inch camera studio photography with professional level flash equipment and other photo tools. Made on Kodak Ektachrome 8x10 inch field camera with studio flash in Chimera light boxes exposure unrecorded although I am sure I used a digital flash spot meter to set aperture and shutter speed on the large format lens and also adjusted for long bellows extension for this slight closeup shot. . Cropped section of color reversal film scanned at 3200dpi (7.4 x 9.6 inch) Epson v750. Photoshop used to sharpen, adjust hue and trim digital image before downsizing for web.

I know these pictures are very late, this was an Autumn Craft Class Project!

I made two of these for Christmas presents, one for each of my parents. They are filled with photos from a shoot my sister and I did specifically for giving to our parents, as they have been asking for updated portraits of us for quite a while. The albums each had ten 4x6 photos, and then they each chose one that we got printed 8x10 for them.

Photographs by Brendan Barlow of Brief Candle Photography, styling by myself!

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