Re: Photographing irises

In a message dated 96-09-29 13:51:14 EDT, you write:

<< I recently received an advertisement with two rolls of film, one each ASA
 200 and 400, from the Seattle Film Works, P.O. Box 34056, Seattle
 98124-1056.  This is one of those mail order photo services which charges
 about the same as the corner drug store for processing but gives you a new
 roll of film free.  What interested me about their service was that for
 something like $3.95 a roll they will put your photos on a compact disk so
 that you can view them on your computer.  The next logical step, of course,
 if you have a color printer, is to print them on letter-size paper.  For
 those who keep photo albums of their iris blossoms, this would be less work
 than mounting photo prints and cheaper than making photo enlargements.
 Disadvantage, of course...where you normally get four or six prints on a
 page, this way you would get only one.  Offset, however, is that the pages
 would be thinner and would not require plastic jackets.
  >>
     I have used this and with great luck.  I have heard some bad reports,
that the negative quality is not as good, that the color is not as good, etc.
but have not seev any proof to date.  As far as printing them you can bring
the photos into a spreadsheet (such as Excel) or into a word processing
program (MS Word) and set the size to fit 1, 2, 4, 10, 20 on a page.  You can
size each picture and set it up the way that you want.  
     Another advantage is they can be converted into .pcx format and used as
clip art or several other things.  I have had a lot of fun with it and plan
to do all of next years this way.  Also, I am pretty sure the SFW film can
give you slides and photos from the same roll, and the film on a disk.
     I use the pictures of my iris at our Iris Societies iris sale.  When a
buyer can see a picture it seems to help sell the iris.  My goal (a long way
off) is to have ad quality pictures of every iris on the place.  Gives me a
long term goal to work toward.

Dana Brown Lubbock, TX  Zone 7
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