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Greetings from your yearbook photographer in a bygone century.
We didn't hire a professional photographer for our 50th reunion. Big mistake.
Sure, no problem. You would pitch in and take a picture -- many friends and spouses did.
But would you shout the chatting children down and order them to face the camera?
We did what we could with what we had.
Classmates and friends got me 19 full-resolution,
original files, and I picked this one to start with:
Let's deal with darkness later.
The first problem is to create a "canvas" on which to work.
What luck! The photographer pointed the camera down on the
very next photo he took (below), so people would not have
had time to move much and thus slice themselves in half if I joined
the two photos.
Click any group photo to enlarge.
Joining the two photos and fixing the lighting gives the basic class
reunion photo:
Humm, what to do with the other photos?
We
assigned a name to every face -- if you don't like your name, pick
another one and tell us. We'll change it. We've been
doing that for 6 weeks now. After we used up all our names,
we still had over half-a-dozen ones left over. These were
Known Attendees apparently AWOL from the photo.
Margaret
Rodeffer Winesette spotted the first hold-outs behind some
pillars on the right. Carol Davis Cole said to look for
John Lieurance hanging out around the railings on the right. I
found him immediately, but he turned out to be John Grant. Look,
if I could recognize anyone, I wouldn't need to make this photo.
Clyde
Clark (above) ducked out of cover and was shot. Also photographed were
Michael Mote and Ron Kosciusko. John Grant walked by and was
immediately put behind bars (which had to be bent a little to fit).
Don Thornett, we always get our man -- send us a photo of
yourself, attn: Missing Persons Bureau.
Ginia Pinkerton Houston photographed our Elvis impersonator and I got him to join our group photo.
To exchange photos, we found the new (2010) service from
https://wetransfer.com/ much better than e-mail, which is slow and doesn't always accept large files -- not what e-mail was designed for.
Getting
anyone's original photos (not just low-resolution copies) out of Kodak
Gallery proved nearly impossible. Kodak takes your private
property and then makes you pay to get it back. The Web is loaded
with horror stories like this one:
Kodak
Gallery sucks because they deleted nine years worth of photos for me
including wedding and honeymoon. I had a hard drive crash and was
counting on that for back up and when I went to look at them, they were
deleted because I had not spent $4.99 in the last year.http://amplicate.com/hate/kodak-gallery
The leading paid "photo gallery" or "slide show" or "album" services (search on those terms for more) are
Why is no percentage given for Picasa's market share in revenues?
Because, kids, it is free. There are no revenues.
It is also the most advanced, has the most generous storage, and offers the most free software.
THE BRIAN OBERT PROBLEM
We have twin Michael sisters, why not triplet Brian Oberts?
At 15DDec2010 10:22 Wednesday, you wrote:
Why does it look like Brian obert is in the photo 3 thimes in the back.
--margaret
Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 20:24:51 -0500
To: "Margaret Winesett" <margaret r w nospaces @ verizon.net>
From: Jerry Nelson <jerry atsign nelsonic dotorg>
Margaret,
Like all the tall, handsome men, he went obediently to the very back.
Brian was in every photo, always hidden, always trying to crane his neck to be seen.
Who was more frustrated, he or I?
I had about 19 photos to work with.
6021, wait for it to load, blow it up, dark as night up there, lighten it, look for Brian.
6022, 6023, 6024 . . ..
Towards the end I found a profile, and pasted it in.
then a face, and I added that -- I'll remove the profile later, I thought.
6034, coffee's stone cold, no sense quitting now. 6038, 6039
Of course, wouldn't you know it, the clear shot emerges in the very last one, as the crowd turns and breaks up to leave.
Something snapped inside, I just lost it.
Three Brian Oberts and I'll never have to look for him again.
--jerry
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Date: Sat, 11 & 16 Dec 2010 04:40:50 -0800 (PST)
From: susan hall <grammy2boys she's at yahoo dot com >
Subject: looked at picture again!!
To: Jerry Nelson <jerry-VA at speakeasy dotnet>
Jerry,
Looked at picture again. More info.
Clyde
Clark is one of the guys on that rail to the right.
Margaret has a picture of him, if you can insert him somehow.
I'm pretty sure that the person you have listed as Linda Muehlenhort is really Lynn Mechling.
There are three men under the "BO" for Brian Obert. Who are the other two men??
Susan
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From: HCRATER Hap Crater is at aol dot com.
Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2010 22:07:07 EST
Subject: Re: MHS60 - Webpage for class
To: jerry-VA at speakeasy dotnet
Thanks Jerry,
Great Job!
Is it my imagination or did Brian Obert have a double (or maybe a triple) image !
Hap
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Yours in crime,
--jerry
Jerry Nelson '60
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