{"id":1249,"date":"2009-05-28T14:23:42","date_gmt":"2009-05-28T19:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/?p=1249"},"modified":"2009-05-28T14:41:49","modified_gmt":"2009-05-28T19:41:49","slug":"telling-photo-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cottagearts.net\/blog\/telling-photo-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Telling Photo Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Thursday, everyone. Last day of school here for the kids&#8230;summer begins tomorrow!ngg_shortcode_0_placeholder<span style=\"font-size: x-small;\">Making Sausage by Michelle Shefveland. Supplies: <a href=\"http:\/\/cottagearts-net.stores.yahoo.net\/whatsnew.html\">Garage Grunge Pak, Simply Done 2.5, Nature&#8217;s Sketchbook Papers 4 (cardboard alpha), Nature&#8217;s Sketchbook Elements 2 (vintage alpha), Magical Moments Pak (arrow), Nature&#8217;s Sketchbook Journals 5, Garden Dahlia (tape) <\/a> Fonts: typical writer, jane austen<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yesterday Alyssa and I had the opportunity to be a part of a big work day at Mom and Dad&#8217;s&#8230;one in which we had never participated in before: the making of sausage. Not the cooking and eating of it, but the making of it from raw meat! And, not just a little&#8230;90 pounds of it! My brothers and dad are avid hunters, and now have added Mom to the mix&#8230;.I&#8217;m the only one never to have touched a gun before. So, the least we could do was help with the end process! Since it is not something we will probably be able to assist in a great deal, it was important for our family memories to document the whole process. So, why not in a photo story?<\/p>\n<p><strong>What&#8217;s a Photo Story?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Taking photos of the process of a family tradition or event or something with a beginning and end, and then getting it into one piece of work is what I would call a photo story.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tools<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Templates are great tools to help share lots of photos on one page. I actually took one of our <a href=\"http:\/\/cottagearts-net.stores.yahoo.net\/sido25tetrvi.html\">Simply Done Template sets (2 or 2.5<\/a>) and modified the shape and number of frames, but you could make your own with our<a href=\"http:\/\/search.store.yahoo.net\/cgi-bin\/nsearch?catalog=cottagearts-net&amp;query=scrap.frames&amp;searchsubmit=Go&amp;vwcatalog=cottagearts-net&amp;.autodone=http:\/\/cottagearts-net.stores.yahoo.net\/sido25tetrvi.html\"> Scrap.Frames<\/a>, as well.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tips<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Work on it as soon as possible, while the story is still fresh and you are inspired from the activity. <\/li>\n<li>Don&#8217;t worry about the photos being perfect technically. I had my hands dirty much of the time, so had to work quickly to grab shots of the process after multiple clean-ups. Depending on the time I had available, I used my Canon 40D, my cell phone camera, or my point-and-shoot.<\/li>\n<li>Since there will likely be a lot of images, keep the frames simple and uniform in design styles.<\/li>\n<li>E-mail a printable copy to members of your family, so they can all enjoy the story.<\/li>\n<li> For added detail, take a bit of video. I captured Dad sharing the process and some stories about the tools we used (with my Lumix point-and-shoot) and we have it saved in our video folder on my system for safe keeping. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Enjoy telling your stories&#8230;they are important to you and your family! Michelle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Thursday, everyone. Last day of school here for the kids&#8230;summer begins tomorrow!Making Sausage by Michelle Shefveland. 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