O'Bannon+Memorial+-+Alisa+Burch



I took pictures of the Governor Frank L. O'Bannon Memorial on the First State Capitol Grounds in Corydon, Indiana, using a borrowed Cannon Digital Rebel XT from our library. I have never used this camera. I have very little experience with digital photography. In my former life, 30 years ago, I was newspaper and yearbook photographer. I knew how to use my Nikon 35 mm, how to process film and develop photographs. Digital is new to me. I own a point and shot camera that still requires me to have film developed. Wednesday when I went to take these photos it was 94 degrees and miserable. The battery died and I had to figure out how to replace it. Luckily there was a charged extra in the camera case. After I took several photos CF kept flashing and I could not get the camera to take any more pictures. I guessed it meant the photo card was full so I had to wait until work the next day to find out if I could delete some of the old photographs on the card. I did delete them so I could continue to work on Fiesta 2. I took the camera to my son's cross country meet Thursday believing I would be able to do a photo story - the start, some action shots and the finish. Some how the camera got set to timer and I could take no pictures at all because no one knew how to turn it off. My son fixed that for me when we got home. So I finished shooting Saturday morning. The shots below are not edited. Some need to be brightened and cropped but if I understand the directions correctly that is for the next step - photo editing. I used Microsoft Photo or Picture Manager to resize these shots 300 x 400 pixels or 400 x 300 pixels. I do not know what 72 dpi means. I am frustrated because I have not figured out how to configure and move these images on the page to make a pleasing layout. Frank L. O'Bannon was from Corydon, Indiana, my hometown. He was a good family friend and a great man. This memorial was dedicated this summer, June 2008. To get really great photographs of the memorial it would be nice to have all cars and traffic removed from the adjoining streets. I find the cars in the background distracting.