Old+Mill

For this project, I went out and bought a Kodak EasyShare C643 digital camera. I have been wanting one for quite a while and this was the perfect excuse to purchase one! It comes with quite a few bells and whistles besides the standard 3X zoom and wide angle. There is the regular auto setting along with landscape, close-up, scene and video. I can remember the days when my father had a projector and screen to show home movies of me when I was a toddler so this technology is vastly different from my childhood! I had initially taken pictures of my daughter at her cross country meet only to find that I had great shots of the field but she had already run through and past my screen by the time I clicked the picture! (Luckily another mom got the shots!). I completed this project by taking shots of the Old Mill at Deep River County Park in Lake County, IN. Since the wheel was not moving, I felt I had a good chance of getting some nice pictures. I can appreciate a student's frustration when learning a new technology and just wanting to go back to the old ways of doing things. But I persevered, learned how to use the basic parts of the camera and had a great time shooting the pictures.

This is the first picture that I took of a non-moving object with my new camera. It was set on Auto wtihout any specialties.

This is a picture of my husband and daughter standing in front of the above mill but I used the wide angle button to add depth and to a point of reference using the height of 2 people.

This is a side view of the mill using the weeping willow as a frame along the top

This is a front shot of the mill embarced by trees and with individuals on the left side of the picture to show size. I used Macromedia Fireworks to size my pictures. This is a program that my children purchased.

Jean Chelich