Even if you are an experienced genealogist, you might be wondering how digital photography and genealogy go together.
Actually, digital photography is a blessing for genealogists—if you’ll only take the time to learn to use it to your advantage.
How can you do that?
Obviously, you can use your digital camera to photograph your family as they are today, preserving their images for future generations, just as your relatives did for the past few generations.
But you can also use your digital camera to photograph tombstones and cemeteries, unique historic documents, family heirlooms, one-of-a-kind paintings and vintage photographs, historic buildings and property, and many other items connected with genealogy.
Digital photographs of all these items can have a place in your scrapbook, in family history books, and on your web site because they can often provide unique information to those researching your family tree.
These images can also be shared with other family members by email, on CDs or DVDs, or printed photographs.
As image quality increases and camera prices decrease, high quality digital photography is within the reach of almost every genealogist today.
As a professional photographer who also has more than forty years of genealogy research experience and hundreds of hours photographing items to enhance my genealogy research, the weekly advice in this blog can help you take better digital photographs for your own genealogy projects.
Over the next few weeks I’ll be covering subjects such as how to more effectively photograph tombstones and cemeteries; old documents and vintage photographs; small three-dimensional objects, such as jewelry, military medals, silverware, etc.; quilts and other textiles; large two-dimensional objects, such as paintings and maps; large three-dimensional objects, such as furniture; and buildings and architectural features.
Can’t wait for the blog posts? Much of the same information I’ll be posting on the blog is contained in my book, The Genealogist’s Guide to Digital Photography, which can be purchased through my web site at http://www.dannaestridge.com/.
But please come back to my blog every week, because I’ll also be adding new information that I’ve discovered since I finished the book.
I’ll also be exploring other areas of genealogy research and sharing ideas on breaking through some of those brick walls we all run into from time to time.
It should be fun, so please join me.
See you next week!
Great content! I look forward to all your posts.
ReplyDeleteI read your book -- very detailed instructions. I highly recommend it!