Our friends the Rodriguez family invited us to a Civil War Reenactment this past weekend, and asked me to try out my new camera at the event. So Jonathan, Abigail and I went on Sunday and were able to relive some American history at Prado Regional Park in Chino, Ca. The battle photos were from the Sunday 2pm reenactment of the Battle of Gettysburg. This featured mounted calvary, infantry and full scale artillery demonstrations. Our friend Huatzin was fighting for the North, for 1USSS Company C, Berdan Sharp Shooters. (You’ll notice them in green).

So are you ready to view 571 pictures? I thought so! All three of us went equipped with cameras to this event, and we went nuts with the cameras the whole time we were there (a few hours)… There were so many photos to weed through and edit that it forced me to come up with an easier way to mass edit photos. I explored a few different applications and found that for my purposes, Picasa was best suited for handling this many photos. I had tried it before but hadn’t given it a fair chance, and while there are some things I don’t like about it and things that could be better, it is one great piece of freeware, and I am sure it’s going to get better as they continue to develop it.

If you whoever you are happen to see photos that you want to print, just contact me with the pictures you want, and I’ll send you full resolution copies.

If you’re detail oriented you’ll notice that many of my photos (in the Todd albums) are over-exposed. I was using a (borrowed) zoom lens for the first time and am just learning how to use it. (I also get to take this zoom with me to China when we go end of month!). I was spending a lot of time in “auto picture” mode to play it safe because I often ruin or miss shots by messing with settings too much in manual mode. All the over exposed shots happened in Auto mode so my guess is I just wasn’t paying enough attention to the camera and relying on its auto ability too much. I went ahead and kept a lot of these shots anyway and just tried to do effects with them, like black and white, or sepia, or film grain (just using Picasa)…

Here are links to the individual sub-albums:

Abigail’s camp photos 51 photos, using a Canon A510 3mp	Abigail’s battle photos 19 photos, using a Canon A510 3mp
Jonathan’s camp photos 83 photos, using a Nikon Coolpix 5mp	Jonathan’s battle photos 82 photos, using a Nikon Coolpix 5mp
Todd’s camp photos 60 photos, using a Pentax K100D 6mp (mostly using a Tamron 70-300mm AF zoom lens that a friend loaned me.)	Todd’s battle photos 270 photos, using a Pentax K100D 6mp (using a Tamron 70-300mm AF zoom lens that a friend loaned me.)
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Or click here go to the top level album of these sub-albums and be your own viewing boss.