Scanning Photos

…Hi, I'm Ben Long.…And this week on The Practicing…Photographer, I'm hiding from my relatives.…No, not really.…I'm here at this family gathering.…And I've started a process before I got here.…Which was to begin an archiving process that I…think is going to go on for a long time.…My parents have a bunch of pictures.…There are lots of other relatives with lots of pictures.…I know that I would like to have copies of them The pictures.…And I'm sure that we would all like to have copies of each…others pictures.…So I got here, and went out an bought a cheap scanner.…

I didn't bring it with me.…You can get scanners for under $50 now.…So I just went and got one and had it setup.…But before I came, I asked all the relatives I could…get a hold of to start bringing photo albums, prints, not slides.…That's a whole, other question.…So, I've got this big mess of, of prints here that I want to start scanning.…This is a great kind…of a long-term project to do around holidays.…Or any time you're going to have a bunch of relatives all in one place.…