Welcome to drstultz.com

How these photo pages were created

Hardware

Photography has been a hobby of mine since 1995. That is when I purchased my first camera - a Samsung Maxima Zoom 105. It turned out to be a fantastic point and shoot 35mm camera. Compared to modern cameras, it is fairly bulky, but at the time it was a fine size.

Around 1998 I moved into the digital camera age, with a first generation $60 640x480 no-name camera. The pictures were awful, it had no LCD display, no flash, and ate batteries after about 15-20 pictures. But it was small and convenient.

In 2000 I upgraded to a $150 HP 1-2 megapixel camera. Picture quality was ok, but it ate through batteries as well.

Neither of these cameras produced very good pictures for prints. During this time I still used the Samsung camera for 'real' pictures.

In 2004 I received a Canon S400 as a gift, and that is when I truly started to enjoy digital photography. Great picture quality. Compact. Great battery life (?150+ pictures). 4 megapixels. I loved everything about this camera!

Around that time, I became interested in sharing photos on the web. In 2005 I purchased a Nikon LS-2000 film scanner to digitize my favorite negatives.

It scans at 2700dpi, which creates a 9-10 megapixel image. Very nice quality. Although I did try Vuescan software with it, I wound up preferring the included Nikon software for its overall ease of use.

In late 2007, my Canon S400 camera starting to malfunction - the LCD began showing a purple color, and some pictures even showed some bad colors. In 2008 I upgraded to the Canon SD950.

 

Compact, 12 megapixels, and optical image stabilization. (Notice the blur on the camera picture - it was taken with the older S400).

I have become interested in Geo-tagging - marking photos with location information. For this I have the QStarz BT-1000P travel recorder. About the size of a small pager, I can just turn it on, and it will log where I go. It has included software to match up location information with pictures I take.

 

Technique

I have only used point and shoot cameras, so there isn't too much to the technique of my photos. I did find a technique for shooting in museums, though. On the S400, I would go into the Manual mode, and select no flash, with an ISO 400. As long as I could hold the camera still, inside (museum) pictures tended to develop ok.

Software

The overall website was designed on Microsoft Frontpage, which is now discontinued. The photoalbums were created with JAlbum - very versatile, free, and highly recommended!