Photo contest winner

And the winner is… Jim Onderko with his submission of a beach scene from a tropical location. The Chronicle judges Christina Jolliffe, Brad Dicken, and Steve Szucs narrowed down the entries and picked the beach scene and a photo by Pam Mcguire of a soccer player as the finalists. In the end the beach scene was chosen as the winner of the contest.
Our judge Christina said she chose the winner because of the beautiful colors captured in the photo and it looked like someplace warm she would like to be.
Thanks to everybody who entered the contest.

Photo contest update II

The pictures for our first photo contest have started coming in. I thought I would put up a sneak peek of the photographs entered so far. The deadline for entries is December 18th so send in your submissions. The limit is four pictures.

We have received entries from: Staci Crabeels, Rona Proudfoot, Henery Hawk, Julie Shoemaker, Jim Onderko, Theresa Prihoda, Tammy Bristol, and Pam McGuire

Photo Contest

Through the years working at The Chronicle, I have had the opportunity to photograph many different celebrities and some of the coolest events in modern Cleveland sports history. I’ve photographed every president from Jimmy Carter to George W. Bush.

But my favorite picture of all time was snapped on a rainy afternoon at a little fishing pond. It’s a shot of two of my boys proudly showing off the 4-inch bluegill that they just pulled out of the pond.

The best pictures aren’t always the most important events in history. Everybody has at least one picture that can be called a favorite. What’s yours? Is it a picture of the kids, or something from a park or the zoo? Send a picture to bbishop@chroniclet.com and I will post it here on the blog. The deadline for entries is Dec. 18th Just to make it interesting I’ll give a gift certificate for a free pizza to the best picture entered Sorry co-workers (employees of Lorain County Printing and Publishing), you guys aren’t allowed to play.

Inflation got you down? check this out

Scott Bakalar left a comment about his antiquated digital camera that uses floppy discs to store his images. He said it was time to ask for a new camera and he was right.
Here at The Chronicle, we have a few cameras that are on their way to the great camera graveyard in the sky.
When the paper transitioned from film to digital in 2000, we purchased four used cameras from another paper. The 2-megapixel cameras are Kodak dcs-620's and in their day they were state-of-the-art workhorses. These oversized beasts that weigh in at about six pounds had a hefty pricetag to match:
$15,000 was all it took to own one of these cameras.


How times have changed. Now they sit on a shelf in the photo department,
unused, unwanted and in the way. I looked at Ebay to see what the
cameras would sell for if we decided to get rid of them and the final
insult for these cameras was given. Of the 282,364 camera related items
for sale there isn't one single dcs-620.

Christmas cameras

The holiday season is here and I’ve been getting all kinds of questions from friends and family about digital cameras.

The question people ask me the most is “Which camera should I buy?”

I think most of the cameras are pretty similar these days so it comes down to brand preference. According to http://www.dpreview.com, a respected digital photography Web site, the top three searches for cameras are Canon, Nikon and Sony. If you purchase one of those cameras, you can count on a reliable well-made camera.

At the Chronicle, most of us shoot Canon, but a few photographers still cling to their Nikons. I have used both cameras over the years and recently switched to a high-end Canon. Personally, I think the new Canon is better than the top-of-the-line Nikon in just about every category.

The next question I get is “How many megapixels do I need?”

Buy the most megapixels you can afford. A camera with 6-10 megapixels is really the way to go. With that resolution, you can make photos as large as 16x20 with minimal loss of quality and your smaller photographs also benefit from the higher resolution.

“So, don’t buy a 4-megapixel camera?”

I don’t think so. If you are ever going to make a picture larger than 8x10, you should really have 6-10 megapixels.

The final bit of advice is to always buy the best camera you can afford. A $400 camera will always be better than a $100 camera. You are recording memories so don’t skimp on the camera.

Have you purchased a camera recently?

What do you think about the new camera?