> Last year I wrote a small program to assist with the registration of the hundreds of entries at the TVAA High School Art Show. The program greatly simplified not only the recording and organization of all the information related to the artwork, but also lended itself to the subsequent production of the programs and catalogs for the award ceremonies. This year I decided to take that same information and combine it with images of the artwork accepted for the show to produce a keepsake that can be enjoyed with what has become an almost common household appliance - the personal computer.

> I have been working with computers for over twenty years, and I have enjoyed photography since I had my first SLR camera back in the early '70s. The images on this CD represent my first attempt at using a digital camera, as I have always preferred the more traditional film-based (or analog) methods of photography in the past. As a photographer, I faced what can only be described as "less than optimal" lighting conditions when I photographed the art the weekend before the award ceremony. While many factors such as contrast, brightness and color saturation could be corrected digitally after the fact (forgive me Ansel Adams) I was still unable to completely avoid some unfortunate reflections caused by the clear acetate used to protect some of the art. My apologies to those whose art was affected by these reflections, as I tried my best to minimize them. I guess I'll need to look into obtaining a polarizing filter for a digital camera...

> All photographs were taken with a Sony Mavica digital camera with a resolution of 640x480 pixels. The image files were then downloaded to an old laptop I borrowed, then transferred via zipdisk to my computer at home (an overclocked Celeron for all you hardware types). The images were cropped (and tweaked when necessary) and thumbnails generated using JASC Paint Shop Pro 5.0.   All HTML files were written with Allaire's Cold Fusion 4.0 (definitely overkill for this application, but it runs circles around HotDog and my old favorite html editor, Notepad). The images and files were then burned onto 650 MB CD-RW discs using an HP 8100 CD Read-Write drive. CD labels and jewel case inserts were made and applied with a little device called a CD Stomper. Since there was plenty of room left on the disc I have included the raw images as they were before any cropping or editing. The finished CD has been tested on both an iMac running System 8 with Explorer and Navigator, and on PCs running Windows 95, 98, NT and 2000 again with both Explorer and Navigator. All pages are best viewed at a resolution (screen setting) of 800 x 600 pixels with your browser set to full-screen. If you try running at a lower resolution or if your browser window is not maximized (i.e. full-screen) you will end up having to scroll the page back and forth and up and down to see everything. If you run a higher resolution the page will be off center, but you can run your browser at less than full-screen to make it look nice if you want. Someday I'll break down and learn all about cascading style sheets and this won't be a problem any more. (yeah right!) If you do experience any problems with your CD please let me know. This of course assumes you can even read this file... :)

I hope you enjoy your CD of the TVAA 2000 High School Art Show. Maybe I'll be crazy enough to do this again next year. If you're crazy enough to want something similar for your school, your portfolio, or anything else you can think of let me know and we'll see what we can do together. Contact me at (214) 942-5199 or email me at: gregd@habu2.net

Greg Fieser