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GIVE YOUR BEST SHOT
It’s hard to shoot great photos or footage, then wait until after the new year to see the results — especially when it’s possible for everyone to enjoy the fruits of your labors right away.
For the fastest results, use an instant camera, or hustle undeveloped film to a onehour processor. Have a photo finisher transform your pictures into holiday cards, enlargements for framing, posters, calendars, key chains, mock-magazine covers, sports cards, tree ornaments or jewelry, or compile them into a holiday album for all to see.
Some processors can transfer photographs onto T-shirts and sweat shirts, or will scan standard 35mm photos onto compact discs that can be viewed on television via a photo CD player.
With a camcorder, meanwhile, consider shooting a holiday video greeting card and distributing copies to far-flung friends and loved ones. Record everything from shopping excursions to trimming the tree and Christmas morning, remembering to keep each segment short and interesting. Other families might record the lighting of the menorah, Mom in the kitchen whipping up potato pancakes or the kids playing with a dreidel.
And to boost your own skills as well as the budding photographers on your gift list, why not give — and receive — gifts of photography?
The long list of snappy possibilities includes beginner camera kits for kids, computer software that teaches the basics of photography, fancy frames to buy or make, subscriptions to photography magazines, books on the subject, and accessories such as lenses and filters.
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