Dr. Girlfriend and I spent the weekend in the south for a wedding. Amazingly I crossed the Mason-Dixon line, I know, it’s crazy. The first couple days were spent in the glorious town of Benson, North Carolina where the wedding was. The wedding itself was quite nice, but the town and our lodgings, well, it [...]
Dad: Why don't you take some pictures of all the buildings?
Little boy with camera: I already took pictures of those buildings. (aims camera towards New Jersey) I'll take pictures of this spot now!
Mom (disgustedly): No honey, that's New Jersey. Nobody cares about New Jersey.
–Staten Island Ferryvia Overheard in New York, Aug 10, 2008
From my last SVA class.
I don’t own a car and therefore don’t get to drive often. But when I do I drive million miles an hour, like a spaceship. Kidding mom, just kidding. In reality the car* I was in doesn’t do much more than 55 so I wasn’t going that fast. Pretty happy with the results though.
*The car [...]
To meter or not to meter.
I’ve been reading photo blogs religously for the last couple of years, and the one over-arching theme amongst the digital professionals has been: when shooting digital, use the LCD as your meter rather than using an actual light meter. Nearly all of the pro-photo bloggers that I read don’t use [...]
Boy, do I need to work on my posing skillz. I was tossed into a studio with three lovely models last Thursday without any thought or prep and kind of panicked. “Yeah, um, well, oh wait, don’t move that looks great….beautiful…”
Sigh. After a while I got comfortable and was able to give some coherent instructions, [...]
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