Photog Class going well....

So whatchya think???

Don't comment on the sheer handsomeness of the subject, we all know he's gorgeous... 

I just need some constructive criticism applause on the actual quality of the photograph.

See I even call it a photograph now, it's just too fab to be a mere picture! 

OK, I'll stop now. 

If you have been thinking of taking a class and there is one in your area (check with your

local tech college) you really should do it. It is SO MUCH FUN!!!! 

I have learned something new every single week and it's starting to sink in and come together

so that I think I could probably take some half way decent pics. The aperture and shutter speed are still somewhat confusing but when you put them together by using a light meter... ping... the bulb 

goes off!!!!!  I can't justify the purchase

of a light meter right now (just got my tripod!!) but it's right at the top of my wish list.

I'm still pounding away at the picture a day project, it's kinda hard to fit in to my schedule and I 

feel I'm somewhat neglecting the blog but if I quit my job and sold the kids I could do it all! 

Now if only I could get my pictures imported from the damn card I could show you

a couple more from recent weeks... but the darn thing keeps giving me some kind of 

an error that's about to get on my last nerve!!! I really think it's something to do with 

me trying out that stupid free trial of Lightroom ... it's totally effed up my downloading

into Picasa... Grrrrrr. 

Well that's if from me today, hope this little snippet inspires those of you into amateur

photography to go take a class and get fancy!!! hee hee.

  

Photography is fun!!!

Tuesday nights are photography class night... OMG... it's so much fun I can't tell you!!! 

I love it. The guy who teaches it is a local portrait photographer and although I am sure that's 

not where my forte lies, as seen in the pictures below, I am learning from him and I love it!

This week he asked us to take models ... of course I took the girls!! Not that I actually wanted

to, I knew I was asking for trouble, but his gorgeousness was out of State.. not only out of 

town but out of the damn State!!!! 

So off we go to the studio, it's all rush, rush, rush, i get there and he's talking, talking, talking

then he starts metering the light... yes I know... metering the light... and tells us what to 

do with out f-stop and blah blah.. I can tell you're impressed. And it hits me ... 

dumb ass McGilly left the battery for her Nikon in the charger!!! Grrrrr!! 

Dingbat... that's me. So I ran home and got it.. y'all forget we live in a wee tiny 

place and nothing is more than five mins from my house. The class then proceeded and I 

took some of the worst pictures you've ever seen!!!! 

Here's Syd making faces behind teach's head!! 

I was taking pics and dying of shame all at the same time!!! 

He was a real sport, what she didn't know was that he could see her in a mirror

all the time.... funny stuff.

Here's Syd and Ash looking like a couple of stuffed dummies from the eighteen 

hundreds!!! I am quite sure this is not the type of picture i want to take.

And here is my necklace on my nightstand when I got home and into bed!!! 

I used what I had learned about this setting, that number, this light metering and that

depth of field and took this with nothing but the light of the lamp on my nightstand. 

and I like it!! Don't love it but I like it!!!!

Most of all I love that my teacher recognized the type of pictures I want to take and 

when I was leaving the studio he let me borrow one of his books on still life. 

It's incredible and I'm honored that he's already clicked with what I want to do and that

he's not trying to force me into the type of thing he does.. now that's a class act!!! 

Can't wait for next week... a field trip.. woo woo!!!!!