Life
Tell Us Your Tools Along With Your Problems
I’ve been reading a lot of stuff over at Digital Photography School lately where someone is asking for advice on how o make their shots better, but they’re not telling us what camera they were using. Why?
You wouldn’t ask someone how to set a different footer on each page without telling them what word processor you’re using, would you? And I don’t think you would ask someone how to change the radio in your car without telling them what kind of car you have.
I wonder what kind of advice they expect to get when they don’t let us know the tools that aren’t doing the job as expected.
One More Week of Hell
Tomorrow starts my own personal Hell Week. I’ve got soccer, soccer, volleyball, soccer, and volleyball all between today and Tuesday when the final version of The Johnsonian is finished.
On top of that, there’s 1 (and hopefully 2) basketball practices that I need to go to so I can get pictures for the basketball preview.
This should be fun.
DPS Scavenger Hunt #1
Digital Photography School is having a scavenger hunt, and it’s something that looks pretty interesting. Here is the official list
The List:
01 - Stained Glass
02 - Something Pink
03 - A Crowd
04 - Bell Tower
05 - Something Patriotic
06 - Couple Holding Hands
07 - A Quote
08 - Candid Portrait
09 - Something Blue
10 - Tombstone
11 - Dust Bunnies
12 - Eyes Only
13 - Big Truck
14 - Camera SP (Self Portrait)
15 - Water
16 - _____ on a wire
17 - Fire
18 - Church
19 - Cake
20 - Bridge
21 - Something Moving
22 - Jewelry
23 - Unusual Door
24 - Interesting Sign
25 - Toy(s)
Look for what I get for each item over at Sapid Existence.
Dorkness Shinning Through
I know, everyone should be happy when class is canceled. I know I was ecstatic when school would be canceled when I was little. And my freshman year I loved it when class was canceled. But now, I just feel like I’m missing out on something.
Although part of that might be because I got the email that my 9:30 class was canceled after I got out of the shower and had started making the coffee. I could have just stayed asleep. But that can’t happen now because I’m already awake.
So, nothing to do until my yoga class at 12. Maybe my new lens will be here and I can play around with that.
By the way, just in case you were curious this is how I sleep. Not the naked part, the part where I’ve got my head on one of my arms with a hand stretched out like that.
Double Duty Results
I hate night games. I get a few good shots, a lot of crap. Well, mostly crap. But that’s the way it goes when there are areas of the field that essentially get no light. It’s too bad that those areas are pretty important spots of the field.
I love day games. I get to drop the ISO and don’t have to worry about lights and shadows and all of the other things that make shooting night games so much not fun.
Double Duty
Because of a rainout yesterday, I get my first marathon day photo wise. Men’s soccer game at 3:30 followed by a women’s game at 7. I’m excited, I haven’t had a chance to just stay out there for that long yet. All that soccer should be great.
To celebrate, here is a shot I’ve gotten from the men’s a women’s teams this year.
On that note, I really need to start getting some of this year’s shots up on Sapid Existence.
Oh, the Wonderful Pictures
I’ve gotten a lot of pictures so far this year, and I probably should be doing a better job telling people where they are. The really good ones will probably find their way over to Sapid Existence at some point.
Men’s Soccer
Women’s Soccer
Cross Country
Intramural Sports
If you know people on one of these teams, make sure they know where to find pictures of themself.
Project Cold Coffee
Pam needs to do a comic book for one of her classes. I started thinking randomly (and without knowing that) that it would be cool if there was a really insecure super hero who was really messed up psychologically, mostly with anxiety disorders.
Combine the two, and I think there might be something cool going down.
So if you have any ideas for this comic book, please let me know. I’d love to hear them. I have some stuff planned out already, but I’m keeping it upnder wraps for right now.
The Writings on the Wall
I’m a dork. A forgetful, live in the moment, swiss cheese brained dork. And there’s no way around that at all.
Which is why I’ve decided that having a poster up on my wall with a list of things that need to get done on a semi-regular basis might be a good idea. I’ve had success with putting signs on the wall before (”Don’t forget your keys, dumbass” was the best one in both working-ness and cool-ness), so I’m 99% sure that it’ll work.
The problem is figuring out what to put on the poster. Some things like “Go to class” are so common that I don’t think they should take up space. “Make your Winthrop payment” are important, but it doesn’t happen often enough to where I think it needs to be there.
Finding that balance is hard. I’d love to have some ideas for what should go on there. The only thing I know will be there now is “Update GnuCash” because there’s no point in having it if I don’t use it.
Sapid Existence at Successful Blog
I’ve submitted Sapid Existence to Liz Strauss’ Blog-to Show. That was the easy part. The hard part is waiting another few hours to see what comes out of that. I guess my expecting to see it when I woke up is another example to egocentric thinking.
I’m hoping that things go well with that. I’ve gotten some some responses that have made me very happy, most recently this one from SuRi:
I wonder if you are planning a future in professinal sports photography. I know you have been published in your school newspaper from previous posts, but your sports photos are good enough to be in sports magazines (not that I look at many of those, but my husband does and your shots are right up there with sports illustrated)
Every time I hear that, I start to wonder if it’s something I should persue more activly. So if anyone knows where I can tart to do that in a place other than with newspapers I would love to hear about it. I just don’t want newspapers because I like to have a few days to go over my stuff and get it ready.