just got back from my cortizone spinal injections, everything went well. I wasn’t expecting two injections but the doctor hit both the spots that are messed up. Feeling is already coming back to my left leg, and I can feel more of my toes again. Going to go lie down, I’ll catch everyone later.
So the photo critique went well, my picture didn’t have any glaring compositional errors, and I agreed with the suggestions that the teacher made. I didn’t have anything that I’d taken in the last week that I felt was representative of my work, so I did end up using the shot from Washoe Lake I took back in May.
I did have a moment of clarity last night, I’ve read about f-stops, and experimented with them, and thought I understood exactly what they did.
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So I’ve got school tonight, and the first “photo critique” in the classroom. Really didn’t get any shots that I think are truly examples of my work, so I’m bringing in a couple of pictures I took back in May at Washoe Lake. I might take a print of the one I took the other day as well, since I think that’s the first time I actually used the Neutral Density filter to it’s full potential. I have to admit, I’m really looking forward to the low light and night sky class, since I’m fully expecting to pwn that session for obvious reasons.
In other news, I’ve been watching the backlog of podcasts on DTownTV that I missed. If you shoot Nikon, I highly recommend you check these guys out. It’s produced by Scott Kelby and is very educational.
Got up at 4:45am this morning, drive up Geiger Grade to the viewpoint, and took some pictures for the landscape photography class. Honestly, I wasn’t feeling it.. There weren’t and clouds and while the light was good, it was pretty boring. I took some pictures anyway, and playing with my graduated neutral density filter a bit. I only took a few pictures, and the best of them are up on flickr.
For the website, nothing else..
1. replace images at the top with my own, it’s just a stylistic thing
2. Get the shoutbox working again. I really liked that feature and it was kinda fun. And since this is my “personal” blog, I don’t have to worry about sounding all official and stuff.
3. Start writing more. I mean, I blog for CrunchGear now, I could at least talk about what’s going on with the boy and such. FYI, I also write for WristWatchReview.com, and that’s much more fun.
Had my first landscape photography class last night, it was interesting. Some of the stuff I already knew, but the teacher made several interesting points about stuff I didn’t know. Our first class “field trip” in on Saturday, and I’m planning on going. I’m going to try and get out early tomorrow morning and try out some of the new theory as well.
Seeing a professional photographers work and being able to discuss it with him is probably the best part of the class, I’m really enjoying that part of it. Anyway, three more sessions to go, every Thursday night from 7:00pm to 9:00pm.
He is a bit old school though. Doesn’t use digital. Prefers a Nikon FM2
had a “Well duh!” moment yesterday evening. Went to my bank to deposit some cash via the ATM. Now of course, I expected that it wouldn’t be available in my account for at least three business days (cause that’s how they roll) but to my surprise, the bank had replaced the old ATM with a new, envelopeless deposit ATM. What did this mean? Well, I shoved my stack o’ cash into the machine, it electronicly scanned and counted it, and then instantly credited my account (because it counted the cash itself). This is brilliant! And about time I might ad.
The reason the site was down and is currently messed up is I changed hosting, and didn’t get everything squared away as quickly as I should have (and I was warned!). Everything is fine and hopefully I’ll be able to restore the site to it’s former glory(?) soon.
As you can no doubt see, we’re back. The bad news is that not _everything_ is back yet. I have a backup of the database, but I’m not sure that it’s going to be possible to restore it. Hopefully, it will be, but for now please bear with me while I try to fix everything.