Then we sat out back and drank coffee and looked up some things on eBay (laptops rule!) that we need to ship. We packaged them up and I am going to take them over to ship in a little while. Mike went to work and I'm playing with pictures I took yesterday. You can see the result of that BELOW. I'm going to sit outside and read my Worldchanging book that I'm in love with. And then I'm going to go to the post office, FedEx, and the bank - to open my first account in Cali. Exciting. Or necessary evil. Probably a bit of both.
But anyway, hope you are all having a most excellent day and I will continue to do so as well.
Oh yeah, and also, I typed up my resumé and updated it yesterday (I only had hard copies of it) and am going to apply at both airports, a very small commercial one in Arcata and a general aviation one in Eureka. Because my most favorite job OF ALL TIME was when I worked at Wisconsin Aviation. It was the most fun, the most challenging, the most interactive, the most edge-of-your-seat excitement, and I have all the mad skills any airport employer would want: ticketing agent, I know airplanes, I'm charming, charismatic me, I mean what more could you want!? Sooo excited, wish me luck, y'all! This would be my most instantly gratifying dream job in Humboldt County.
And now, the pictures - I was playing with settings to learn how to take pictures a bit. Plus Mike liked it when I was playing photojournalist at his work. He felt all famous and what-not. (Hot Tip: Keep scrolling and you will find some of that plant life I promised!)
Mike at Work:
Mike making rose petals:
Flower Pendant in progress:
Mike's rented studio space:
Tin of Cool Scrap Glass:
Arcata Marsh:
Changed to Portrait Setting By Accident (I like it):
Dead tree outside glass shop:
Arcata Square:
Every day in every way I am getting better and better.
4 comments:
You didn't ask for feedback on the photos so feel free to ignore this.
I love the last one of the tiny blue-purple flowers. The first one was too flashy and the second was out of focus (looked like the Macro setting was either off or set to the wrong distance). The last one was really crisp and had a lot of depth!
I love the scenic shots on the lake! That shot had great framing and depth. The first one looks like a painting!
The dead tree picture is amazing. I love it.
The first shot of the pink flowers is really flat-- there's no depth there so it isn't interesting to look at. But I LOVE the second and third one. It's interesting that in the second photo the foreground is out of focus and the background is in focus. That's really cool. The third photo is the opposite and it's really beautiful.
The other flowers look really flashy for some reason-- did you have the flash on? It doesn't seem like you could have because the photo wouldn't have come out at all... unless maybe you had the aperture set super high so that the shutter wasn't open very long? I'm not totally sure how that works. On my camera, you can adjust the intensity of the flash so that might help-- you and I have almost the same camera so you might be able to do that on yours, too.
But maybe you intended for them to look that way because the funny thing about those flower photos is that I kind of love them. I mean, they are really flashy but it ends up making them look scary flower alien monsters which is super cool. Those photos are actually kind of disturbing even though they are of something really beautiful. That's awesome.
Ms. Stark, your expertise is always appreciated. Thank you for the compliments and thank you for the constructive criticism! The thing is I wasn't paying close enough attention to what settings worked and what didn't, which of course means I will have to go out and do more "research." Today, preferably. It's very important. I'm not sure the setting on the last flowers but when I took those and the palm trees it was getting pretty dark outside. I don't think I had the flash on but now I can't be sure. I will have to practice and hopefully eventually make perfect.
yeah, i'm starting to get an idea of what the settings do but it's still mostly trial and error for me, mixed with a lot of luck. there are lots of websites online (or books in the library) that talk about aperture and things like that so that you know what you're adjusting and why you're adjusting it.
I actually took a photography class my senior year in high school where I learned all of that stuff plus developed my own pictures in a dark room - it was one of my favorite things and I used my dad's old Canon manual camera and I even had one of my pictures entered by my photography teacher at a local exhibit in Mount Horeb. I was so proud!!! (Not everyone in the class had stuff she submitted so I was a little special!)
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