Ok a package came in the mail on Friday and I didn’t have a clue what it was so I opened it, when I saw what was inside I couldn’t help but take it out and play with one of them for a bit… Don’t tell Santa but I am going to be one happy girl come Christmas morning!
(the soft box, not the speed light flash, I already had that)
Ok I have a serious question for you gals… Does it drive you crazy when you have spent HOURS making something look right in a picture on your computer and THEN when you print the picture it doesn’t look anything like it did on your computer? OR even you look at the picture you spent hours working on, on someone else’s computer and it looks horrible on the other computer? Drive me crazy?!
Go to that ‘site’ it is on facebook, does that picture look yellow to you on your computer or is it just me? I am sure that person spent time and energy making that picture look fabulous on their own computer, yet on mine it looks like crap! So would you PLEASE let me know when you see a flaw on one of my pictures, chances are I can’t see it on my own computer!
Ok now that my rant is over!!! How are you guys doing with your picture needs/wants/abilities? I am asking Santa for a better lighting system for Christmas, but I don’t know which one to get any ideas? It can’t be too expensive, Santa is a stinge when he is in Dental School :-)
Also, go check out my site I just put up a new family session, aren’t they cute? The middle child didn’t want to be there, but I don’t think most boys like getting their picture taken… truth be known I don’t much like getting my picture taken, I just like memories and my mind on its own doesn’t remember like a camera does.
I hope you guys are doing wonderfully… we need to have another assignment or something we can work on in our different parts of the world to bring us together a bit more… I am working on a few photography props for the new baby, if they EVER get done I will post some pictures of them!
Loves
K
Hey Pretty Ladies! How are you girls doing? I have been a slacker when it comes to this blog! Raspberries went on sale a week ago at one of the grocery stores I shop at so ofcourse I had to stock up! They were so cute I had to get a few close ups!
Loves!
… ok maybe it wasn’t totally dark, nor a very stormy night but I still felt like I was in a horror movie! Two days ago, while trying to back up my computer onto my hard drive I did something wrong and LOST everything on my hard drive. I started freaking out, and Todd (my computer guru) wasn’t going to be home for six hours! I was pacing, I couldn’t breath, and every once and a while I would scream, Todd was in exams all day so I couldn’t even ‘chat’ with him on gchat. It had years of my journals, and over a year and a half of pictures and six months of pictures that I hadn’t ‘gotten around’ to backing up onto CD’s yet, I thought I was going to die. Poor C didn’t know what to think. When my Todd got home and took a look at it, turned out I hadn’t even hooked up the hard drive, I had tried to down load my computer to my computer and there wasn’t enough space for it, lol! Needless to say I stole away to the back room and thanked my Heavenly Father with huge sobs.
On to happier things Congrats to Deana and Anna who survived another year of educating young minds, now you can pick up your cameras and shoot everything in sight!
The next assignment I wanted to do was a picture of Spring. It can be anything. I have always loved spring, the snow is finally gone (hopefully) and there are signs of new life everywhere. Out on the farm, there were hundreds of baby calves kicking and playing with each other… almost makes me miss the farm… almost :-)
I don’t know if I already posted this but here is a picture I would have lost and I really like it.
PS Jane for us that live in Vegas and Summer is all but here, take a picture of something that can be either Spring or Summer
With the desert being in spring bloom, it was nice to see a few flowers with some of my favorite colors!
Ok I actually have THREE new assignments, but the first two are for your benefit. If you want you can post them, but you don’t have to. The third I totally want posted.
The first assignment has to do with aperture. If you have already done this before than do worry about it. Put your camera in manual mode and set the shutter speed to any speed you want, I suggest around 1/60 or 1/80 but it doesn’t really matter. Then set up a few items at different distances from you… I used M&Ms and I sat them along the counter going away from me when I did it. Then start at your lowest aperture setting and take a picture at each aperture, then compare your pictures and what is in focus when.
The second assignment is just the opposite. Put your camera in manual mode again (I suggest doing this one outside). Set one aperture size, I suggest around 7 to 14, and then start at the highest shutter speed and take a picture at each speed until you get to one second.
The third assignment (the one I want posted), is to take a pictures of colors… either your favorite color, or just a color that caught your eye, it can be abstract or not. Whatever you would like really. Try if you can to fill as much of the frame as possible with the color.
And that’s about it! Thanks girls!
PS I am going to Canada for a couple of weeks and my parents don’t have internet… seriously they are nearly hobbit people… so I might not be able to post until I get back, but I will see what I can do!
Loves
~K~
