Part II

Shooting while drugged was interesting. I think 12 of the 30 shots I took came out in focused. Ha! Just out of time to wait for feeling up to par. This will have to do. It's not so nice as I had hoped, but I think it works.

Fish appropriated (reused from first), glass texture appropriated. Fan scanned. Everything else shot with my moderately patient eight year old. Turned down the saturation and the selected things to bring out. Seventeen pictures in this one, eighteen if you count the one I duplicated.

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Tweaked it more. I was tempted to edit out all of the clipping, but I like what it does where I left it.

Generally speaking, I find the behavior of my fellow classmates to be appalling.

How difficult is it to pay attention when someone is giving a presentation?

FFS, people. I was so disgusted that I left.

Then I saw where someone had recreated a Banksy painting on the trunk of his car. It was a joy to be reminded of the things that matter.

Don't know Banksy? Go look.

Here is an interesting article on the future of photography.

The game is changing so fast that nobody can see the moves before they're three moves behind.

It's all good, though. No matter what happens, I'll be there framing the world.

And, a photograph!

50mm . 400ISO . 1/400 @f1.8
It was nice and soft, but there was a patch too focused.
I softened that up in Photoshop. Otherwise it's as-is from the card.

Nothing quite like a mad scramble to get your final project done. My last batch of antibiotics worked for a few days, but mid-shoot on Weds after class I found myself flush with fever again. I spent until Friday in bed, then went off to try something new. A longer round of medication. Wee.

However! Today I was feeling well enough to shoot, and I did spend my time in bed at least planning. I've gotten the first part of my project done. It's not quite how I pictured it in my head, but there's always something lost in the translation for me.



There are 19 separate images in this composite. Three are scans (per the assignment), and one is appropriated from someone good enough to list it under creative commons (also per the assignment). I spent a little over an hour on the fish selection, which is ironic given the fact that it is small, and that the tail - the most troublesome part- has been cut off by the windowsill. I'm not too happy with the bottom left, so I suspect I will reshoot it over the weekend. Overall, though, I'm very pleased with how it came out. I can't wait to start on the second part.

I have been incredibly, dreadfully ill. I do not know what is going on, but it needs to stop.

That lingering illness took a drastic turn for the worst, and after three days of barely controlled fever, shaking, and coughs, I gave up and went to the doctor. Turns out I had pneumonia and an ear infection. Yay!

I had to drop my art history class. I missed my midterm and way too much lecture to hope to ever catch up. Luckily I can make up a great deal of my photography coursework from home.

Alas, I missed Halloween. It's my favorite holiday, but more than that there are so many funky photographs that need to be taken on Halloween! I took a few between coughing fits, braving the cold and the wet against the rocks in my chest.

I was too weak to set up my tripod, and couldn't hold my camera straight. I gave up after the first few attempts. This one doesn't look too bad so long as it's small...



At one point when I went to answer the door to the kids coming around, I discovered that the snails had come out in the dark and the rain. They really, really like squash. They were gorging themselves on the jack-o-lanterns. This one had the least of it, but the larger ones had snails stuffed into every hole and nomming on the ridges of the cuts. I'm just glad they didn't cook themselves on the candles. It was quite the sight. Remarkably, none of the children were squeamish about it, and none of them attempted to kill the things.




Trying to get life back in order again. I jump every time the wife or kids cough. The wee one has a snotty fever. I'm hoping it's just colds...