f-stop, shutter speed, white balance, AV, Tv, Flash drive, RAW, RAW-JPG - WAIT! my brain is going on overload. I took this class for fun not to memorize a foreign dictionary. I have 1,289 buttons on my camera, an instruction manual the size of a dictionary and a brain the size of the pea.
Trying to keep up with all the new terms I have to learn and all the buttons I have to push to make an image come life is giving me a migraine.
Whatever happened to my wonderful one button Brownie insta-matic? Aim And Shoot. Yep that's what I want RETRO!!!!
Last night I couldn't even access my programs because everything was in Arabic. I am writing frantically to keep up with the directions from the professor who keeps turning out the lights so I have to try and write in the DARK!
My eyes have RED circles that look like one of those twirling discs people use to hypnotize the unwary, my hair has cowlicks stticking up all over and I really need help.
So I lean across my desk to ask my classmate if she could give me a hand.
Unfazed she looks at me with that quizzical, are you kidding me, you can't get this look, while she is busily typing away on her personal Blog Site and looking at the web sites of other photographers, SHE HAS ALREADY PRINTED HER PHOTOGRAPHS while I am still trying to find mine.
With half a heart she reaches over, pushes a button and all of sudden my computer lights up the screen starts rolling lights are flashing, web sites are scrolling and Eureka!! There it is. Just like the professor said it was.
I don't like her, my class mate. ;~)
She never takes notes, she never reads assignments, says she is too busy taking pictures, she already has 2,139 pictures enough to finish the course and I am stuck on 36 all of my dog lying down and standing up.
I don't like her, my classmate. ;~)
But you know what? I am stuck with her because she knows which button to push to make my computer work.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
CHEEP DATES # 2
Recently I returned from a wonderful and fun-filled vacation to Las Vegas. I took a dear friend there for her birthday and it was her first time. As with any place I have seen and I have the wonderful opportunity to re-visit and see through another person's eyes this was no exception. It so rewarding to watch someone share the same delight I experienced.
However, staying consistent with one of my earlier posts it should not come as a surprise I still enjoy the Budget Plan and always seek ways to minimize my financial impact.
Thus was the case in Las Vegas and I whole heartedly recommend it to anyone that has the fortitude to just say "No!"
Looking for tickets to shows we came across a ticket desk advertising show tickets so naturally we wondered in that direction. Unbeknownst to us this was a Sales Gimmick desk. It was a vacation time share promo.
So here is the deal-for $40 CASH they will give you vouchers for a show and gaming tokens. My suspicious mind say's Yeah Sure! but since this was Las Vegas and gambling is the game in town I decided to go ahead. We were trucked as so many cattle, to a waiting conference hall with the typical high pressure - totally UnFunny-sales staff and mangerial hammers.
To make a loooong story short the end result is this, we spent 3-hours of our non-vital time to listen to the sales spiel, meet with two high pressure hammers, then a final "No" at the receptionists desk and the trip back to our hotel where we cashed in our gaming voucher for SLOT machine credits (this is important because they gave us cash) $75.00 and our two free show tickets $58.00 each.
So for a $40 gamble our winnings amounted to $151 and once again I had accomplished a Bargain Basement Date!!!!
However, staying consistent with one of my earlier posts it should not come as a surprise I still enjoy the Budget Plan and always seek ways to minimize my financial impact.
Thus was the case in Las Vegas and I whole heartedly recommend it to anyone that has the fortitude to just say "No!"
Looking for tickets to shows we came across a ticket desk advertising show tickets so naturally we wondered in that direction. Unbeknownst to us this was a Sales Gimmick desk. It was a vacation time share promo.
So here is the deal-for $40 CASH they will give you vouchers for a show and gaming tokens. My suspicious mind say's Yeah Sure! but since this was Las Vegas and gambling is the game in town I decided to go ahead. We were trucked as so many cattle, to a waiting conference hall with the typical high pressure - totally UnFunny-sales staff and mangerial hammers.
To make a loooong story short the end result is this, we spent 3-hours of our non-vital time to listen to the sales spiel, meet with two high pressure hammers, then a final "No" at the receptionists desk and the trip back to our hotel where we cashed in our gaming voucher for SLOT machine credits (this is important because they gave us cash) $75.00 and our two free show tickets $58.00 each.
So for a $40 gamble our winnings amounted to $151 and once again I had accomplished a Bargain Basement Date!!!!
FIRST DAY PERSPECTIVE
What is interesting is to follow the Blog of my classmate (niece) and her first day of school and my perspective of my first day of class.
Note if you will, I am more pessimistic ( my hero is Eeyore) our professor bored me. Well not completely but quite a bit of the times and I remembered how when I was an active student, I had profs I enjoyed and profs I could easily have done On-Line. This one falls in the middle. However, on an optimistic note, I am excited about some of the things she has indicated we will cover. My input was I am interested in traveling and portrait photography but fail to have a perspective and interpretive eye when I am looking at something, I know what I want my photograph to state I just don't always capture that. She, the professor, promises to cover this as well as the many things my classmate talked about in her Blog.
I recalled last night while I stayed up past my bedtime reading my assignment for tonight how many times I did this for 3 and 4 classes, and here I am doing this just for one class - but wait! I am changing my student status to AUDIT where pass or fail is not an issue. Wheeeee I can turn out the light and go to bed. So much for Chapter 3, I'll try and capture you during my lunch break. MAYBE - there is still the weekend.
In truth (dang-it) I really did enjoy myself and I do look forward to this quarter with high expectations. Secretly, it was so much fun watching my niece going through the Freshman phase. She was a delight to be with. Don't tell her though.
Note if you will, I am more pessimistic ( my hero is Eeyore) our professor bored me. Well not completely but quite a bit of the times and I remembered how when I was an active student, I had profs I enjoyed and profs I could easily have done On-Line. This one falls in the middle. However, on an optimistic note, I am excited about some of the things she has indicated we will cover. My input was I am interested in traveling and portrait photography but fail to have a perspective and interpretive eye when I am looking at something, I know what I want my photograph to state I just don't always capture that. She, the professor, promises to cover this as well as the many things my classmate talked about in her Blog.
I recalled last night while I stayed up past my bedtime reading my assignment for tonight how many times I did this for 3 and 4 classes, and here I am doing this just for one class - but wait! I am changing my student status to AUDIT where pass or fail is not an issue. Wheeeee I can turn out the light and go to bed. So much for Chapter 3, I'll try and capture you during my lunch break. MAYBE - there is still the weekend.
In truth (dang-it) I really did enjoy myself and I do look forward to this quarter with high expectations. Secretly, it was so much fun watching my niece going through the Freshman phase. She was a delight to be with. Don't tell her though.
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