I have begun the task of compiling song titles to use for photos.
The lyrics have an influence on what each photo is about.
Graffiti Six and Elton John figure in among the artists appearing on the list.
A more complete compilation will come.
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Danyelle.
Danyelle and her hubby operate Art Haus Ceramics in Severance, Colorado.
Their work is amazing. If you follow that link, it will take you to their Etsy store front.
(During our 90 minute session on location at her studio, Danyelle threw a tea set: pot, spout, and mugs, as well as other things.)
Their work is amazing. If you follow that link, it will take you to their Etsy store front.
(During our 90 minute session on location at her studio, Danyelle threw a tea set: pot, spout, and mugs, as well as other things.)
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Neglectful Ninny
I feel as though I have been neglecting my blog, but I have been neglecting a whole mess of things lately, so I guess neglecting the blog just makes it par for the course.
Last week was my last spring break as a college-degree-less woman.
I did truly nothing productive, aside from deal with some rearrangement issues that had been stagnating since my move back home last month. (There is still more to be done.)
There was a lot of Pinterest pinning, though (you can follow me here, if you have a Pinterest account, or request an invite in the comments on this post, if you don't have an account).
I also spent some quality time with my puppy, Bailey. There are worse things I could have done. =)
Attempts were made to catch up on notes from my anatomy class, but that's really all they were: attempts.
My family also had a fire to deal with. We lost a shed and its contents, but no one got hurt and nothing vital was lost.
In the move home, I seem to have lost my flash drive somewhere. It only had my school work on it, so I did not lose any client work, but I still mourn its disappearance. I bring this up because I need to share some more posts on what we've been doing in my studio class. (And there is work on the flash drive that has not yet been shared here.)
Oh well. Further posts are in order here, anyway, so I shall just upload the images straight from my laptop.
I have three shoots coming up before the end of the month: two this Friday and one next Saturday. I am excited about all of them, but the second one on Friday is especially exciting for me!
I will be writing more on that later, as well as sharing a link to a blog relating to that project.
Last week was my last spring break as a college-degree-less woman.
I did truly nothing productive, aside from deal with some rearrangement issues that had been stagnating since my move back home last month. (There is still more to be done.)
There was a lot of Pinterest pinning, though (you can follow me here, if you have a Pinterest account, or request an invite in the comments on this post, if you don't have an account).
I also spent some quality time with my puppy, Bailey. There are worse things I could have done. =)
Attempts were made to catch up on notes from my anatomy class, but that's really all they were: attempts.
My family also had a fire to deal with. We lost a shed and its contents, but no one got hurt and nothing vital was lost.
In the move home, I seem to have lost my flash drive somewhere. It only had my school work on it, so I did not lose any client work, but I still mourn its disappearance. I bring this up because I need to share some more posts on what we've been doing in my studio class. (And there is work on the flash drive that has not yet been shared here.)
Oh well. Further posts are in order here, anyway, so I shall just upload the images straight from my laptop.
I have three shoots coming up before the end of the month: two this Friday and one next Saturday. I am excited about all of them, but the second one on Friday is especially exciting for me!
I will be writing more on that later, as well as sharing a link to a blog relating to that project.
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Canon vs. Nikon
In my studio class, there exists a pretty even ratio of Nikon-to-Canon users. The other two students in class shoot Sony.
(Seeing all the trouble that the instructor is having getting equipment to work for the Sony shooters, I am very glad that I did not decide to go with a Sony Alpha when I purchased my dSLR.)
There seems to exist a strange divergence in the world between Nikon shooters and Canon users. (Or so it would seem.)
We even tease each other in class about it.
I like to think that I purchased a Canon camera because the definition of "canon" is: "a general law, rule, principle, or criterion by which something is judged."
...but, that's not why.
I chose a Canon because the point-and-shoot camera that I used directly before purchasing my dSLR was a Canon PowerShot SX110IS.
It was amazing: macro capabilities, non-Auto settings, manual focus, selective focus... It was beautiful. It was definitely a stepping stone on the way to a dSLR from a full-auto point-and-shoot.
I figured (and was proven correct!) that sticking with the same brand when it came time to purchase a dSLR was beneficial, in that I would already be familiar with the symbols and jargon. Because I owned a Canon previously, it was so much easier to acclimatize myself to a heftier camera.
At a wedding I shot a few years ago, the photographer I was working for handed me the film Nikon she was shooting with and asked for a photograph of her with her brother, the groom. I was a little intimidated, to be honest.
I had only had Betty (my camera) for a few months and was not 100% sure of what she was capable of. (I knew what I was doing, but I definitely did not know as much as I do now!) Then here I was, on the job, being handed a film Nikon. I felt like a stranger in a large city: I had only ever shot my parents' 35mm film camera* before, and it had a fixed-range lens.
Luckily, the lens on the Nikon had an auto-focus feature. I looked through the viewfinder, composed my shot, and pressed the shutter. When I wound the film to take a second frame, it sounded as though more film passed through than what should have, but I snapped a second photograph and then handed the camera back.
That was my grand extent and use of Nikons.
So, when a fellow photographer friend of mine came to me a few months ago, asking for help with her camera --she didn't quite understand white balance among other things and had been shooting full-auto for a while-- I filled in the basics.
Some of what I answered left her confused: she didn't know if her camera could do that or not, or where the button was to do that. We looked up an online manual for her camera, and I showed her a few things from what I had read. Then I encouraged her to go home and read her manual. I remember saying something to the effect of, "What you read may not make sense right now, but when you're out shooting and you want to do something, or you're reading a photo blog and the Nikon-shooting photographer mentions a certain technical aspect that can be done in-camera, it will click, and you will get it."
She's a lot more experienced now, and can navigate her Nikon a lot more expertly.
I don't think I had much to do with it. She has had a lot more time to use it now.
(She admitted to me today that she still hasn't read the manual. Ha.)
...notice I said "was" a few paragraphs ago: That was my grand extent and use of Nikons.
I shot maybe 50 pictures with her Nikon today, quite breezily.
I was not intimidated this time.
(Dare I say it?) I even liked it...
In fact, I would love to own a D90 or a D7000 one day, yes'm.
Honestly, I don't get the whole debate between Nikon shooters and Canon shooters.
I really don't.
Any photographer knows that the most important piece of photographic equipment that a photographer can have lies just behind the viewfinder.
The second most important piece of equipment lies directly opposite that in the lens.
...but, I will save that discussion for a later blog post.
*I said above that I had only ever shot my parents' 35mm film camera before. That's true, when it comes to the types of cameras that I had shot, in which the film had to be loaded, wound, and then rewound, similar to the Nikon I was speaking about. That old camera was not the only one I had ever shot before digital, however; I used countless numbers of disposable cameras and shot film on at least three others that used film packaged in canisters (meaning: I didn't touch it and the rewinding was done automatically by the push of a button). I did not mention these other cameras in the main part of the blog post because they are not like the Nikon in any way except that they used film.
(Seeing all the trouble that the instructor is having getting equipment to work for the Sony shooters, I am very glad that I did not decide to go with a Sony Alpha when I purchased my dSLR.)
There seems to exist a strange divergence in the world between Nikon shooters and Canon users. (Or so it would seem.)
We even tease each other in class about it.
I like to think that I purchased a Canon camera because the definition of "canon" is: "a general law, rule, principle, or criterion by which something is judged."
...but, that's not why.
I chose a Canon because the point-and-shoot camera that I used directly before purchasing my dSLR was a Canon PowerShot SX110IS.
It was amazing: macro capabilities, non-Auto settings, manual focus, selective focus... It was beautiful. It was definitely a stepping stone on the way to a dSLR from a full-auto point-and-shoot.
I figured (and was proven correct!) that sticking with the same brand when it came time to purchase a dSLR was beneficial, in that I would already be familiar with the symbols and jargon. Because I owned a Canon previously, it was so much easier to acclimatize myself to a heftier camera.
At a wedding I shot a few years ago, the photographer I was working for handed me the film Nikon she was shooting with and asked for a photograph of her with her brother, the groom. I was a little intimidated, to be honest.
I had only had Betty (my camera) for a few months and was not 100% sure of what she was capable of. (I knew what I was doing, but I definitely did not know as much as I do now!) Then here I was, on the job, being handed a film Nikon. I felt like a stranger in a large city: I had only ever shot my parents' 35mm film camera* before, and it had a fixed-range lens.
Luckily, the lens on the Nikon had an auto-focus feature. I looked through the viewfinder, composed my shot, and pressed the shutter. When I wound the film to take a second frame, it sounded as though more film passed through than what should have, but I snapped a second photograph and then handed the camera back.
That was my grand extent and use of Nikons.
So, when a fellow photographer friend of mine came to me a few months ago, asking for help with her camera --she didn't quite understand white balance among other things and had been shooting full-auto for a while-- I filled in the basics.
Some of what I answered left her confused: she didn't know if her camera could do that or not, or where the button was to do that. We looked up an online manual for her camera, and I showed her a few things from what I had read. Then I encouraged her to go home and read her manual. I remember saying something to the effect of, "What you read may not make sense right now, but when you're out shooting and you want to do something, or you're reading a photo blog and the Nikon-shooting photographer mentions a certain technical aspect that can be done in-camera, it will click, and you will get it."
She's a lot more experienced now, and can navigate her Nikon a lot more expertly.
I don't think I had much to do with it. She has had a lot more time to use it now.
(She admitted to me today that she still hasn't read the manual. Ha.)
...notice I said "was" a few paragraphs ago: That was my grand extent and use of Nikons.
I shot maybe 50 pictures with her Nikon today, quite breezily.
I was not intimidated this time.
(Dare I say it?) I even liked it...
In fact, I would love to own a D90 or a D7000 one day, yes'm.
Honestly, I don't get the whole debate between Nikon shooters and Canon shooters.
I really don't.
Any photographer knows that the most important piece of photographic equipment that a photographer can have lies just behind the viewfinder.
The second most important piece of equipment lies directly opposite that in the lens.
...but, I will save that discussion for a later blog post.
*I said above that I had only ever shot my parents' 35mm film camera before. That's true, when it comes to the types of cameras that I had shot, in which the film had to be loaded, wound, and then rewound, similar to the Nikon I was speaking about. That old camera was not the only one I had ever shot before digital, however; I used countless numbers of disposable cameras and shot film on at least three others that used film packaged in canisters (meaning: I didn't touch it and the rewinding was done automatically by the push of a button). I did not mention these other cameras in the main part of the blog post because they are not like the Nikon in any way except that they used film.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
=|;/\
I have only seen Jacob cry twice.
It seems so imbalanced; he's seen me cry dozens of times.
The first time I remember seeing him cry was last May, when we made the heart-wrenching decision to take Brat, our cat, into the vet to have her put down. I have never, in my life, seen a man cry as hard or as long as he did that night.
The last time I remember seeing him cry was last Thursday, when he left me standing on my grandma's porch to drive to Denver, where he will remain until I join him in May.
I am only reminded of this because I just finished bawling.
It wasn't one of those good, soul-cleansing cries, either.
It was a headache-inducing cry from grief. (I just finished watching a vimeo video that I have seen before, about Oden, a dog with cancer.)
...this time is different. I don't think I have cried because of grief in the five and a half years that we've been together, without having his hug to comfort me.
I know, I know: Denver was (initially) my idea.
And I'm not an idiot: I knew that this would be hard, living far apart after living together.
This is just one of those things that I'm going to have to re-learn how to do, and then re-unlearn.
Saturday, February 25, 2012
Perspective.
The year of Dave is over. Finally.
I am just now catching my breath enough to write a post (on this blog) about it.
When Jake and I moved into my uncle's house, we did so under the guise that it would be a great favor to the family. Living together under those conditions would also be a test to see if we could stand each other 24/7 without running the risk of breaking a lease.
After a couple months of living together, I had a pretty good idea of everything I believed in and stood for: my intuition had never been more receptive.
Then, my aunt died, and I had to take a more active role in my family: grandma's care fell (mostly) in my lap. I was in charge of driving her to her errands and appointments, setting up and organizing her prescriptions, paying her bills and balancing her checkbook, and making sure that she was taken care of. Under all of this, I lost touch with myself.
Things became more complicated when my uncle was allowed to leave jail and enter the work release program.
He required picked up every morning and dropped off every night, so he had to be scheduled in around everything and everyone else. (Plus he's not exactly my first-choice candidate for person of the year award; his flaws are numerous and annoying. More on that on my personal blog.)
...but after all the complications, all the tears, all the worry and angst and anxiety, it's over. It's done. He's home.
Jake is in Denver, and I am in my old room at my parents' house.
He looks for work to lay a foundation to build our collective life on, while I look for myself. I hope these three months alone will give me enough time for introspection to regain confidence in myself. It's not that it couldn't happen with Jake by my side --it did last year-- there are just a lot of extra complications this year than there were last year.
Besides, I am used to being alone. I was an only child and spent a lot of time figuring things out on my own, so I relish and require space and time to myself.
I will be spending this time reorganizing my space, since we just kind of threw the boxes from my uncle's house in here. School is still in session, so I have to focus on that, too. Plus there are all kinds of photography gigs opening up to me. (I can name 6 between now and the end of May.) Gardening and flower-tending will also be happening over the next few months. And, since we have an entire house now devoted to crafty goodness, there will be plenty of crafting happening. So much crafting, in fact, that I may open my Etsy site.
(I'm hoping to open it this coming week, anyway, just with photographic prints.) Watch my twitter account (@beccaellaphoto) for updates on that.
It will be good to realign myself over this coming quarter. Perhaps I will even gain a new perspective between now and May.
I am just now catching my breath enough to write a post (on this blog) about it.
When Jake and I moved into my uncle's house, we did so under the guise that it would be a great favor to the family. Living together under those conditions would also be a test to see if we could stand each other 24/7 without running the risk of breaking a lease.
After a couple months of living together, I had a pretty good idea of everything I believed in and stood for: my intuition had never been more receptive.
Then, my aunt died, and I had to take a more active role in my family: grandma's care fell (mostly) in my lap. I was in charge of driving her to her errands and appointments, setting up and organizing her prescriptions, paying her bills and balancing her checkbook, and making sure that she was taken care of. Under all of this, I lost touch with myself.
Things became more complicated when my uncle was allowed to leave jail and enter the work release program.
He required picked up every morning and dropped off every night, so he had to be scheduled in around everything and everyone else. (Plus he's not exactly my first-choice candidate for person of the year award; his flaws are numerous and annoying. More on that on my personal blog.)
...but after all the complications, all the tears, all the worry and angst and anxiety, it's over. It's done. He's home.
Jake is in Denver, and I am in my old room at my parents' house.
He looks for work to lay a foundation to build our collective life on, while I look for myself. I hope these three months alone will give me enough time for introspection to regain confidence in myself. It's not that it couldn't happen with Jake by my side --it did last year-- there are just a lot of extra complications this year than there were last year.
Besides, I am used to being alone. I was an only child and spent a lot of time figuring things out on my own, so I relish and require space and time to myself.
I will be spending this time reorganizing my space, since we just kind of threw the boxes from my uncle's house in here. School is still in session, so I have to focus on that, too. Plus there are all kinds of photography gigs opening up to me. (I can name 6 between now and the end of May.) Gardening and flower-tending will also be happening over the next few months. And, since we have an entire house now devoted to crafty goodness, there will be plenty of crafting happening. So much crafting, in fact, that I may open my Etsy site.
(I'm hoping to open it this coming week, anyway, just with photographic prints.) Watch my twitter account (@beccaellaphoto) for updates on that.
It will be good to realign myself over this coming quarter. Perhaps I will even gain a new perspective between now and May.
Friday, February 24, 2012
Great news!
Remember how I said that I would like to pursue foodtography? Well, I submitted a few photos to a magazine looking for food photos for inclusion into an upcoming edition, and one of mine caught someone's eye!
It's not a for-sure thing yet, but the fact that they are looking at it with consideration makes me giddy and excited!
Stay tuned. I will definitely let you know how this turns out!
It's not a for-sure thing yet, but the fact that they are looking at it with consideration makes me giddy and excited!
Stay tuned. I will definitely let you know how this turns out!
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