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the digital [SLR] photo class take 1 |
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| Written by Diana, on 12-08-2007 22:47 |
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I have the worst stomach ache. I didn't eat anything out of the ordinary, no soda or anything I haven't eaten every other day. Like I can't sit up right or stand or walk or anything, I'm laying on my bed praying it will go away. I didn't even take any weird pills. Water didn't even help. I went to a digital photography class today with my father and I learned A LOT even though the guy didn't talk all that much. He sounded very impressed with my FujiFilm S3 Pro which was cool. It was two hours but he went around and made sure everyone knew how to do each thing with their particular camera. There was a lot of sitting around doing nothing. One lady purchased her camera like that day, she had the box on the table with her. The five points he wanted us to learn where how and when to use flash, how and when to change ISO, how and when to change white balance, always format memory cards when new or when photos are movied to computer and copied to CD and he stressed the copy to CD part, and then always shoot at the highest size and quality (dpi) picture. He also discussed memory cards (always have a backup, which of course I don't) and batteries (ditto) and what the differences are when it comes to cost vs. quality. He also discussed custom settings for white balance which sounded really cool but the "Expo Disk" that you have to buy costs $50-$100. The class cost $50 each but then you get a $25 Sammy's Camera coupon each. We also had to drive to Santa Ana which was an hour one way without traffic and an hour and a half plus back on a sunday evening. Our next class is on a Tuesday evening so the drive is going to be much worse. My dad told me to keep the coupons and we could get me something at the end but I was thinking we should each get an Expo Disk so we'll both have one, or he can have all four of them since he paid for the classes. He wants a new camera body all together, 12MP like mine, he needs bigger memory card(s) (he had a 128MB card today whereas I have a 4GB card) but he has backup memory cards and I don't. Then he also wants to get a printer that prints larger photos. The had a couple that did up to 13"x19" I think. He's retired so he can't just go crazy but we also saw AWSOME telescopes that we could hook our cameras up to. The largest they had was 16" and over $12,000! It was really cool despite the high price tag. He wants to use my camera but I want us to each have our own stuff because I don't want him changing my settings but I also don't want to have to borrow his macro lense. What if he wants it? I used to have to borrow his tripod but they got me a new one for my birthday so we don't have to and it's much easier. If he and I go out, we each can take pictures on a tripod. We'll see, right now my stomach still hurts and I'm tired, and even though I really don't want to sleep tonight, I just might not have that option. I didn't sleep much last night since I had to set my alarm this morning. I was starting a new section of my work's website as a proposal and it took me a bit to figure out how to get it just right. More Joomla! stuff but it will be really cool if I can get it integrated into the main site and have it actually be benificial to our clients. There are so many "outside" projects that I'm working on ON MY OWN TIME that I'm stretched a little thin right now. When I get to work I usually drag my feet when it comes to doing my regular daily tasks.
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