Showing posts with label class. Show all posts
Showing posts with label class. Show all posts
Sunday, May 08, 2011
Cupcake Class Fail
This little girl (really not so little considering she is about to turn 29) loves cupcakes.
She loves to make them, eat them, decorate them, eat them some more.
One day the little girl saw an offer on Groupon - Cupcake Decorating Class.
"HOORAY!" the little girl thought, "now I can finally learn how to decorate cupcakes so they don't look like a 5 year old frosted them". And so, she bought the deal.
Fast forward two months and the big day was finally here! The little girl was excited and a little nervous (and probably a little hung over since it was early on a Saturday morning).
Tuesday, March 01, 2011
Photography 101
I took a few photography classes in high school with my dads old Pentax SLR camera. Pretty much from the first click I was in love. The sound of the shutter is music to my ears. I especially loved the developing part of photography class (yes - this was back in the day when we used film cameras, not digital!). I loved being in the dark room - so dark, quiet and peaceful. Developing the film and seeing your images on that first contact sheet. And the best part - watching your photos come to life in the developing chemicals. The image literally appears before your eyes.
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| Central Park 2004 - taken with my SLR |
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| Marist College - Florence 2003! |
Did I mention that the last photography course I took was in the spring of 2003? That would be SEVEN years before I got my hands on another SLR camera (which makes me sick to think that it was seven - oh wait now EIGHT years since I was studying in Florence). To say I had forgotten how to use an SLR would be an understatement. Sure, I knew what the aperture and the shutter speed did on a camera - but did I remember how to set them properly to take a good picture? Not even a chance.
After a few months of playing around with the manual settings on my own and getting fairly frustrated, I knew I needed some help. So, I decided to take a photography course. I didn't want to take a semester long course at college, really all I needed was a refresher. And thats when I found LSP. London School of Photography. They offer short courses (either one weekend or four nights after work) for beginners, intermediates and in special topics.
Finally, my week had come - I was going back to school! It was a little hard sitting in a class room for 3 hours after a long day of work, but once we really got in to the material the time literally flew by.
What did we learn about?
Besides all of the obvious stuff - the bones of a dSLR, what photography is (playing with light) - we learned about...
Capturing light in dark rooms...
Painting with light...
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| I managed to get this image by myself by setting the camera on the kitchen table, pushing the button and then running in to position to make the heart shape with the candle I was holding...all in the dark |
Ok - this picture didn't have anything to do with lessons learned in class, but I was dog sitting that week and he's just too cute not to take pictures of!
Back to the lessons...
We learned about capturing moving objects and objects in motion...
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| Is it just me or does the guy on the bike look like a ghost? |
Depth of field...
And all of these lessons rolled in to one!
On the last day of class we were each given individual assignments and then we went down to Chinatown to shoot images for this assignment.
My assignment was "details".
Go figure.
I think my teacher caught on to my macro setting obsession.
Here are my final photos from my final project -
Overall I was very happy with this class. It wasn't too intense and didn't move too fast. I got a really good refresher on all of the parts of the camera - and most importantly - I felt in control of the camera again.
Most times...
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