Counting Down

I have one thing, and one thing only, on my brain right now; it's so hard to concentrate on anything else unless I can relate it back to the fact that I am going to Disneyland in 28 days!!!!

Today a friend of mine (and what a coincidence is it that she'll be my companion to the happiest place on earth) and I decided to have a little fun and make ourselves a countdown calendar because we're just that excited. I made a smart move this time and actually remembered to grab my tripod before leaving my house, otherwise I doubt I would have been able to get any pictures. We got some of the Disney paint chips that you can get from Home Depot that are shaped like Mickey Mouse heads (so cute!) and glued them to a big black poster board. We still need to add a few small touches, but the big things are out of the way.

First day with RAW

So I tried to get a start on our next assignment, quality of light, since Monday, but I made a pretty small (or large) little error - I forgot to shoot in RAW and was still working with JPEGS. Yet another smart move, Jazz! So those images are out the window for this assignment. I just didn't notice until right before I went out to lunch with my sister at Red Robin. So I haven't made much of a start on this assignment, but I did shoot my first few images in RAW. I really love a lot of the lighting and lamps that they have at the restaurant but we had to be out of there pretty fast so I didn't get all the photos I wanted, but at least I tried a few, and then of course there was our wonderful dog, Mackenzie, who is always happy to see us when we come home. The lighting in our house is horrible (we're a bunch of cave people it feels like) so there isn't much light in this image, but I really love it regardless.


I'm really looking to getting some variety in for this assignment, though. I have a hockey game coming up on March 3rd (San Jose Sharks vs. Dallas Stars) and I'm really hoping to get some images at HP Pavillion - yet another source of lighting I get to play around with more. I've been having a little trouble with my exposure at games because that ice just wants to blow out everything. But I'm determined, so it will happen. And I know it'll be too late for this assignment, but I'm going to be at Disneyland in just 30 days! I'm looking forward to going camera crazy there. The last time I went I went a little overboard according to some people, but I go for the atmosphere and taking photos is what I do since I'm too much of a scaredy-cat to go on any rides.