A Day of Fun

I went out with a friend today to have a silly day outside and we found a hidden stash of bubbles in her garage so we decided to have some fun them today.









I have also finally finished editing the 1500+ photos I took at Disneyland and figured I would share a few of my favorites.


it's not always easy taking pictures while spinning in the crazy teacups

My Grandmother

The assignment that we're working on right now is to retouch a damaged photograph. I was on the verge of having to distress and image all on my own because we seem to have zero old photographs in my house! All that we have are old oil paintings it seems like, but no pictures. I didn't find any until about an hour before our first open lab. I don't even know what possessed me to look into an old lock box, but I did, and guess what I found?

It's a photograph of my grandmother (on my step-dads side) that I am absolutely in love with. Now the question is can I give it any justice?

Corruption & Sunshine

I always seem to get hit by some little mess when it comes to these assignments! This week I got struck by the corrupted files - what a mess! I haven't had a lot of chances to get night shots because of my work schedule, and the one time that I did I completely lost all of my images. I went to retrieve them with my card reader and my laptop wouldn't recognize the device and I couldn't figure out why until I troubleshooted with our PC. Sure enough I got that lovely little pop up message that said something along the lines of: Sorry! You're SOL today, the files you are trying to reach are corrupted. Fun times.

I'm going to see if I can get one more night in before turning in everything on Wednesday so I can have them on my contact sheet at the very least, but we'll see.

We did have some nice weather today though, so I had a little outdoor craft day. I love the sun!

Sharks Hockey

Just a couple of extra shots from last night's game of HP Pavilion and the boys on the ice. I played around with the levels and curves on these for the first time.

HP Pavilion

Last night I went to my first hockey in roughly 2 months. As much as I love hockey and the San Jose Sharks, let's just say that it was long overdue. I've been taking my cameras to games for roughly 3 years now, but until last night's game against Dallas, I've never challenged myself by shooting the whole game manually. It's not that easy. Actually, it's nowhere close to being easy. But I also got to test out my newest lens (55-200 mm), which was very much needed with my seats far away from the ice. Sports are never easy to shoot because of how fast the action can be, especially when you have shaky, cold hands! Too bad you can't take tripos in!

I had fun going around during the intermissions after each period of play (that is when I wasn't busy eating something) and here's what I shot:

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.