The Crit #2 (Light & Form)

Critique today (Wednesday, April 3rd) was amazing.  Much better than last time.  I learned a lot about what doesn't work, and what does.  I posted my funny trees from the SLU area, the stairway to nowhere, the fire-truck reflection and the SLU church through the branches photos.  Kate loves the tree that looks like it's "raining light."  Several people liked the SLU church shot.  Many could not figure out the fire truck... it looked like a bus, according to one person.  But once it became clear it was a reflection of firemen in the side of the truck, they liked it a lot.  Kate told us that this class is doing very well compared to her other classes.  She's aware of how hard we are working and I can tell that she's proud of us.

Tyler's Move

We got on the road at 5am to go move Tyler into his new apartment in Orlando.  Sam will come down next week.  This is kind of a bittersweet moment.  I'm happy for this chapter of his life, but sooooo sad to know that his permanent home will be in another state, so far away.  I guess it gives me an incentive to go to Orlando more often ;)

The trailer is swaying so much.  It's packed correctly but I feel it's going to whip us off the road soon. I called U-Haul roadside assistance. They sent a text to us, I clicked that link and they were able to pinpoint our exact location.  That's way cool. They told us to try going a bit under the speed limit (55-65) and that really does seem to be helping a lot. Sometimes we have to change lanes and speed up to avoid getting crushed, and as soon as we go over 65 it starts swaying again.  So we will arrive at our destination later, but at least James can relax his grip on the steering wheel.

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I got my camera back!!

My Nikon D5100 has been fixed!  The mirror inside the body cracked somehow right after I started this class.  I have had to use my daughter's... Which was fine except there's a bunch of debris inside her camera.  Now that I have mine back I can send her's off for a good cleaning.  I have had many shots ruined because of the fuzz/strings/hair/dust or whatever it is in her camera.  Oh well, it got me over the hump. Now I need to re-acclimate to my camera ;)

Sherrie

Blog posts moved after titles added

POSITIVE:  I just realized that there is a way to title my blog posts.  That is exciting and will make it easier to find artists that I have discovered.  This also drives home how all the metadata will help us with our organization in Light Room.  I have over 1000 photos in two months, so I can see how if we don't include specifics, this can get out of hand in a big hurry!  When this class is over and I have more time I will be going back in to label the photos with more specifics.

NEGATIVE:  After going back in and updating all of my blog posts with titles, I noticed that a couple of them moved around, out of the order I posted them.  For example... I posted pictures from James Nachtwey one day, then posted a comment about the similarity of one of his photos to W. Eugene Smith's "Tomoko Uemura In Her Bath." Now that follow-up comment is posted out of order on today's date, as opposed to the day I originally posted it.  Strange how blogging works.  One of these days maybe I will figure it out ;)

Nachtwey and Smith

I was wondering why the top picture I posted yesterday by James Nachtwey looked so familiar.  It's very similar to the one discussed in class March 11th:  W.  Eugene Smith "Tomoko Uemura in her bath."  VERY similar!

SMITH

NACHTWEY

Not sure I got it right, yet

This past weekend I was able to get quite a few pictures depicting light at night.  A couple of them might even be pretty good, I hope.  But after listening to Kate re-explain the Light and Form assignment again yesterday, I think I may still need to get a couple more shots.  I know I got some interesting shots, I just need to take another good hard look at what I have (and print a few of them) before I will know for sure if I need to take a few more or not.

What I love about Blogging

When this class first started I had never blogged a day in my life, so I didn't know how to post photos and links for the artists I was finding.  I didn't want to fall behind, so I have been keeping a running list in my class binder/journal.  Once I figured out how to post them a couple of weeks ago, I put a few on at one time, so I could get them caught up.  I was doing research in lab yesterday and it's possible I still need one or two more artists to bring myself current.  I still have several more in my binder, so I have plenty of material.  You know, the cool thing about this blogging assignment to find one artist per week is that the bread crumb trails from one artist that I find usually leads me to so many more.  I really, really love that. 

Sherrie