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School Hard

Good evening faithful followers, the lack of faithful followers and whoever happens to pass by!

Firstly I haven’t posted because I’m lazy…sorta. My last job had me by the proverbial nuts which ended with me not posting, not sleeping, always eating and rocking myself in a dark corner of any given room.

Guys I suffer from a serious case of OCD and as you know I haven’t posted in like forever! But I have been copiously writing in the last couple of months, just not posting.  So the compulsive in me tried in vain to back date my posts. That did not happen. It clearly did not work. So gentle readers I'm hoping to update aplenty!

Getting back to previously written posts, enjoy the first!

18 July 2012

(So yesterday was the mum’s birthday and we nom-ed at Nourish! If you haven’t been there, do yourself an immense favour and go now!)

Today I began this really awesome photography course with Stephen Railton Photography, thanks Groupon for that awesome deal.

Now for those of you who know me, you are aware of my complete inability to direct myself, I generally follow the skyline and move towards what looks most familiar. This was the strategy employed today whilst trying to find Mackeurtan Avenue, see Durban North region.

This resulted in me being 45 minutes late to a two hour class, Mr Railton was kind enough to give me a courtesy call, whilst stuck in non-moving Inanda traffic, in which I assured him I would be there...eventually.

The class is being held at Northwood Boys, and BTW FYI every high school smells the same. 

It smells of shame, disinfectant and mass amounts of sweaty boys-many of which were running around as I parked off.

I dash in, trying to be inconspicuous and trip across my own legs and find a seat at the front of the class- high school déjà vu.

Okay! So back to the class!

There was, as I’m told, a fantastically compelling intro (which I missed) followed by camera basics, i.e. this is the lens. But high five self, I totally knew my lens! The rest of class centred on types of camera’s, flashes, presets, len’s etc.

Then The Rule of Thirds came into effect, the basic concept of which I understand, but alas we shall how this comes out in the photos. Finally Composition was discussed at length, I won’t bore you with the details.

Assignment 1:

1.  Photograph a landscape using the Rule of Thirds.
2.  Photograph an object from an extremely high angle.
3.  Photograph an object from a low angle.

Parameter's include Complete Auto and Composition.

Boom! Next post, the fruit of my Assignment labour! 

Inca Mummy Girl

So it occurs to me that my last post occured over a year and a bit ago.
Why you ask?

Well I got lazy! (hence the title...erm cos mummy's are lazy...and dead...)

I didn't have much to write about...and then suddenly I did!

So much so that I truly had zero time in which to write about all the awesomeness I was going to write about! Which leads me to today! April 19th 2012 I have finally figured and remembered how to log onto my account and here i sit typing away...at work...meh!

I can finally say I have a sort of topic that I'm heading towards! I am the recent owner of a delicious Nikon D3100 and have been trying to take up photograpghy for awhile now, purchase made and here I am.

That being said one of my projects is going to track my foray into this interesting world that speaks of apertures, ISO and other unknown things!

Excited! Pleased! And hopefully the photo's won't be that shite!

Btw fyi ---> the interest sort of sprang from that...its gorgeous and in Grahamstown!
It was amazing, I was cold, mad awesome friends, learn't so much and took that pic! Lord I hope I get better!