I’m really enjoying my camera and learning a few things from H.E. about shooting. One of the things he has always told me is that if I want to challenge myself sometime, I should try to shoot some soccer action shots. Soccer, he says, like lacrosse, is hard to shoot well. It’s fast moving, relentless, and unpredictable. I’ve seen soccer on TV, and it’s probably one of the most boring sports I’ve ever watched. They always shoot it wide, with…
In the last episode of The Office—a damn fine rendition of the original British show, by the way—the boss starts up a gift-giving-and-taking game of Yankee Swap. This is a game in which everyone brings a gift and puts it under the tree for the giving part, and then all hell breaks loose in the taking part. Once upon a time, in that office in which I found my own personal hell, the big boss, Chert Bitterman—whose name really isn’t…
Two for the price of one. I’m still new at this photography thing (15 hours total in the pilot seat, maybe), so pretty much everything I do is experimental. For the two shots above, however, I went clear across the country and shot in conditions I’ve never shot before. First shot? H.E. bought me a light and umbrella set so I can learn old-fashioned light modelling. There was actually another purpose to his buying it; he wanted to get a…
Last time I’d been in Maryland, it had a late fall so that I could see the autumn leaves. This time, it had an early winter so that I could see the cold and snow. I was born on a Pacific island, and I’ve lived in Southern California nearly all of my life, so I’m not accustomed to 20-40 degree weather, but I actually liked it. I was warm enough in my pseudo pashmina, boating jacket (no, I don’t actually…
Pshaw. Now I know why I don’t join blogging teams. One of my publishers has a blog, and I was scheduled to post today, except that life had a couple of unplanned events in stock for me, and as usual, I posted late. This meant, of course, that I had to put off working on the Illustration Friday topic, which I wanted to do so I could post it today. Since I didn’t get a chance to work on it…