Blog #11 Dusting off the old camera

Ok so I’ve dusted off the old camera. I tried the manual focusing on the camera and most pictures turned out fairly decent for the most part. I left a few of the blurry pictures in the group just to let people get a sort of behind the scenes look to show how all the pictures photographers make aren’t perfect. (I’ve labeled myself a photographer, isn’t that something? Ha!!) I really liked the pictures I took of my dog. It made me think of when I’m older and he’s gone I can have something to remember him by. I think it’s an interesting thing to think about.  Let’s be honest, he’s a pretty photogenic dog! The plan to take my camera to Wind Creek fell through due to my stupidity in forgetting to bring the camera with me to Alex City.  I took some of the photos the portrait way opposed to landscape. I think these would have been much more effective if the “models” didn’t move around too much. My computer is running dead, I would type some more and ramble on a little, but I need to get this uploaded because I don’t know where my charger is.

Manual Focusing Attempt

Blog #10

I haven’t done anything in a long time with the camera. There has been stuff to photograph at my house like squirrels and stuff, but all the flowers that bloomed decided to miraculously die. All the rain that recently came down probably killed them, but either way it’s no excuse for me not making any photos. I’m going to Alex City this weekend for a fishing tournament and if I go to the lake I could probably make some pretty good photos. My only concern would be getting the camera wet.  Although it’s not likely that that would happen, my brother got thrown off the boat the weekend before last when it was going forty miles an hour.  So there is a possibility that could happen. I think the tournament at Lake Martin this week is one that my dad and his friend created. They created a foundation called the Jim Landers Foundation, because my dad’s friend was killed in a hunting accident. Their hosting a fishing tournament in his honor and it might be this weekend I’m not sure. But the reason that relates to photography is because that would be my ride to the lake. We’d be going to Wind Creek which is a pretty scenic place because it’s a national and state park. They have a huge light house there and I could probably do some really cool illusion type photos there.

Blog #9

I haven’t taken any photos in a while. And quite frankly the weather has been poop. I feel like I have a type of writers block but with photography. I don’t know how to explain it really. There aren’t a lot of things to take pictures of around my house anymore. I could go back and take some photos of stuff I’ve taken just to see if I’ve improved any. I may stay up until 2 a.m.  And attempt to take some photos of the lunar eclipse or whatever is happening tonight. I’ve started to think about some ideas for the presentation that will be coming up eventually. The “blood moon” thing might be hard to see due to the rain and clouds and I may just be wasting my time, but I need to take some photos. I was thinking about doing a power point or put something together with movie maker. I need to come up with a way to make my speech fluent and easy to follow which is something I struggle with I think. I’ll probably just watch a few ted talks to see how they talk and present their information. It will probably be a watered down version of one of those.

Right now I’m watching the Bill Nye vs. Ken Ham debate and it’s interesting to watch how they use Rhetoric. Bill Nye talks as if he’s trying to make you trust him and befriend him. And on the contrary Ken Ham shoves information down your throat. But he also uses a lot of examples of scientists who believe in creationism which doesn’t even argue his case very well. Bill Nye brings up information and “facts” and he talks to you like a friend. But I just heard Bill Nye say furthermore, and I remember learning that in class. I'm done rambling though.

Blog #8

                So I went to the Georgia Aquarium this Spring Break. There are 221 photos I took that were half worthy or better of being uploaded. There were originally about 370, but half of the photos came out blurry or just looked bad. Some of the photos that were uploaded were blurry but the camera was acting up due to their no flash policy for most of the fish, which sucked because I couldn’t turn the action shots on to take high shutter speed photos which would’ve helped me make a lot more photos. I took as many photos as I could and also kept as many as I could. The reason I kept some of the blurry photos was because I wanted to keep as many fish as possible to show you all. I took a few photos of my niece and nephew. And this is a bit tricky but my step-sister’s brothers’ wife’s children. That’s a bit tricky to follow but the kid in the pink shirt is my niece and the kid in the lime-green under armor shirt is my nephew (step sisters kids). I took photos of all kinds of fish and I kept as many as I could. The whale sharks there were amazing and they were huge! I went to the “Dolphin Tales” show they held but no photography was allowed in it. I didn’t enjoy the musical aspect of it but the dolphin part was amazing. I sort of felt bad for the dolphins that were in the show because they were captured and forced to learn to do all of these tricks for show. I mean the things we do with dogs is similar but I hate the fact that the dolphins were like that. They seemed very content, exuberant even but it didn’t feel right to me, the fact they took this wild not domesticated animal and stuck it in a tank and made it learn to do the tricks. On the other hand I saw the Nemo fish! But I’m going to end the blog here. You’ll probably hear more about my tale some other time but I went to bed at 4 a.m. this morning and I can’t really function properly right now, so bye!

Georgia Aquarium 2014!!