1/2 Hour of Freedom
It's amazing how much time 1/2 an hour can be. Today we got to leave work early for the 'holiday'. Actually it was probably because most of the office was leaving early anyway, so they decided to let the rest of us go too. 1/2 an hour usually doesn't seem like much, but getting to leave work early...now that makes it seem...well, it was a good 1/2 hour.
So I spent the weekend trying to complete my next assignment for class. We have to shoot a documentary. I decided to document the life of an apple. Don't know that this will be what the teacher was looking for, but part of me has started not to care. I get really stressed out about it having the "right" images. And making sure I get a good grade. Which is all well and good, but I took this class for enjoyment. I'm not using it for a degree or anything (already got a couple of those that aren't doing me any good.) So why get all worked up about it. If the teacher doesn't like it, he doesn't like it.
So anyway, I went out to the local apple orchard to take pictures. Turns out apple season is basically over. I was hoping to get a picture of an apple on the tree to start my documentary series, and I did find a couple. But they were like baby apples. I got some shots of decent looking apples on the ground under the trees, so hopefully something will work out. The I got shots of the apple on the table in the fruit bowl, getting sliced, sliced apples in the pie plate, and a picture of some apple crisp. Hopefully they turn out.
It was stated that we could document anything. I don't particularly like photographing people, so I choose a subject that wasn't people. Hopefully that will work.
My next major hurdle is coming up with a creative final project. I have some pictures of...well a friend of mine called them cobblestones, that I really like. And I took some pictures when I was visiting my brother in the Chicago area of other tiles/bricks/whatever in various different shapes and patterns. I just haven't come up with a way to...justify?...taking these pictures and turning them into a project.
After our last critique in class, I was feeling a bit...down about my photographs. Probably due in part to the fact that I didn't like any of the pictures that I put up last time. But over the weekend I went to visit a friend of mine and showed her my prints. She loved them all. It made me feel a little better about my stuff.
Anyway, that's all for now. And someday when I get access to a scanner and can scan all my prints, I will post some of them for those of you who want to see what I keep blabbing on and on about.
[I realized that my title for this post really has nothing much to do with the majority of the post. I thought about changing it, but for those of you who know the real me (not my Tallulah persona) know that I rarely can keep on one subject for too long before meandering off on some tangent or another, or two or three tangents. But as that's the joy of me, I decided to leave it as is.]
So I spent the weekend trying to complete my next assignment for class. We have to shoot a documentary. I decided to document the life of an apple. Don't know that this will be what the teacher was looking for, but part of me has started not to care. I get really stressed out about it having the "right" images. And making sure I get a good grade. Which is all well and good, but I took this class for enjoyment. I'm not using it for a degree or anything (already got a couple of those that aren't doing me any good.) So why get all worked up about it. If the teacher doesn't like it, he doesn't like it.
So anyway, I went out to the local apple orchard to take pictures. Turns out apple season is basically over. I was hoping to get a picture of an apple on the tree to start my documentary series, and I did find a couple. But they were like baby apples. I got some shots of decent looking apples on the ground under the trees, so hopefully something will work out. The I got shots of the apple on the table in the fruit bowl, getting sliced, sliced apples in the pie plate, and a picture of some apple crisp. Hopefully they turn out.
It was stated that we could document anything. I don't particularly like photographing people, so I choose a subject that wasn't people. Hopefully that will work.
My next major hurdle is coming up with a creative final project. I have some pictures of...well a friend of mine called them cobblestones, that I really like. And I took some pictures when I was visiting my brother in the Chicago area of other tiles/bricks/whatever in various different shapes and patterns. I just haven't come up with a way to...justify?...taking these pictures and turning them into a project.
After our last critique in class, I was feeling a bit...down about my photographs. Probably due in part to the fact that I didn't like any of the pictures that I put up last time. But over the weekend I went to visit a friend of mine and showed her my prints. She loved them all. It made me feel a little better about my stuff.
Anyway, that's all for now. And someday when I get access to a scanner and can scan all my prints, I will post some of them for those of you who want to see what I keep blabbing on and on about.
[I realized that my title for this post really has nothing much to do with the majority of the post. I thought about changing it, but for those of you who know the real me (not my Tallulah persona) know that I rarely can keep on one subject for too long before meandering off on some tangent or another, or two or three tangents. But as that's the joy of me, I decided to leave it as is.]
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