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Month: April 2007

tennis serve

tennis serve

For the Class with Dave group. When I did the motion assignment I had already gotten the frozen time aspect down I think, so I wanted to capture something a little more natural. I wish I had had more time to watch the Carrick High School tennis team practice, but it was raining pretty bad and their coach made them pack it in. Luckily though, he was nice enough to let one kid serve a couple more for me so I could get this shot.

Assignment 1. Frozen Time. We’ve played with motion blur, but there is another very powerful way to convey energy, freeze motion in a way that can’t possibly just exist. High shutter speed in plenty of light will give a nice sharp image no matter how fast your subject may be moving. Images will be judged on sharpness.

4-10-07

Day 242 of 365 days. What with being constantly sick and then having a trip to that conference in Boston and then being constantly sick again, it occurred to me that I really hadn’t done anything superinteresting or fun for this project in a while. In a lot of ways I felt like I was…

4-9-07

Day 241 of 365 days. I may be sick as a dog, but that doesn’t mean I had an easy day. I spent most of the day moving things from my old bedroom to my new one. Tonight will be the first night Steph and I sleep up there on the new bed. I am…

4-8-07

Day 240 of 365 days. And I’m home… finally. Not that I didn’t have a nice time in Boston, because I did. But its nice to be home now too. All the traveling has made it harder for me to get over my flu. And Meron was sick too, so I’m really hoping we didn’t…

4-7-07

Day 239 of 365 days. Still not feeling great, but I did get a chance to see some of Boston today. Went to another (much smaller) conference to see my friend present another paper and from there we walked around a bit and got some brunch again (ended up at the same place as yesterday,…

4-6-07

Day 238 of 365 days. Spent a lazy day in Boston. I’m mostly over being sick, but I’m still really tired from everything the flu took out of me, and my lungs are full of fluid, so I’m coughing a lot. It was really cold, and my friend, Meron, is also sick, so we mostly…

4-5-07

Day 237 of 365 days. And I am done. The talk went well. About 30 people attended my session, and they seemed more interested in me than the other speakers (at least judging by the question and answer phase). One of the panelists didn’t show up so I had a little more time to talk…

4-4-07

Day 236 of 365 days. This will likely be the lamest picture in this entire project. Honestly, I probably could have taken it with my webcam if I had thought about it, but I didn’t. Its taken with my old G3 (which yes, I still don’t like the quality of it, but I was way…

4-3-07

Day 235 of 365 days. I’ve done long exposure shots before, even in this project, so I was really hoping to use this weeks Class With Dave assignment to do something else, but I haven’t had the time what with working on my paper (I’ve gotten it "complete." Tomorrow is for editing and turning it…

4-2-07

Day 234 of 365 days. See, there were these two guys in a lunatic asylum…and one night…one night they decide they don’t like living in an asylum any more. They decide they’re going to escape! So like they get up on to the roof, and there, just across the narrow gap, they see the rooftops…

4-1-07

Day 233 of 365 days. Ok, I’ve definitely become a camera slob. Didn’t feel like using my DSLR yesterday or today so I fell back on the G4. I hate this picture. I’m not fond of yesterday’s. I’m just terribly aware of every technical inadequacy. Anyway, slept in today after spending all last night putting…