vendredi, août 24, 2007 Putting pen to paper and biting a knuckle      Continuing on with the exploration of my hand-me-down camera, I strangely managed to coax a reluctant flash into working properly again. Dominic had it for two full days and was unable to make it "talk" to his brand new Canon 400D, but after a few minutes of sweet talking, hard presses and soft caresses, the no-name 3rd party brand flash is working perfectly with my Canon 300D, and all is well in the world!Meaning to get a kick-ass, store-all camera bag from Cathay Photo (or somewhere), I took back the telephoto lens from Dominic, and was all prepared to head out tomorrow with EVERYTHING, so that I could get a bag which would fit everything. But lo and behold, the wonderful, fantastic, gorgeously generous person called Lijie contacted me via MSN to answer my photography question, which resulted in an impromptu one hour lesson on APERTURES, and ended with me making plans to borrow one of his lenses and a bag from him. It was midway through my third "OMG my head is going to explode" feeling that I decided that pen and paper was still the way to go, which resulted in me scribbling furiously as Lijie merrily typed away for this course on his computer at home. Of course, this resulted in a massively long MSN chat session which I forgot to save (stupid! stupid! stupid!) but now I know about Primes, Chromatic Abberations, and the fact that I am still amused by the fact that Lijie and I can communicate with programming shortforms like "bokeh!=f-stop". (It wasn't that exactly, but the programming sign was!) I'm not sure if I'll ever get to the point where I'm turning my camera to manual (I probably will get there just to challenge myself), but for now, I'm not above just setting the camera to photograph at "AUTO" and taking it from there. I'm just excited about the process of acquisition, experimentation and hobbying. Libellés : personal, photography [Putting pen to paper and biting a knuckle] |
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