When I set my mind to something, it's virtually impossible to get me to change it. And I'm more determined than ever to make this dance photography thing work.
Monday: Because it was Easter Monday, the school was almost completely deserted. I devoted the day to doing things that were on my list, but that hadn't been done yet.
Tuesday: We handed in our independent projects, and discussed what we'd learned with Drew and each other. When I presented my findings about Photoshop CS6, I pointed out that according to my research, I won't be able to run the Extended version on my laptop because it will require 512MB of video RAM--my computer only has 128MB of VRAM. When I brought that up, Drew (who always has his iPhone with him) called Terra Consultants and asked them if it's possible to put more VRAM in my (Late '07) MacBook Pro. The answer: no. However, the only things that the Extended version of Photoshop has that the non-Extended version doesn't are the ability to do 3D images and work with video. I'm not that interested in 3D, and if I want to do video I'll get Final Cut Pro (don't have enough VRAM for that either).
Rod switched his classes to Friday, so I had the rest of the day to do whatever I wanted. I devoted part of the afternoon to emailing NSCAD's admissions and enrolment services directer, as I wanted to transfer more credits. I also asked about how intersession works--turns out, I'll be spending next summer in Halifax, as intersession is four months. I've also lost eight credits (all from FVA) because they don't accept anything below B-minus. However, because I haven't finished this semester yet and therefore won't have marks for the courses that I'm currently taking for another month or so, once my final transcript is available, I can have NBCCD's registrar send a copy to the Admissions office at NSCAD and hopefully I'll be able to pick up a few more credits. There is hope.
Wednesday: We discussed where we were in our independent projects, and Drew suggested that I look at lenses as well.
Thursday: After wanting to go since FVA year but never being able to follow through due to various reasons, I finally bought a ticket to the Fashion Design Studio's annual fashion show.
I'd finally exported reworked versions of the videos that I'd been working on, so Peter and my classmates were able to critique the current versions. I'm definitely getting closer to perfection. Take that, Harper!
Friday: For the first time since last year, I had to roll out of bed early on a Friday. But I didn't mind: I got to photograph dancers that afternoon!
I spent the morning class putting the final touches on the video that I'm working on for Still to Motion (a five-minute documentary about the family house and the surrounding area). Our final assignment will be to put together a slide-show of our work. Later that morning, I signed out one of the studio's D7000's. I considered signing out a camera from the school store, but I didn't know anything about how those cameras performed in low-light situations, whereas I have experience using a D7000 in low light.
After class, Peter, Rod, some of the first-years and I went to the Ballet Jörgen photo session. I couldn't have been happier snapping photos of the dancers, and I shot over five hundred photos. Sometimes I just watched, admiring the dancers' technique. This is what I'm meant to do. I plan to post some of the photos on my website, but I can't yet. Although the company is cool with having photos of the dancers out there, they want to be able to control that content and know how the dancers and the company as a whole are being portrayed in the media. As a result, if you want to use your images of the company in any sort of media, those photos have to be submitted to the company's media guy. You can submit up to twenty. After we got back, I downloaded my images, returned the camera and started sifting through the photos.
Here's the trailer for the ballet:
That evening, WhiteFeather posted a link to a workshop at the Banff Centre on my Facebook timeline. A performance photography workshop at the Banff Centre. I immediately checked it out. It's this July, and it sounds like the perfect thing for an aspiring dance photographer like me. If I do it, it'll be a. my first workshop outside of New Brunswick, b. my first time in a province further west than Ontario, c. my first time flying alone, and d. my first time celebrating my birthday outside of New Brunswick (I'll have splurge on a small cake or a latte). I checked it out, and they have financial aid available, which is very important. I'll scour the website a bit more, and then I'll make my decision--which will have to be soon. Two words: PLANE TICKETS!
Saturday: This week's opera was La Traviata. I always forget that one of the pieces that the Bangor Symphony introduced me to was a piece from that opera: Di Madride noi siam mattadori. Back in May '04, I taped a radio broadcast of a concert that they'd performed a month prior. That broadcast was the first time I'd heard the orchestra since I was five, and Di Madride was on the program. I still have that tape, and I love whirling around the room as fast as I can go at the end--not without a few good-natured yells at the BSO to play it a little bit slower--and shuffling to the violin part at one minute, ten seconds. It comes around again at two minutes, five seconds. I always think of the BSO when I hear that piece.
I spent part of the afternoon looking for pieces for my video for Peter's class. That task got a lot simpler when I discovered the search feature on the site that I'm using. :-) Finally I was able to weed out all the dubstep tracks.
That evening, I started printing my portfolio. I printed until the studio's photo printer told me that there was a clogged nozzle. As I have no idea how to fix it, I left a note on the printer.
I topped off the evening with going through my Ballet Jörgen shots.
Sunday: After skyping with my parents this morning, I spent most of the afternoon working on the videos for my independent-study project, adding music to existing vids and putting together the final video. I'm unbelievably happy with how the project has turned out.
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Sunday, April 15, 2012
Sunday, April 1, 2012
it's about time I heard the Met play an encore
As of this past Monday, there is exactly ONE MONTH between the Class of '12 and life post-NBCCD. As someone who is fiercely loyal to the college and doubly so to the photo studio, I'm going to miss this place.
Monday: All we had to do was meet with Linda. However, I totally forgot and showed up at the college just before one--and my meeting wasn't until 2:40. I spent the next almost-two hours getting other homework done. Linda critiqued what I'd done so far for Imagery, and suggested what sort of direction I could take the project.
Tuesday: I started work on my Photoshop independent-study project. Photoshop CS6 is going to be yet another huge step forward/learning curve.
Still to Motion was devoted to getting all of us more or less on the same track. I finally added the audio tracks to my video, which is about the history of the family home and the surrounding area. I just have to add a title and the credits.
Wednesday: This week we finally talked about how to price our work. Although I fantasized about a clear answer from Karen, I realize that that's unrealistic, as you have to take the cost of your materials, frames, etc., into consideration. One her most straightforward tips was to look at what other people in the surrounding area are charging, and use that as a guide. Karen also included a couple of websites, and I jotted down the URLs in my notebook.
We presented our most recent research projects. For me, that meant talking about the results that I got with the Speedotrons and gushing about the Einsteins. We also talked about what we wanted to do next. When I chose my current project, I debated between researching affordable and expandable backup systems and professional/near-pro DSLRs. I decided that I could probably figure out backup stuff on my own pretty well--it's choosing a new camera that I need help with. The more advanced I've become, the more important choosing the right camera to fit my needs has become to me. I'm not going to go to a camera store, look at the cameras, point and say, "I want that one." I need to research the different brands (since I started thinking about getting a new camera, I've only been considering Nikon and Canon--kind of like only considering Stradivarius and Guarnieri, if those guys had made different levels of instruments for everyone from beginner to the best in the world), find out which cameras are at the level that I'm considering and look into what features each camera has. Like my current violin, my next camera will be the first DSLR that I will choose on my own. When I chose my violin in the summer of '01, my parents named a price range and I tried three different fiddles--and as many bows--in that range. However, this time I have a lot of bells and whistles to consider, and I need to know what each camera has. Therefore, this topic wins. Originally, the project was to be two weeks long (which would mean that it would be due on the eleventh), but Drew gave us the option of taking another week, meaning that it'd be due on the eighteenth. I decided to do an extra week, as I feel I could use it.
Thursday: We talked about where we are in our projects, and I presented the two videos that I've made so far. I found a sequencing glitch in one of the videos, which is stop-motion (a couple of the photos were out of place--I thought that I'd fixed all the problems in that department). Peter and my classmates critiqued the videos, corrected a couple of facts, and suggested better ways in which to do said videos. Peter also talked about a ballet performance that will be happening at the Playhouse on the thirteenth. The company, Ballet Jörgen (YOR-gen--with a hard G), is doing a masterclass before the performance, and has invited people to take photos. I believe they'll also be talking about dance photography, which would be great for me.
As Peter was coming down with a cold, he cancelled everything in the afternoon and went home. He planned to be in the next day, though. As usual, I devoted the afternoon to homework.
That day, the 2012-2013 federal budget came out--and it's a real slap in the face for us young folks. Katimivik (which gets young people out in Canadian communities, helping out--and they do it purely as volunteer work) is kaput, and the retirement age will be raised to sixty-seven (from sixty-five) in the next ten years, forcing older people to stay in the workforce longer and denying jobs to people my age because those jobs are taken by those older folks--and those are just two things. The CBC will also have it's budget slashed by $115 million over the next three years, which will reduce the quality of the programming (which is very high). I can understand why someone like Harper would want to cut funding to an institution like the CBC: freedom of the press--which is guaranteed under section 2. (b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms--is a scary thing to a leader who wants to exert full control over the country, get things done their way and not have anyone criticize them, but it still infuriates me. I love the CBC (and PBS over in the States)--in fact, I was listening to CBC Music's Orchestral channel on iTunes this afternoon--and I don't want the quality of their programming to be affected in any way. I cannot stress how important institutions like CBC and PBS are to a country. Yay for culture and freedom of the press! By the way, note that on the budget web page the tag line is "jobs growth and long-term prosperity." That statement couldn't be more untrue if the Tories tried.
As usual, Helen and I skyped that evening, and we talked about some of my projects. We won't skype again until the nineteenth, as Helen will be away and/or busy for the next couple of weeks. She thought about waiting until after I'm done school, but during finals I crave things in my life that allow me to relax, so we agreed on that date.
Friday: I spent a couple of hours at the UNB Art Centre, taking photos of, and notes on the current show. I'm reviewing it for the second show review that I have to write for Gallery as a Market Place. The day before, I called the Centre and asked for permission to take photos there to use as visual notes while writing the review. They were totally fine with it as long as the photos were just for my use--otherwise they'd have to get approval from the artists--Monica Lacey and Brody LeBlanc (who are Class of '11 NBCCD grads).
That afternoon, I fired a bunch of questions at Peter: approaching NSCAD with my research on the credits that I'd found (NSCAD originally awarded me fifty-four credits, and I wanted to get as close to the seventy-five-credit mark as possible), when he's going to talk about the grad show and how many pieces to put in the hard-copy portfolio that I have to do for his class.
Saturday: As usual, I devoted the day to homework. I got a really good start on the gallery review. By "really good", I mean that I banged out two hundred and eighty-six words. Five hundred and fourteen more to go! I did homework for Imagery, and I started putting together a list of cameras to consider.
This week the Met performed L'Elisir d'Amore--and I heard the orchestra and one of the singers, Juan Diago Flórez, play an encore for the first time. After they played Una furtiva lagrima, the audience went nuts, applauding for a long time, quieting down--and then starting up again, shouting, "BRAVO!" and, although I didn't catch it, "ENCORE!" So the Met played the aria again. And because I hadn't heard the calls for an encore, I couldn't believe my ears: they were playing it again? Really? But after that performance, I distinctly heard the shouts for an encore. This time, the Met ignored those requests and went on with the rest of the opera.
Sadly, this version isn't with the Met:
Sunday: Today, I didn't get over to the college until around four--I'm usually there around two. I started looking at reviews of cameras, and I knocked a few off the list because this time around, I'm not getting an entry-level cam. After two years at NBCCD, I'm itching to play with the big boys.
Monday: All we had to do was meet with Linda. However, I totally forgot and showed up at the college just before one--and my meeting wasn't until 2:40. I spent the next almost-two hours getting other homework done. Linda critiqued what I'd done so far for Imagery, and suggested what sort of direction I could take the project.
Tuesday: I started work on my Photoshop independent-study project. Photoshop CS6 is going to be yet another huge step forward/learning curve.
Still to Motion was devoted to getting all of us more or less on the same track. I finally added the audio tracks to my video, which is about the history of the family home and the surrounding area. I just have to add a title and the credits.
Wednesday: This week we finally talked about how to price our work. Although I fantasized about a clear answer from Karen, I realize that that's unrealistic, as you have to take the cost of your materials, frames, etc., into consideration. One her most straightforward tips was to look at what other people in the surrounding area are charging, and use that as a guide. Karen also included a couple of websites, and I jotted down the URLs in my notebook.
We presented our most recent research projects. For me, that meant talking about the results that I got with the Speedotrons and gushing about the Einsteins. We also talked about what we wanted to do next. When I chose my current project, I debated between researching affordable and expandable backup systems and professional/near-pro DSLRs. I decided that I could probably figure out backup stuff on my own pretty well--it's choosing a new camera that I need help with. The more advanced I've become, the more important choosing the right camera to fit my needs has become to me. I'm not going to go to a camera store, look at the cameras, point and say, "I want that one." I need to research the different brands (since I started thinking about getting a new camera, I've only been considering Nikon and Canon--kind of like only considering Stradivarius and Guarnieri, if those guys had made different levels of instruments for everyone from beginner to the best in the world), find out which cameras are at the level that I'm considering and look into what features each camera has. Like my current violin, my next camera will be the first DSLR that I will choose on my own. When I chose my violin in the summer of '01, my parents named a price range and I tried three different fiddles--and as many bows--in that range. However, this time I have a lot of bells and whistles to consider, and I need to know what each camera has. Therefore, this topic wins. Originally, the project was to be two weeks long (which would mean that it would be due on the eleventh), but Drew gave us the option of taking another week, meaning that it'd be due on the eighteenth. I decided to do an extra week, as I feel I could use it.
Thursday: We talked about where we are in our projects, and I presented the two videos that I've made so far. I found a sequencing glitch in one of the videos, which is stop-motion (a couple of the photos were out of place--I thought that I'd fixed all the problems in that department). Peter and my classmates critiqued the videos, corrected a couple of facts, and suggested better ways in which to do said videos. Peter also talked about a ballet performance that will be happening at the Playhouse on the thirteenth. The company, Ballet Jörgen (YOR-gen--with a hard G), is doing a masterclass before the performance, and has invited people to take photos. I believe they'll also be talking about dance photography, which would be great for me.
As Peter was coming down with a cold, he cancelled everything in the afternoon and went home. He planned to be in the next day, though. As usual, I devoted the afternoon to homework.
That day, the 2012-2013 federal budget came out--and it's a real slap in the face for us young folks. Katimivik (which gets young people out in Canadian communities, helping out--and they do it purely as volunteer work) is kaput, and the retirement age will be raised to sixty-seven (from sixty-five) in the next ten years, forcing older people to stay in the workforce longer and denying jobs to people my age because those jobs are taken by those older folks--and those are just two things. The CBC will also have it's budget slashed by $115 million over the next three years, which will reduce the quality of the programming (which is very high). I can understand why someone like Harper would want to cut funding to an institution like the CBC: freedom of the press--which is guaranteed under section 2. (b) of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms--is a scary thing to a leader who wants to exert full control over the country, get things done their way and not have anyone criticize them, but it still infuriates me. I love the CBC (and PBS over in the States)--in fact, I was listening to CBC Music's Orchestral channel on iTunes this afternoon--and I don't want the quality of their programming to be affected in any way. I cannot stress how important institutions like CBC and PBS are to a country. Yay for culture and freedom of the press! By the way, note that on the budget web page the tag line is "jobs growth and long-term prosperity." That statement couldn't be more untrue if the Tories tried.
As usual, Helen and I skyped that evening, and we talked about some of my projects. We won't skype again until the nineteenth, as Helen will be away and/or busy for the next couple of weeks. She thought about waiting until after I'm done school, but during finals I crave things in my life that allow me to relax, so we agreed on that date.
Friday: I spent a couple of hours at the UNB Art Centre, taking photos of, and notes on the current show. I'm reviewing it for the second show review that I have to write for Gallery as a Market Place. The day before, I called the Centre and asked for permission to take photos there to use as visual notes while writing the review. They were totally fine with it as long as the photos were just for my use--otherwise they'd have to get approval from the artists--Monica Lacey and Brody LeBlanc (who are Class of '11 NBCCD grads).
That afternoon, I fired a bunch of questions at Peter: approaching NSCAD with my research on the credits that I'd found (NSCAD originally awarded me fifty-four credits, and I wanted to get as close to the seventy-five-credit mark as possible), when he's going to talk about the grad show and how many pieces to put in the hard-copy portfolio that I have to do for his class.
Saturday: As usual, I devoted the day to homework. I got a really good start on the gallery review. By "really good", I mean that I banged out two hundred and eighty-six words. Five hundred and fourteen more to go! I did homework for Imagery, and I started putting together a list of cameras to consider.
This week the Met performed L'Elisir d'Amore--and I heard the orchestra and one of the singers, Juan Diago Flórez, play an encore for the first time. After they played Una furtiva lagrima, the audience went nuts, applauding for a long time, quieting down--and then starting up again, shouting, "BRAVO!" and, although I didn't catch it, "ENCORE!" So the Met played the aria again. And because I hadn't heard the calls for an encore, I couldn't believe my ears: they were playing it again? Really? But after that performance, I distinctly heard the shouts for an encore. This time, the Met ignored those requests and went on with the rest of the opera.
Sadly, this version isn't with the Met:
Sunday: Today, I didn't get over to the college until around four--I'm usually there around two. I started looking at reviews of cameras, and I knocked a few off the list because this time around, I'm not getting an entry-level cam. After two years at NBCCD, I'm itching to play with the big boys.
Monday, March 26, 2012
you know you're a photographer when... high-speed flashes are the way to your heart
I have another surprise this week! But you'll have to wait until the end to read about it.
Monday: Imagery was mostly taken up with presentations. As I wrote an essay instead of doing an oral presentation, I just had hand it in. Afterward, I got started on my final project for that course.
I then shot photos for the first part of my project for Peter's class, as that part of the video is stop-motion.
That night was byelection night in Toronto-Danforth, which was Jack Layton's riding.
Tuesday: As usual, I checked the news first thing that morning: "Jack Layton’s former riding will remain NDP orange after rookie candidate Craig Scott easily won Monday’s byelection [...]." 'Nuff said. GO NDP!
The End is officially in sight, and this week Drew gave us our final Photoshop assignments. We're doing independent-study projects, and almost immediately I decided to do mine on Photoshop CS5 (the most recent release) and CS6 (which is due out soon--and Adobe employees and other Photoshop geeks are already talking about the features and improvements that it'll have). As I'm running CS4, I'll use the copy of CS5 that's on one of the computers in the Photo Studio. I'm going to turn on the "What's New in CS5" feature and try out the things that it highlights.
Wednesday: That day was "the warmest March day in recorded history for many of Canada's major cities, [and] it was also warmer than any April day at St. John, New Brunswick." In F'ton, the highest temperature was close to 30˚C/86˚F, and as an environmentalist, warning bells were going off in my head loud enough to drown out all three of my favourite orchestras. It should not be +27˚C/80˚F in March. If that isn't proof that global warming is here (and not some thing that won't rear it's head for another generation or two), I don't know what is. Okay, I'll get off my soapbox.
In Gallery as a Market Place, we discussed how the opening went down, and things that could be improved for next time. I won't say anything more, as Karen swore us to secrecy on some of the things that we covered.
Thursday: That day (another record-setting hot one), we didn't have class. I used the time to get homework done.
Because I've never transferred credits, I talked with Peter about getting more credits transferred from NBCCD to NSCAD. NSCAD will accept up to seventy-five of my credits, and when they accepted me the university awarded me fifty-four credits. Peter suggested that I go through the NSCAD calendar and look for courses that sound similar to ones that I've taken at the craft college, and then present that research to NSCAD.
Later that afternoon, I signed out the college's new Einstein flashes, as the second part of my latest research project was to work with them. To quote my final report for that project, "I was so mind-blown by what I was seeing on my camera's LCD screen that at one point I came close to tears." I was also madly in love with them--I still am, in fact. As you can see in the photo, most of the water was on the table by the time I was done. Because those flashes can freeze motion due to the speed of the flash (which goes as low as 1/3,000 of a second), I'm definitely getting a few if I go into dance photography.
Friday: On Thursday, I decided that enough was enough: as I wanted to include some of my portraiture on my website, I needed to have my models sign release forms. So on Friday I went over to Backstreet Records. Eric wasn't in that day, but would be on Saturday. However, I did get one of the forms signed (Peter, in case you're wondering).
That evening, Helen and I had our first chat in several weeks. We talked about the ins and outs of transferring credits, and about some of the things that I've been creating at the school.
Saturday: That day was one of NBCCD's open houses, which they do a couple times a year. I wasn't officially a part of it, but I spent the day studying in the studio. On my way over, I stopped by Backstreet Records again and Eric signed a release form. When I got to school, I got the last form signed by Erin, who's one of my classmates.
I spent a sizable chunk of the afternoon going through NSCAD's academic calendar, looking for courses that could correspond to ones that I've taken at NBCCD. I came up with fifteen more credits, for a total of sixty-nine. I'll go over it again, as I'd like to get credit for at least one of my Photoshop courses and Imagery: Sources and Development, but sixty-nine is still really good.
Throughout the evening, I kept at least one eye on the NDP leadership convention as I worked on my homework, and was thrilled beyond belief when they announced that Thomas Mucair would be the next leader of the party. For the last month or two, Mucair has been the most popular (and best-known) of the candidates, so I'm not surprised that he won. A few months ago he visited UNB, and when I read the (front-page) article in The Brunswickan, I got really excited about him. His views almost perfectly mirrored mine--and this is coming from a woman who is a lot further left than the NDP. If I were a member of the federal party--I am considering joining both the provincial and the federal NDP at some point--I would've voted for him.
Sunday: I didn't get off my butt and over to the college until around three, but once there, I finished up stuff that needed to be finished and proofread what needed to be proofread. I also skyped with Mom: somehow, she'd missed that little fact that I love doing portraiture. And we went 'round and 'round and 'round about the fact that I'm into dance photography, and want to do it professionally. Thankfully, I realize that it won't be easy getting started--but I'm tough, and I won't take "no" for an answer. And I'm not one of those people who takes the easy route and becomes a teacher or something and only goes into art later in life (if at all), which has been the case with some people that Mom has known or taught. When I want to do something, I'll find a way to make it happen, even if making it happen involves taking a long, sometimes tedious, route. I don't expect to do dance photography right away. And then we went 'round and 'round and 'round about NSCAD and finding a place to live.
And now for that surprise: as of Sunday afternoon, my website is LIVE! And it's looking gorgeous. Go check it out if you haven't.
Monday: Imagery was mostly taken up with presentations. As I wrote an essay instead of doing an oral presentation, I just had hand it in. Afterward, I got started on my final project for that course.
I then shot photos for the first part of my project for Peter's class, as that part of the video is stop-motion.
That night was byelection night in Toronto-Danforth, which was Jack Layton's riding.
Tuesday: As usual, I checked the news first thing that morning: "Jack Layton’s former riding will remain NDP orange after rookie candidate Craig Scott easily won Monday’s byelection [...]." 'Nuff said. GO NDP!
The End is officially in sight, and this week Drew gave us our final Photoshop assignments. We're doing independent-study projects, and almost immediately I decided to do mine on Photoshop CS5 (the most recent release) and CS6 (which is due out soon--and Adobe employees and other Photoshop geeks are already talking about the features and improvements that it'll have). As I'm running CS4, I'll use the copy of CS5 that's on one of the computers in the Photo Studio. I'm going to turn on the "What's New in CS5" feature and try out the things that it highlights.
Wednesday: That day was "the warmest March day in recorded history for many of Canada's major cities, [and] it was also warmer than any April day at St. John, New Brunswick." In F'ton, the highest temperature was close to 30˚C/86˚F, and as an environmentalist, warning bells were going off in my head loud enough to drown out all three of my favourite orchestras. It should not be +27˚C/80˚F in March. If that isn't proof that global warming is here (and not some thing that won't rear it's head for another generation or two), I don't know what is. Okay, I'll get off my soapbox.
In Gallery as a Market Place, we discussed how the opening went down, and things that could be improved for next time. I won't say anything more, as Karen swore us to secrecy on some of the things that we covered.
Thursday: That day (another record-setting hot one), we didn't have class. I used the time to get homework done.
Because I've never transferred credits, I talked with Peter about getting more credits transferred from NBCCD to NSCAD. NSCAD will accept up to seventy-five of my credits, and when they accepted me the university awarded me fifty-four credits. Peter suggested that I go through the NSCAD calendar and look for courses that sound similar to ones that I've taken at the craft college, and then present that research to NSCAD.
Later that afternoon, I signed out the college's new Einstein flashes, as the second part of my latest research project was to work with them. To quote my final report for that project, "I was so mind-blown by what I was seeing on my camera's LCD screen that at one point I came close to tears." I was also madly in love with them--I still am, in fact. As you can see in the photo, most of the water was on the table by the time I was done. Because those flashes can freeze motion due to the speed of the flash (which goes as low as 1/3,000 of a second), I'm definitely getting a few if I go into dance photography.
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| I lightened the photo, as it was a bit dark (need. more. powerful. camera.) and boosted the contrast and clarity (to make the glass and droplets look more defined). Check out the droplet exploding on the table! |
Friday: On Thursday, I decided that enough was enough: as I wanted to include some of my portraiture on my website, I needed to have my models sign release forms. So on Friday I went over to Backstreet Records. Eric wasn't in that day, but would be on Saturday. However, I did get one of the forms signed (Peter, in case you're wondering).
That evening, Helen and I had our first chat in several weeks. We talked about the ins and outs of transferring credits, and about some of the things that I've been creating at the school.
Saturday: That day was one of NBCCD's open houses, which they do a couple times a year. I wasn't officially a part of it, but I spent the day studying in the studio. On my way over, I stopped by Backstreet Records again and Eric signed a release form. When I got to school, I got the last form signed by Erin, who's one of my classmates.
I spent a sizable chunk of the afternoon going through NSCAD's academic calendar, looking for courses that could correspond to ones that I've taken at NBCCD. I came up with fifteen more credits, for a total of sixty-nine. I'll go over it again, as I'd like to get credit for at least one of my Photoshop courses and Imagery: Sources and Development, but sixty-nine is still really good.
Throughout the evening, I kept at least one eye on the NDP leadership convention as I worked on my homework, and was thrilled beyond belief when they announced that Thomas Mucair would be the next leader of the party. For the last month or two, Mucair has been the most popular (and best-known) of the candidates, so I'm not surprised that he won. A few months ago he visited UNB, and when I read the (front-page) article in The Brunswickan, I got really excited about him. His views almost perfectly mirrored mine--and this is coming from a woman who is a lot further left than the NDP. If I were a member of the federal party--I am considering joining both the provincial and the federal NDP at some point--I would've voted for him.
Sunday: I didn't get off my butt and over to the college until around three, but once there, I finished up stuff that needed to be finished and proofread what needed to be proofread. I also skyped with Mom: somehow, she'd missed that little fact that I love doing portraiture. And we went 'round and 'round and 'round about the fact that I'm into dance photography, and want to do it professionally. Thankfully, I realize that it won't be easy getting started--but I'm tough, and I won't take "no" for an answer. And I'm not one of those people who takes the easy route and becomes a teacher or something and only goes into art later in life (if at all), which has been the case with some people that Mom has known or taught. When I want to do something, I'll find a way to make it happen, even if making it happen involves taking a long, sometimes tedious, route. I don't expect to do dance photography right away. And then we went 'round and 'round and 'round about NSCAD and finding a place to live.
And now for that surprise: as of Sunday afternoon, my website is LIVE! And it's looking gorgeous. Go check it out if you haven't.
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