Goofing

Small update. Basically just want to throw something out there for the fun of it.

I made this image in roughly 10 minutes over the series of about 8 attempts. By far this is not the final image. I definately wouldn't figure this image to be the best possible outcome.

The streaks are from a (strangely enough) Nikon brand flashlight. I picked up the flash at a local journalism contest. The exposure is pretty long at about 25 seconds. Yes you heard me correctly. Long exposures are great ways to make some interesting art.

From a journalism perspective I guess this is a rather far stretch, but when it comes to things like photo illustrations there are no real boundaries.

The aperture is also pretty up there at F/22. This gave me the ability to grab a very long exposure along with a very nice deep focus so that I wasn't ending up having the background in focus and not the guitar. As long as I got close to the guitar's face, I would have acurate crispness.

I like shooting things like this sometimes just to mix things up. It is suprising how much stuff I use that I picked up from random places. I really like playing with photography to gather up a wealth of knowlege. That's what knowing a trade is all about. Learning it forever. You can't pick everything up just by taking classes. I know definately that I learned more from experience than I did from reading some chapters in a book. It's important to experiment with your equipment to gain your smarts. LEARNING IS GOOD!

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On a totally unrelated note, I recently got a job for this summer with a wedding photography company. They are pretty up-scale and I hope I can do my job well enough to stay there for a while. I just want to do work with people that I'll feel happy with, while also making money of course.

Wedding photography isn't too far off from newspaper photojournalism. A lot of wedding photography is documentary work not really far from the standard journalism work. Hopefully I'll either find work that I enjoy greatly or I'll find out that I really need a job at a paper. I guess we'll find out!

Sadly I can't post images from my work there because they own my images and so I don't get copies. What I will try to do is redo some of the stuff that I learn that is interesting along with trying to take some portraits. Summer is coming up and I really hope that I can get some cool portraits churned out when the weather warms up. Until then I'll still work on things to put up here.