On the way home from Jereme’s house last night I stopped off at the I-4 pedestrian bridge in Lake Mary to take some pictures.
You can’t park right next to the bridge so I used my new deck to skate down there. Pretty fun deck I realized, super fast. It’s a little strange trying to book it on a board while holding a tripod and camera bag and water and a book but I survived.
Pictures turned out significantly crappy though. But I’m happy that I did it. Felt good to do something I wanted to do, and be creative. Even if what I made wasn’t that good. It’ll get better. I think early morning would be a cool time to do some shots of Lake Monroe, with fog and such.
So The Collective graciously invited me to photograph their live performance on WPRK 91.5 Rollins College Radio. The station is housed on the basement of the Mills building, whatever that means. It was a really cool experience. Pictures turned out OK. I am not the best judge of what pictures other people will like. I think some of them are pretty nice though. Unfortunately Scary Mary, a previous DJ was not there. Still fun though.
Recently I’ve been trying to take more pictures. I really like having a dSLR. It’s so much fun to actually have some control over how a picture turns out. At the same time I don’t spend a cent on developing film. I average about 400 pictures every time I take my camera somewhere. 92% of those are terrible and not worth looking at. But I think that percentage will keep going down.
I’ve been kind of intimidated by the idea of buying another lens. There are so many different things to consider. Especially difficult for me since I know so little about what would help me take better pictures. Vi mentioned getting a lens with a bigger aperture. I didn’t even know what that was at the time, but now that I’ve been doing some checking I think that is exactly what I will do. Canon 50mm f/1.4. Low light, selective focus, bang!
On another note, I joined an open source project. It’s a fork of activeCollab 0.71. I’m excited!
