This week
Thursday, November 2. 2006
Halloween wasn't quite (read: nearly) as good as it was in Chapel Hill. I didn't realize how good I had it. I dressed up as a lumberjack (10 euro shirt + hatched cut out of the cardboard from a package my parents had sent) and went into the city to a club/bar with Mikey. We met up with Kyle, John, Matt, and eventually Amanda. I had to get the 2am bus back 'cause I had a 9am test the next day. Remains to be seen how that one turned out.
I went to hear a photographer talk on Wednesday and realized that I had a philosophy about photography. It is weird to think that I've been doing something long enough to have thought about it and have legitimate opinions on the subject. I learned a new trick that my camera will do, as well, which makes it a LOT more counter-intuitive to operate. But it lets me focus and meter separately. So that's cool. Focus is on my right thumb, exposure adjustments are on my index finger, and my middle finger is the trigger (and exposure). I'll have to take a week to see if I can get used to it.
And I just played in photoshop for about an hour... no idea how to make the pictures of Northern Ireland look any better. They scenery is so amazing... they look fake anyway. I just don't have a clue how to make it any better.
I finally went to the climbing wall again today (time #2). I have to take a belay test, and they do it a different way... this is the 3rd method I've learned. They said I shouldn't take the test -- I should practice this week and take the test next week. Which amounted to me belaying this week anyway. I made it up the wall 1.75 times. I would have climbed more, but the girl teaching me to belay thought I had NO CLUE what was going on. By the second time I got to climb, I was tired (... it was 2 hours later). I got 3/4 of the way up, my arm did the funny "I'm done" twitch, and my grip was gone. Also, the harness was NOT comfy. But I got to see Isabel and climb with her, so that good. I believe I might even go back next week.
I went to hear a photographer talk on Wednesday and realized that I had a philosophy about photography. It is weird to think that I've been doing something long enough to have thought about it and have legitimate opinions on the subject. I learned a new trick that my camera will do, as well, which makes it a LOT more counter-intuitive to operate. But it lets me focus and meter separately. So that's cool. Focus is on my right thumb, exposure adjustments are on my index finger, and my middle finger is the trigger (and exposure). I'll have to take a week to see if I can get used to it.
And I just played in photoshop for about an hour... no idea how to make the pictures of Northern Ireland look any better. They scenery is so amazing... they look fake anyway. I just don't have a clue how to make it any better.
I finally went to the climbing wall again today (time #2). I have to take a belay test, and they do it a different way... this is the 3rd method I've learned. They said I shouldn't take the test -- I should practice this week and take the test next week. Which amounted to me belaying this week anyway. I made it up the wall 1.75 times. I would have climbed more, but the girl teaching me to belay thought I had NO CLUE what was going on. By the second time I got to climb, I was tired (... it was 2 hours later). I got 3/4 of the way up, my arm did the funny "I'm done" twitch, and my grip was gone. Also, the harness was NOT comfy. But I got to see Isabel and climb with her, so that good. I believe I might even go back next week.
