![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
From the Impala's Trunk website comes the official description of Supernatural ep 5x15 and title of 5x20.
( Here's what we're gonna see... )
( Here's what we're gonna see... )
Mar. 5th, 2010
Click, click - Photo class #2
Mar. 5th, 2010 08:41 amOk, so either the folks in my photography class hate me or they'll all want to be partnered with me on Saturday. :-)
I'm not trying to be a show-off, I swear! I just paid attention during class Wednesday night and took notes! It's not my fault I knew the answers!
See, class started off and the first thing Michael asked was, "What are the three things that determine exposure?" This was also the first thing he went over on Wednesday night and he even wrote it on the chalkboard. So I wrote it in my notebook. So when he asked, I answered - "Aperture, shutter speed and ISO." Everyone in class turned and looked at me and Michael smiled and rolled his eyes and said, " I know YOU know that."
Then later on he said something about, "If you don't have any kind of training in this," then he pointed at me and said, "I can tell you do." Now he doesn't even know that I'm a graphic designer, so I thought that was an interesting comment.
He's pretty enamored with my camera, asking me specific questions and having me pull up different menus to show the class. Which is great, because it's making me become more familiar with it, which is why I'm taking this class.
Oh, we also discovered that we both hate coffee but love hot chocolate. :-)
Anyway, it was another very informative night as we finished going through the five page glossary of terms. We spoke at length about ISO speeds and we each read our manuals and found out how to change the speeds on our cameras. My camera can go crazy high, up to 3200. The higher the ISO the easier it is to capture moving objects without any blur and it's also good in low light situations. But the trade off is the higher you go, the grainier your photos will be.
We learned about panning, where you follow a moving object, capturing it in focus while the background is blurred, giving the feel of motion. I'm hoping we get to practice that technique.
Another thing we talked at length about was shutter speed and we each discovered how to change it manually. Again, mine's got crazy high settings, all the way up to 1/4000. Normal setting is 1/125 to give you a reference. Again, the higher the setting the easier it is to capture moving objects. In relation to shutter speed we talked about rear-synching your flash. This is when the flash fires at the end of the shot instead of the beginning, giving you a better exposure in indoor and low-light settings.
Last thing we talked about was white balance. I was very interested in this topic. You know how when you go to a convention and take pics of the actors on stage and they always turn out with an awful yellow cast to them because of the terrible lighting in the ballroom? This is because the white balance setting is incorrect. We each got into our menus on our cameras and discovered how to do it manually, based on whether you're outside in sunlight or under florescent or tungsten lighting or even in the shade.
In relation to this we also talked briefly about using a white card. This is when you have someone hold up a white card or piece of paper and take a picture of that first, before shooting any other photos. This becomes your baseline. Next week he's going to show us on the computer how you use that baseline in Photoshop to automatically correct each photo's white balance. I'm really looking forward to that.
Tomorrow is our first day of shooting. We've got an early start at 7:30 am, so that we can work with the morning sunlight. We have assignments to read our manuals and be able to get into the aperture, shutter speed, ISO and white balance menus without looking things up. We're not allowed to take any photos on the Auto setting. Which is the purpose behind the class, to get away from just blindly pushing the button and make informed decisions to take better photos.
Wish me luck and I hope to have some pics to show you all on Sunday!
I'm not trying to be a show-off, I swear! I just paid attention during class Wednesday night and took notes! It's not my fault I knew the answers!
See, class started off and the first thing Michael asked was, "What are the three things that determine exposure?" This was also the first thing he went over on Wednesday night and he even wrote it on the chalkboard. So I wrote it in my notebook. So when he asked, I answered - "Aperture, shutter speed and ISO." Everyone in class turned and looked at me and Michael smiled and rolled his eyes and said, " I know YOU know that."
Then later on he said something about, "If you don't have any kind of training in this," then he pointed at me and said, "I can tell you do." Now he doesn't even know that I'm a graphic designer, so I thought that was an interesting comment.
He's pretty enamored with my camera, asking me specific questions and having me pull up different menus to show the class. Which is great, because it's making me become more familiar with it, which is why I'm taking this class.
Oh, we also discovered that we both hate coffee but love hot chocolate. :-)
Anyway, it was another very informative night as we finished going through the five page glossary of terms. We spoke at length about ISO speeds and we each read our manuals and found out how to change the speeds on our cameras. My camera can go crazy high, up to 3200. The higher the ISO the easier it is to capture moving objects without any blur and it's also good in low light situations. But the trade off is the higher you go, the grainier your photos will be.
We learned about panning, where you follow a moving object, capturing it in focus while the background is blurred, giving the feel of motion. I'm hoping we get to practice that technique.
Another thing we talked at length about was shutter speed and we each discovered how to change it manually. Again, mine's got crazy high settings, all the way up to 1/4000. Normal setting is 1/125 to give you a reference. Again, the higher the setting the easier it is to capture moving objects. In relation to shutter speed we talked about rear-synching your flash. This is when the flash fires at the end of the shot instead of the beginning, giving you a better exposure in indoor and low-light settings.
Last thing we talked about was white balance. I was very interested in this topic. You know how when you go to a convention and take pics of the actors on stage and they always turn out with an awful yellow cast to them because of the terrible lighting in the ballroom? This is because the white balance setting is incorrect. We each got into our menus on our cameras and discovered how to do it manually, based on whether you're outside in sunlight or under florescent or tungsten lighting or even in the shade.
In relation to this we also talked briefly about using a white card. This is when you have someone hold up a white card or piece of paper and take a picture of that first, before shooting any other photos. This becomes your baseline. Next week he's going to show us on the computer how you use that baseline in Photoshop to automatically correct each photo's white balance. I'm really looking forward to that.
Tomorrow is our first day of shooting. We've got an early start at 7:30 am, so that we can work with the morning sunlight. We have assignments to read our manuals and be able to get into the aperture, shutter speed, ISO and white balance menus without looking things up. We're not allowed to take any photos on the Auto setting. Which is the purpose behind the class, to get away from just blindly pushing the button and make informed decisions to take better photos.
Wish me luck and I hope to have some pics to show you all on Sunday!
Tell me this isn't true
Mar. 5th, 2010 07:31 pmOk, I don't care if this is Supernatural's big 100th episode or not, if this IMDB listing (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1594854/) is correct, (and I'm praying it's wrong, like IMDB has been in the past) with who two of the guest stars are going to be, there is NO way in HELL I'm watching. Those of you who know me will understand why.
Thank you, Kripke, for destroying an episode I was really looking forward to.
Thank you, Kripke, for destroying an episode I was really looking forward to.
