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- I am incapable of posting in any way that isn't list form lately.
- The weekend's worth of shooting:
[Erie Choir/Kingsbury Manx @ the Cradle] 01.09.09, Chapel Hill, NC. The Cradle was a poorly lit pit on Friday night, but I'm pretty proud that I figured out how to get anything out of that light, and of this one in particular.
[Geer Cemetery] Durham, NC. Geer Cemetery was one of the earliest African American cemeteries in the Triangle; it hasn't been used for burial since 1944 and it hasn't been maintained in almost as long. It's a small overgrown lot set between three residential streets and a commercial vehicle parking lot in Durham, and it's sad, strange, eerie, and very beautiful.
[The New Familiars @ the Blind Tiger] 01.10.09, Greensboro, NC. My experiment at this show was to dump my ISO down to 800 (I tend to default to concert shooting at 1600) and then set the shutter speed -- my preferred concert-shooting-setting is to shoot in shutter priority -- a step or two slower than what I was absolutely comfortable with, and just suck it up and deal. The slower the shutter the better the light, of course, and while there was a lot of motion blur in what I got, I also got some great color and some great composition. Next up: same experiment, pit of doom that is the lighting at the Local 506. I am not tackling aperture priority until I get some faster glass.
Every time I go out to shoot with the new camera, I am trying to push myself a little harder. Still trying to get clean shots without overexposing in the 506, still trying to get color and form in the Cradle when someone decides that it's not worth using anything but the green gels for whatever reason, blah blah blah. Goals are good, right? Right. - Speaking of photography: I want to use my days-i-am-in-the-office lunch breaks to take pictures with the point-and-click this week. I work on the main campus drag of a small college town; what do you guys want to see? As long as I can walk to it and back -- so, like, the Dean Dome is out -- during my hour lunch, it's fair game. Go nuts.
I'm also still looking for a photo-a-day project/theme/whatever for February, although I think I am leaning towards one I found randomly searching on Flickr, since February is a short month: the alphabet. One letter a day. (I am going to save taking pictures of my shoes for a month like May,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gorgeous_ninny, where I will have a lot more variety in the shoes I wear because good weather and cute sandals and flip-flops, which I own in much more variety than I own winter shoes.) - I haven't followed the Ravens intensely since they last won the Super Bowl -- living in Chicago meant Bears, and living down here means Panthers -- but I've watched at least part of both their playoff games this year and I keep looking like this :D :D :D when they win. At least one of Baltimore's pro franchises does something good sometimes, right? Even if the Steelers are going to put a hurting on them this upcoming weekend.
- Yesterday I listened to Justin Townes Earle and the Rolling Stones all day. Today I am listening to Justin's daddy and downloading Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers' Anthology, and designing database specs. Sometimes I actually use my Master's degree for my job, and it's really fucking nice when it happens.
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