What a week
It’s been a busy week, I’ve been doing a lot of photography. On Monday I spent the day in the studio photographing still lives. I got to use the Canon EOS 10D. It’s pretty cool, from what I can tell the 300D is the same camera just in a plastic body.
On Tuesday some guy at the station tried to pick a fight with me, it was all fairly uneventful as he backed down but it pissed me off. I met Raelene at Uni and we spent the whole day in the studio shooting portraits of one another. We were using the MegaVision, a medium-format camera with a digital back that takes amazingly high quality images. On the way home I met a mad old drunk guy called Stewart who spent the journey complaining loudly about the poor standard of women on the train, much to my amusement. That evening I went to a meeting about the NAG site which managed to last two and a half hours. So I was out of the house from 6:45am to 11:00pm, yay!
I went into uni again on Wednesday (aren’t I good!) this time I went to photograph the hospitality department. I was photographing the kitchens which was quite good fun, the students and the chef made me feel really welcome and I got some good images out of the time there. When I got home I went to Chris’ to meet with Rob, Chris and Tony to talk about the conference we were going to on Thursday. We didn’t really decide much except that Rob was driving, I am Ian Duschlagge and smashing up caravans is great fun.
On Thursday the four of us went to the conference where we ate bacon sarnies, collected pens, decided Tony was unstable and randomly sacked one another until we went to the first talk of the day. The first talk was about Intergrating Wireless Technology into Business. During the talk Chris got bored and whipped out his PDA, eventually he passed it down to me and it had the third-perspective forum on the screen, he had connected to the presenters network and got out to the web from it. The presenter was a man from HP who talked about ways of reading email on the move and how “..with Windows XP Pro you can share an internet connection between multiple machines..” which of course can’t be done with earlier versions or other OS’s. So the first talk of the day quickly also became the last talk of the day and we headed off for some food.
On Friday I went to Uni again (four days in a week is a record for me!) as I had a class and I had to sit a slide test from last semesters module that I had missed the first time round due to snow. First of all I picked up the photos of the kitchens from Jessops and they had come out really well. Then off to the exam which was dull and crappy but I think I should have at least passed it. I then had to go to my Editorial Imaging class where we discussed what it was that made Britain British and how one could document it in photography.
On Saturday I had to get up early to get back from Jo’s to mine so that I could get a lift to the Kit Car Show in Dettling with Tony. It was a good day, unfortunately the weather was crap but there were lots of nice cars (as well as some complete dogs) and Jason Finn did a motorbike stunt show which was very impressive. Luego, the people that made Tony’s kit, had a stand there so I got to see what his car will look like when it’s finished and now I REALLY like it, VROOM indeed! I shot about five rolls of film and I took another sixty odd pictures on my digital, now I just have to hope they all come out okay.