I want to buy another camera bag. The one we have now fits everything from soup to nuts and is great when you want to carry everything. But it looks, well, like a camera bag and it’s very loose and swings about when I have to bend over repeatedly to pick up Josie and such, banging Josie or the camera on something. I’m pretty clutsy. Who made the decision to trust me with such important things? anyway. I’d like a bag that is tight to my body and easy to move out of the way though for when I need to pick up Josie (i.e. move the camera to my back). I don’t need it to hold much in my general outings as I’d use the big bag for when I really need to haul everything. This is for more casual use to grab and go to the park for some fun photos. Any recommendations? Thanks!
In this class we went all manual, adjusting our ISO, aperture and shutter speed. Wow its challenging to take photos of small children and trying to make that all work. Our constraints for the week were to take photos in window light and shade lighting (meaning both the camera and subject are in the shade or on a cloudy day). It’s supposed to be very forgiving light and I must say that it is easier. What’s easy to take a picture of in window light? a sleeping cat. We have lots of those.
In my second photography class we learned how to adjust the depth of field, ISO, and shutter speed and took pictures using the semi-automatic settings on the camera. Our job was to purposefully get pictures of something frozen (that should obviously be moving) and to take a picture of that same thing blurred in motion, showing our control. We also were to take pictures of objects in a row and make them all in focus and some of them out of focus. I didn’t do so well on those shots, mostly because Josie didn’t like me lining up her toys, she kept moving them and I didn’t get close enough to really get the desired effect.
Objects frozen in motion:
This one I used the ‘take a bunch of pictures in a row’ setting on the camera to get a frozen one and her mid-air.
A couple of weekends ago we just needed to get out of the house and so we went to explore a nearby park called Habitat in Belmont. It was still cold with a little snow on the ground. Josie was decidedly upset with our using the word ‘park’ to describe the place as there was no playground equipment anywhere. We had to drag her around and carry her to go anywhere until we got near the lake where of course she loved to run back and forth on the boardwalk next to the water, nearly falling in. She also liked to stand on and jump off rocks. All the way to the end she continued to ask where the park was.
One of my latest photography class assignments was to take photos from different perspectives to get more interesting photos. I should really share the other photos I took, we’ll get there one day! This is again at the Children’s museum in Boston, one showing most everyone under the exhibit and then one shot from underneath. These were the first things we looked at in the museum and were a big hit.
Last weekend we went to the Children’s museum with our buddies Zach, Ethan and Christina. They had a nifty Curious George exhibit which Josie really enjoyed, especially the slide. They set up this fun statue too to take pictures with!
This weekend has mostly been a wash in a number of ways. It won’t stop raining first of all. Second, I also started in with some food poisoning or stomach bug immediately after leaving Josie’s friend’s Luke’s house on Friday so I’ve been laid up all weekend trying to eat and drink anything. Josie and Jordi and my parents did make it out to Drumlin Farm though on Saturday to eat pancakes, but unfortunately it was rainy and cold.
Josie is very proud these days of anything she can help with. One of her favorites is helping Jordi make his lunch in the morning for work. She often helps by reminding him of what goes in it (cheese, spinach, etc) and then taking the spinach they put in the sandwich and putting it on the floor or her tower. Mio likes spinach, and so does George. But of course, so does Daddy.
A few weeks ago my cousin Will came up for the holiday weekend and Josie got to meet him again for the first time since she was 2 months old. Things have certainly changed since then! We celebrated Will’s birthday a little late by all going out to dinner on Valentine’s day, so maybe not the most romantic, but we certainly weren’t in the minority being people dining with a toddler that evening! (ok so we had dinner at 6, that might change the clientele at Not Your Average Joes)
We also bought ourselves a vacuum cleaner for valentine’s day too (as a pre-agreed upon thing). Nothing says loving like a quickly but effectively cleaned house.
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