Sunday, March 14, 2010

Been busy - new job new things

Been a slightly busy little bee...first thing's first, I've just started a new job officially...I was temping with them at first and then had a trial week and the week that just past, I officially became a member of their staff. I'm the graphic artist/VM co-ordinator, and it's been one hell of a hectic week already!

On another note, I've also been teaching my sister's friend how to take photos with her DSLR, so it's forced me to look into my old uni photography text book, and re-discover things. It was actually a lot of fun. First week, we went down to Walsh Bay and out to one of the harbourside warehouses that jut out. We ended up taking a stack of photos of the brilliant view of the Harbour Bridge, as well as the incoming storm. My sister also got suckered into being a model for us. The lighting was absolutely beautiful as well...it was a soft sort of light and the portraits I took of her turned really beautifully.

Last night was another night of teaching photography. This time it was in a lower light situation - again it was raining (why did we pick the weeks that it was raining!), but we were having some fun with low light, flash and light trail effects. Again, my sister was the model...and we tested out depth of field as well. Was great to actually figure it all out! And the light wasn't as good as the first lesson, but was still alright, so it gave them an idea of the difference. The experiments at night were interesting too...had some fun with the in built flash as well as leaving the shutter open and capturing light trails from cars and what not.

Anyway, I'll post some photos up when I get the chance to and when I've got them off my camera's memory card :)

p.s sorry about the lack of posts...been quite a busy girl...and in two weeks I'm seeing lostprophets again woohooo!!! Next weekend's the semi-permanent design conference...can't wait - Jasper Goodall's talking - he's the guy that did a fair few of the single artwork for Muse on the Black holes and revelations album...one of my fave illustrators (along with Joe Whyte, Jason Oda and James Jean).