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Behind is the understatement of the year! I am still a bit behind but finally making some headway. It’s amazing what you can get done when you actually write out the the list. :p I only do that so I can cross things off. I am working on taking some photos of my beads to post here so you can see what I have up my sleeve for Halloween. They are way too cute for words and I am pretty happy with them for the most part. I have had a few that cracked…but they are still cute so I will keep them in the photos. Speaking of photos – check out the contest on MomShots. Look what she’s giving away! I hope I win, I hope I win. I have taken a few of her tips for taking photos of the little Monkey and I will post them tonight or tomorrow at the latest! Here’s my current updated list of things to do:
- Clean Beads and group for sets - DONE! Woo hoo!
- Post “monster” Beads – photos coming in the next day or so…
- Re-do earring sets – done
- Website work
- Finish Lisa’s baby gifty! – My second ever knitting project – too cool.
- blog entries – started but need work – still working on these! can you believe it?
- Photos to edit and post -
- house to clean done but needs a redo this weekend.
- work at WORK to do – augh…this is never going away…
Hold on tight…it’s gonna be a wild ride.
I know that I promised more pictures and they are safe and sound in the camera.
The Camera. Can we talk? I love photography. But unlike the Pioneer Woman, I truly stink at it. We have a five year old six megapixel Nikon CoolPix 5400. It was the greatest thing since sliced bread when it came out five years ago. That was back when Digital SLR’s were what dreams (and home equity loans) were made of. Lately, the digital SLR’s have really come down in price and have gone through the roof with capability. So for about a year or so, I have complained and complained about the lack of capability in our little Nikon camera. Our CoolPix is a point and shoot camera. So set it on auto and away you go, right? Well, maybe but I wanted something more. How can I possibly learn with a point and shoot? I mean, really?
I campaigned for a new Canon Digital SLR thinking that perhaps I needed to make a change from my NIKON tendencies. See, marketing CAN work. And about this time last year our little Nikon just up and died. Something went kaput and the poor thing just decided not to take any pictures at all. Ah HA! My window of opportunity was there for the taking but after a bit of research of the problem, we sent the camera off to Nikon for further evaluation. AND…they fixed it. Fer nuthin. Window of opportunity slammed shut, TIGHT.
On Pioneer woman’s photo blog last week there was a compelling question placed in the Photography section. Canon or Nikon? The question sent me straight into research mode. I love her photographs. But as much as I enjoyed the wonderful pictures of her new nephew that she took with a Canon, I really missed the clarity and pop of the Nikon pics. I continued on looking at digital slr’s and features and photos. but as I dug more and more into the topic it wasn’t the cameras that captured my attention. It was the process of taking pictures. Not just the point and click part. I enjoyed reading and learning about how changing of settings, aperture, shutter speed, etc really play into the quality of the final product. Oh, so maybe it’s just me and not the camera.
Manual settings, interesting thought. Maybe I can do something with all those dials and buttons on the camera I have. What do you think? Sure enough our CoolPix actually does have MANUAL settings! Who knew?! I confess that in my attention deficit, point and shoot craziness, I failed to actually pay any attention whatsoever to the little Nikon manual that came with my camera five years ago.
OK, now I have decided to hold off torturing my husband for a new NIKON digital SLR (though this one looks way too sweet for words). Instead, I am starting to pick apart the capabilities of my little CoolPix and LEARN a bit more about it before I go running off into the land of digital SLR. Plus, maybe by the time I get more proficient with the Coolpix that sweet Nikon SLR will be a bit less trouble for my budget. You did notice I said Nikon and not Canon. It’s nice to be home, again.
I am working on loading all of my fun, unedited photos (because I don’t have photoshop yet, either) into flickr for you to peruse. I promise that there will be many pictures of the growing boy…and our stinker of a puppy and maybe I will actually learn to take some NICE pictures with this very capable Nikon.
