Apr 3
Until the new camera arrives…
… I’m messing around with Photoshop to see how I can get some decent photos of things I find lovely. Mostly things I’ve purchased. For example, my favorite candles in the world at present - these Henri Bendel Home candles in Fig (available at Bath & Body Works, I think).
I love the scent, the design, the font and the frosted glass. A simple pleasure.
Then, there’s this awesome notecard action from Paperchase (it’s a folder containing 10 each of two designs similar to this cover):
I think a fun experiment will be to try taking photos of these same objects when I have the new happy snappy action on Monday. That will kill a good few hours when I get home from work. Mmmm-hmmm. You can look forward to seeing photos of various objets d’art (in a generous sense) such as books, nicely packaged anything, and much much more!
Something tells me that these will look a bit sweeter once I have the Nikon D40. It’s not a top of the line dSLR, but that would be wasted on me at this point anyway - just as it would be a waste to give a 15 year-old girl a Bugatti Veyron as her first car. Yeah. That’s the analogy I want to make.
It’s a solid “beginner” dSLR and I’ve gotten a bunch of books about the camera itself as well as digital photography in general so I can study up on composition, lighting, portraiture, etc. Then I can use it to take awesome photos of whatever I deem worthy when I go to Coachella and on a little vacation later this month.
This week has been good so far. I’m glad. I usually get pretty down in the dumps when I near my birthday, but that melancholy cleared itself out a few weeks ago and now I’m OK with turning 30 tomorrow. I’ll be spending the afternoon and evening with a few of my dearest, closest friends (and hearing from others who aren’t as geographically close right now) and I think it’s going to be really fun and chill. Just how I like it.
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