What a day!

It's been a crazy busy day it seems...though fun.

First in class we got the cameras and went out to take some photos of each other to give us some reference material. We walked around the area (which is my village if you recall) and took pics in an old English style phonebooth...I've wanted that pic since I moved in since it's on the Ziggy Stardust album jacket (if you remember what an album is). We walked to other areas as well so it was fun for first thing in the morning.

Next we were sent in to work on our photos for our "work life" shots...if we wrote up tutorials, got interviewed, etc then we have a stock pro photo that we worked on ourselves. The upside is that it looks very good, the downside is that I don't look exactly like that! Using our photoshop techniques I opened up my sleepy eyes, whitened the whites, cleared and balanced my skin, removed some wrinkles (not many were there thankfully), cleaned up the glass in the phone booth, lightened me up since I was in a shadow, and made the booth more red. Also I gave myself a slight nose job! so it's crazy what I can do now!

Next we had a website we designed critiqued, I won't complain (much) since it was only the second I ever tried on my own...but with some helpful critiques I think I'll get there.

Finally I did some tutorials (as seen on facebook), it was irritating since the authors don't tell you all the information that you need to know ahead of time. So it took me 4 tries to perfect what needed to be done. I went from over an hour in a try to about 10 min. So I'm not sure if that's part of the learning path but I ended up doing somethings on my own to make it work--not so bad! I think I should make this into a postage stamp!

Anyway I feel optimistic that I am learning a lot and getting better at my craft...although not fast enough for me of course!