So, yesterday (3/8/11) was bitter sweet. I re-found two lenses for my mom's old video camera. Old. Old. Old. A telephoto lens and a wide angle lens. They just so happen to fit over my 50mm lens and when held in place, affect how the end photo comes out. Deciding to experiment, I left for Western an hour and a half earlier than I would have in order to give myself time to mess around with the different lenses. I only got about 5 different subjects but ended the trip with 140 photos, 52 of which are of me. And for the most part, I like how my photos came out. They aren't the most artistic pieces, but for quick little snapshots, they aren't that bad.
While that was pretty fun to experiment, my main intention with taking my camera out was to take photos of Children of Eden, as put on by Western High. Last semester, I had taken photos of the one night display of Rocky Horror Picture show, and their drama department loved my photos, so I hoped to do it again this time. And on top of that my "little sister" is in it, and I wanted to be annoying. But while the play was awesome to watch, my photos turned out like crap; to the point where I stopped taking photos before intermission. Over exposed, blurry as hell, etc. etc. Given, the lighting wasn't the best I've ever worked with considering I couldn't use flash, but with my 50mm I could get down to F1.8 and using between 800 and 1600 ISO, I should have been able to got something. I just couldn't find the right settings to use and I just felt extremely disappointed with myself. And what possibly kills more than anything was that Aimee (my best friend/ "little sister") told me afterwards that she could hear my camera shutter and was distracted. I felt absolutely terrible...
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