Tonight I had my first Digital Photo II Class at RayKo, the studio where I’m currently interning. RayKo offers a range of classes that are open to the public, anything from darkroom courses to shooting and processing iPhone photos. Through my internship this summer I’m lucky enough to take three of their classes free of charge (the classes are hundreds of dollars each, so it’s an amazing deal). In addition to the Digital Photo II, I’m taking a studio lighting class in mid-August and a digital printing course to learn how to actually print my stuff. Which would be nice. I’m also helping an instructor with a class on Saturday, which might offer more information.
For the longest time I’ve been shooting just to shoot without thinking about any of the logistics of it. I wouldn’t give a second thought to dumping my digital images on my computer and butchering them in Photoshop without considering color depth, histograms, and clipping (among other things). I feel like a fool for messing with JPG’s so much when I could have pushed an image’s quality to great heights with RAW. Now I know, and I’m learning! Learning feels so nice.
My first assignment for the class is to shoot a self-portrait (something I’ve always loved the challenge of) and a portrait. Sounds simple enough, but it’s terrifying. I’m going to try not to think of it too much—when it comes naturally I find, it’s not as painful.
As far as photo goes, I really feel that things are going to pick up from here…
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here's the cliffsnotes of this blogpost (or the episode summary if this were “The Hills” and we were catching viewers up for the next episode):
“Jenny has a great internship. She's always loved photography and it has come so easily to her because she has instinctive composition and creativity. She's finding out, though, that her natural talents can soar even further, which most of us find hard to fathom. But with the right connections and know-how with which she was born, Jenny's skillz are going to take the Frisco Bay by storm.
Meanwhile, Jermaine is cheating on Solange, which she learned via her Twitter feed. Stay tuned to see what happens on the next episode of “The Russian Hill.”
“Oooh, I dreeeam, oooooh I flyyyyyy….”
-a
the end part is the theme song, something colbie callait-ish.
-still a
that made my day, a.
Ditto what a. said minus the Hills b.s. Who watches that crap? Lol.
-k