Day 500

5/29/2008

taken : 5/29/2008

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LOST season finale tonight.

so awesome.

Thanks for the food Mike and Ally

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So...

...so comes the end of another photo class at CU (Tomorrow that is...I spent a little bit of today putting together my final powerpoint).

Let me speak about it a little bit...

(the class that is...not the powerpoint)


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I am continually disappointed with the level of incompetence shown by instructors in the the studio art classes. I could have easily taught this class much better than it was. I am not being cocky...It is just sad to see your instructor do absolutely NOTHING

...and when he did do anything, he didn't even do it right.

I marked my instructor way way way down on FCQ's. The only comment I left was

"I learned nothing from this class"

I am over this class.

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The irony is this:

Using film is horrible for the environment. You may recall a small rant I went on a few weeks back when my film class was coming to a close.

So, I shall not repeat the problems with shooting film and the environment.

But get this...

So this class is Environmental Digital Photography

The aim was to explore current environmental issues (which hardly anyone did) through our photography...(AND YES) we (as photographers) can breathe easy knowing we are shooting digitally and helping the environment just a tad bit by not shooting film.


As you may recall me mentioning, students are to bring 30 images to class everyday, shot and edited from the previous day.

And how, might you ask, do we turn in these images to our instructor?

CD-r's.

ONE TIME USE OPTICAL DISCS.

Somene asked our instructor why we don't just get flash drives that we can use over and over again.

"I mean...Ken...this is an environmental art class"

Ken refused to accept pictures on flash drives.

It was more "convenient" for him to get CD-r's everyday from us.

How wasteful.

But alas, why not use re-writeable discs?

Ken could not get those to work???

I don't know.???

Who knows.???

Fuck this class.








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Morning update

Last night I installed the EOS software that came with my Canon. I wanted to try out the remote capture software. It is pretty slick. You can tether your camera to your laptop via USB and control it from there.

This morning I decided to do a set up and test a time lapse sequence. There is really nothing composition wise, this was merely a technical test to see how I may do a time lapse in the future.

I set my camera up to fire every minute for about two hours. Then I placed all the images in Final Cut Pro and had each one display for .5 seconds.

I think what I may do next is a time lapse of the Flatirons (typical) during sunset...???

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you get the idea

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