I arrived early this week and room was boiling as it was a really nice bright warm day!
As mentioned in last weeks post we were asked to bring in items that suggested something of ourselves so that we might produce portraits through objects using studio lighting.
As soon as the majority of the group had arrived we all went down to the studio that had apparently been set up for us to use…..err…no! One of the studio lights had been plugged in to a socket that made it swing around as the chord was too short so I suggested we plug it in on the opposite side of the room. As I plugged it in I noticed that the socket was turned on already…so was the lamp…”hang on!” I interrupted Kitt in mid flow. “The socket is on and so is the lamp yet, we don’t seem to have light!”. “Oh god…I could scream!” she exclaimed. It seemed this wasn’t the only thing that had gone wrong for her today. Her son had poured coffee all over her computer earlier.
None of the lights worked as it turned out so after a bit more stressing and exasperating we all went back to our hot room and abandoned the shoot! I had already done my contact sheet and evaluated my images from last weeks shoot at home but some hadn’t so that was the next task. I found a pc to sit at and worked out my log in details. To my surprise it worked, although others weren’t so lucky, that I wasn’t surprised about! Also printing was not possible either for most (me included). Tutor Kitt looked about ready to loose it at this point (understandable) but decided that if we didn’t mind she would like to move the weeks around and do an introduction to Photoshop instead. I have been using Photoshop for over 2 years now but was happy to do this as I am self taught and I was looking forward to finding out if I was using it correctly.
As it turned out most of what I have been doing has been correct, it also help to de-mystify a lot of it and it taught me a few things too.
I had a bit of a moan to kitt about the level of technical let downs we have had and I was told its sort of par for the course (so to speak), “that’s all well and good but we have paid for this course you know?”. I didn’t actually say that out loud but I thought it with a stern look on my face!
So the upshot is we have to take our objects in again next week, fingers crossed all will be well.
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