I took a bit of a plunge and did a model shoot with a friend, Mandy, just last weekend.
Mandy’s a kitting blogger (a blogging knitter?) and a new pal of Susie’s—and mine, I’m sure she’ll hasten to add. She had a funky scarf she’d made, and she knew I had this snazzy camera.
She wanted some pics of the scarf, and I wanted to try out shooting a model who wasn’t related or married (i.e. who didn’t have to put up with me). We met at my place, and headed off to Stanley Park to find a copse or a cove.
But we never made it to the park—we kept finding interesting venues between here and there, and ran out of time, and space on my card.
I also tried using my camera’s “digital negative” image format, which turns out to be WAY better than the high-quality JPG setting I was using before. This is very bad news, because this means each image will now take up 3-5 times as much disk space.
Nevertheless, I had a great time, and I’m now looking for another subject to direct my lens upon. If you’d like to spend an hour or two with me, and get a very large number of pictures, a few of which might be quite good, please let me know.
“I’m not bitter about what happened to me as a child, and my mother was instrumental in keeping me from being so. ... She taught me to be grateful for my life regardless of what that entailed, and that’s directly related to the image of Christ on the cross and the example of sacrifice that he gave us. What she taught me is that the deliverance God offers you from pain is not no pain—it’s that the pain is actually a gift. What’s the option? God doesn’t really give you another choice.”
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