had a great day today. i went to my favorite coffee shop today and read about the zone system. it’s really sinking in now. the other day i talked to a guy at keeble & schucat about exposure and meters. that plus playing with my new light meter (thanks mom and dad!) and thinking, i’m starting to understand: zone system, compression+expansion, lattitude.
i decided to practice shooting today so i loaded up some film and went down to santa cruz.. i haven’t been there in ages. i ate a corndog.. i looked at the pier through one of the pay scopes, i watched kids on the roller coaster. i took notes on what i was shooting. i picked some subjects i knew would be off from normal average-metering. i used incident metering as a test (to get a ballpark) and used spot metering and averaging to decide what to shoot at. some of the shots i wanted to adjust the overall exposure.. so i’ll see how all those turn out.
i ate pizza-by-the-slice for dinner and headed back home. it was a great day.
last night alex and nick came over for an imprompu movie night. we watched sur mes levres (”read my lips”), a french movie that got excellent ratings. and it was a pretty good movie. turns out alex’s dad is doing art photography for a living now!
tonight i have to pick up a friend at the airport. tomorrow i’m going to boman’s after coffee to help out with the dinner party.
