No ultrasound pic this week, but everything seems to be progressing as it should. I felt pretty crappy all week, tired tired tired and yesterday nauseous nauseous nauseous. This week has found me in bed rewatching all of the extended DVD versions of Lord of the Rings, including hours and hours of the “making of” featurettes. That’s a lot of LOTR. But I love it and it has been a good friend when I feel like I haven’t the energy to lift my head off the pillow.
Tonight I get to play designated driver for my husband, brother in law and one of our friends when we go to some restaurant in Hollywood that does tequila tasting. Although sitting around and watching them get loaded isn’t exactly my idea of a good time, hopefully I’ll be able to get in a tasty quesadilla or something.
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I’ve really been enjoying playing with the TTV technique, as you can tell from the pictures I’ve posted the past week or so. It was mainly consisting of me walking around with the old Kodak in one hand and my Digital Rebel in the other and focusing the Rebel as steadily as I could at the viewfinder of the Kodak. It worked, but the photos weren’t particularly clear or the colors as bright because it wasn’t shutting any light out between the Rebel lens and the Kodak.
Luckily, there are some very creative people out there who are willing to share their knowledge with newbies like myself, and one of them posted the instructions for what he calls “My Contraption” - a paper tube you attach to the Kodak that fits the lens of your digital camera and blocks out all the light, allowing for better, sharper, more richly colored pictures. Even more luckily, I have an awesome, handy husband who was willing to make it for me.
Cooper helped too:
The finished product:
It’s awesome and it totally works. I had a great time in the garden yesterday trying it out. Hawk made it out of black matte board, which is nice and sturdy, so I can rest the body of my camera on the top edge of the tube while I chase Jenny around the yard trying to take her picture.
in Photography and TTV.
I recently found online a bunch of awesome pictures using a new (well, new to me) photography technique called Through The Viewfinder. You take your digital camera (preferably using a macro lens) and take photos through the viewfinder of a vintage Kodak Duaflex camera. These Kodak cameras were available back in the 50s and 60s, and there are a surprising number of them in very good shape available on eBay for around $20-30. I just got mine in the mail on Friday, so I was playing with the new technique today.
Freaking. Out. Love. It. I don’t have a macro lens yet, so all of these were taken with my regular lens, but I love it.
in Photography and TTV.
Yesterday I got to go to the park with my friend Christine and her little boy, Cormac. He is such a joy and it is so much fun to watch him play, to see him run and climb. Hawk and I were there the day he was born, and it is amazing to see the beautiful little boy he has become.
in Friends and Photography.
