Chiayi – No time for regrets

Skip to content

Search for:

No time for regrets

Figuring out life by running directly at it.

Category: Chiayi

1 Post

My compliments to the chef

My compliments to the chef

July 16, 2012 — 0 Comments

Looking for something?

Search for:

@icollectmaps

Window seat every time. #cloudporn #landscape #appalachianmountains #nikond5500

Still playing with edits. I figured I’d show how the sausage is made. 1. The final edit. 2. The original. 3. Video showing my LR mobile edits 4. What I’d look like as a blonde. Weird, right? I need to try a lighter/airier edit of this one. Black and white is just so much easier because you can just black out all the errors, like walls and whatnot. I need to expand my list of portrait models. I practiced yesterday, and my sister said the edits were good, but that I looked scared. I either look scared or constipated. But at least the edits were decent.

Took this in front of my sister’s dining room window with my iPhone, then edited the heck out of it with the Lightroom app. I decided last night that if I want to be better at portraits, I need to practice. So here we are. #portrait #blackandwhite

This is the head of the alligator from before. Shot through the plexiglass window and edited to heck. A couple friends have told me about @sonyalpha’s Alpha Female Program. I’ve looked into it, and it seems like an incredible opportunity. I just have two issues: 1. One of the entry requirements is to write a pitch that details how I would “leverage the program to achieve [my] career aspirations and what the outcome would be.” I don’t know what my photography career aspiration is. It’s not to have a large social media presence or have my artistic prints on people’s living room walls. I’d say it would be to win the Pulitzer and have my photography help shed light on something happening in the world. But the majority of photojournalists have to freelance, and are often treated as terribly as journalists when it comes to media outlets paying for and respecting their work. According to the freelance rates database on Contently, BBC News has paid $441 flat for an 800-word reported story with multiple sources and pictures. VICE paid $150 flat for a 1,000-word reported feature in a hazard zone, with pictures. That’s... that’s just awful. No travel expenses. A lot of work. For money that’s going to be taxed to high heaven because it’s freelance. Atrocious. On a lighter note: 2. I don’t shoot Sony. I’m a Nikon woman. Part of the program is that you get $5,000 to spend on gear, but that gets me, what, a camera body and maybe two lenses? Although I suppose I could do that. I only have three lenses now, and I do just fine. If Nikon could set something like this up, I’d be ready to apply in a heartbeat. (Psst... hey @nikonusa... can I get a maybe?) I’ll probably still apply for the Alpha Female Program because it’s outstanding, and I’d learn a ton. But, to quote the Beyoncé song, “What is your aspiration in life?” I don’t know. #nikond5500 #lightroom #fortworthzoo #alphafemale

This reminds me: how do people with long nails do important things? Like... cleaning? How do their nails not get super disgusting? I have so many inappropriate but totally legit questions about life that I may never be able to get answers to. So instead, here’s a bird from the Fort Worth Zoo. #nikond5500

Hit the Ft. Worth Zoo today. Taking photos at a zoo is a bit like shooting fish in a barrel. I’m ready to see elephants, lions, gorillas, and hippos in person on their turf. Although if I get this view of a crocodile in the wild, I’m probably in trouble. #fortworth #fortworthzoo @fortworthzoo

Categories

Categories

Like what you've read?

If you want to get new posts in your inbox, enter your email address to follow my blog.

Join 162 other followers

© 2018 No time for regrets

Blog at WordPress.com.