84: John and Callye

So remember how I said I get to use a studio since I am a member of my university's photo society? Finally got in there. Wow was it fun! Wow is there a lot to learn!! The main thing I've noticed is the vignetting, which you can see in this picture, and almost all the others I took. We had a great time, and cannot wait to get back in there! These are my friends, John and Callye. You'll meet my other friend tomorrow

83: On Assignment

On assignment for one of the school papers today.

I did two others, and one got me into a comedy show that normally cost $25. It was a comedy showdown between Toronto comedians and Montreal comedians. I only stayed for the first Montreal, and first Toronto comedian, but they were both very funny. I also got a bit of the 'I'm a journalist and can go into the show just to take pictures!' I would have had no problem paying, but as money is not as abundant as I would like, going to laugh for a little bit in exchange for shooting some pics was a nice deal.

82: Medals

This was taken as a favour for my boyfriend's wine blog (linkie on the right). It's one of the few times we're tasting completely different things in the same wine. I'm tasting fruit jam (blackberry mostly) and he's tasting tobacco.

I just emailed the picture to him, so he should be posting soon.

Oh yes, and he thinks this wine is seriously overrated and that one should not trust the medals listed on the label!

Cheers!

81: MacDonald Engineering Building

Not much else to say. One of the buildings on campus

79: more river

Ok, blogger is working now!

78: Hopscotch

As always, by boyfriend decided he had to see hwo thick the ice was, even though it had started to break up. It was still quite thick in most places, so he was able to cross the river

77: Breaking Up

So even though it was well below freezing, there have been a few spells warm enough to start the breaking up of the ice on the river.

Just some fun wide angle stuff, taken with the fish eye. I'm really starting to like this lens! I forgot to take some jpegs, and I have no raw covnersion software, and I'm on dial-up, so I didn't feel like waiting for RAW essientials to download

76: St Paddy's Day

So this marks my getting caught up on my PAD. Next step will to get some comments onto those who have been morally supporting me through my mideterms. Thanks guys!

I went to a drop-in CV (resume) clinic today, and while I was waiting, what I think was the on campus day care kids dropped by. They had obviously spent the morning making green birron things and the hats and stuff, and we're doing a little mini parade through the various offices in the building. They'd stop and wave their little green streamers and say Happy St. Patrick's Day

As they were leaving, they didn't do much smiling, but they did do a lot of staring. I'm assuming they were staring at my fabulous camera :D

They are a little on the fuzzy side because this was indoors, and I didn't want to use the flash on them. Fixed these up in raw which made a huge difference.

While I'm not a supporter of commercialized holidays, especially ones like Valentine's Day, I will support St. Paddy's Day. Why? How many holidays are out there where you are expected to go out and drink beer? That being said, have a good time day, drink responsibly, and DO NOT drink and drive. Take a cab. Please!!!

And the final thought for the day courtesy of the comics page today: If you drink green beer, where does all the green go when it comes out the other end?

75: Fun with fish-eyes

I lent my 16mm Zenitar fish eye to a friend who took it to Europe for 2 1/2 weeks. His pictures with it were awesome, and I realized I needed to start palying with it more as I've hardly ever used. I bought it this past summer of DrNick (thanks Doc!), and decided today I'd try some stuff with it.

So, here are a few results. I'm realizing I don't think I'll be able to use it much for anything close up because of the manual focus. I have a hard time determing what is in focus when it's a close up. I've tried a few times and everything ends up fuzzy. Maybe if I get one of those magnifying things for the eye piece, it will help. Other than that, I will stick to things that I can put the focus on infinity.

These were taken on McGill campus.

74: Balance and Play

So this is the photo contest I entered at my university. The themes were balance and play. I submitted three, and all three were selected for display. Judging hasn't happened yet, or if it has, then I didn't win anything. These are displayed in the walkway between two of our major libraries. Lots of people looking at them, which is fun. Our names aren't on them, but it's still fun to know people stop and look at the pictures. Just in case some McGill folks look at this, I'll refrain from pointing out which ones are mine, but those of you who know my stuff should be able to find at least one of them ;-)

73: Self-Portrait

:P

This is what I look like, and my next midterm isn't until Thursday.

I don't know where I got this picture from, but if this is someone's material, and you are that someone or you know that someone, please let me know so I can give due credit, or if need be, remove it.

72: Rant

Ok, A day late and a dollar short, and not even a picture. Instead, I am going to rant and rave over how much I hate multiple choice tests. I hate hate hate hate them. They are screwing me up, even though I know the information. I'm so annoyed I can't be bothered to even find an old picture to put up. Sorry

ARGH

71: Since I never re-posted it...

Well, since I messed up yesterday, might as well post an old shot I took down to dubmit and then never re-posted it. This is from the burst of colour challenge. I called this poof! No, it's not someone's hair, as someone asked, it's a very cozy soft scarf. I tend to get cold easily, so this winter, it's been a great way for me to stay warm. Fuzzy pink scarf for my neck and fuzzy cute panda slippers for my feet. Now if only warm fuzzy things would help me solve acid base titration questions.

70: Challenge Entry warning!! (Merlin)

So this is my square crop entry. I'm posting 20 minutes before turnover. Sue me :-P

Edit: Whoops! MattO was kind enough to point out that I am a day early with rollover. Sorry about that. This is what chemistry does to your brain folks!

I really liked this picture. I know his left side was not lit, but this was taken as a sort of snapshot picture. I'm posting the original pretty much converted straight out of the RAW photo. I now realize I could have maybe selected out the eye and tried to lighten it up. Next time. I also did a run through neat image, but I toned it way down because I kept losing the detail of the hair. e301 left a great comment on my picture, and I thank him for that. Have I mentioned how much I LOVE RAW?

That being said, can I tell you how sick I am of entropy and acid base titrations?
I did take pictures today, but they were for the speed challenge. I will post when it's over

69: Solitary

Ok, so, not as interesting composition wise for me, but no person in the picture this time. And this was taken facing the other way.

I'm thinking I'm going to be to stuffed full of equilibrium constants and entropy that I'll need a break and go out and shoot some stuff this weekend

It is spring at last. Above zero rain, so no freezing rain, which meant no ice skating on the streets! whoohoo! Amazing what will excite you when you're sick of winter and ready for some green and pretty flowers. Still a month away from that, but this at least provides a tiny glimmer of hope.

Having said that, we'll probably get one of those huge blizzards in April like we did a few years back. Would make for fun pictures!!

68: Approaching

So this picture was taken at the same time as the self portrait I did a while back. My boyfriend had gone for a walk on the river on the other side, and crossed back over and was coming back towards me. I've submitted this to a geopgraphy photo contest at my university, so I don't think anything will happen with it, but I liked the picture.

Back to acid bases, equilibrium and Le Chatelier's Principle!

67: Cleo

This is my friend's cat, Cleo. She was being a real poser, which is very rare. My friends said she's generally not very photogenic. Her left eye is a little squished, but I thought she looked cute in this

66: Carrots

Carrots. Need I say anything else?

I won't be commenting for a while. Tons of assignments and two midterms will be my priority. Will get back to commenting afterwards.

65: Ready for spring

Don't you hate it when you forget to change your ISO back when you've were shooting low light the alst time? This is 1600 iso ans I'm to lazy to try and clean it up. Sorry.

It's March, which means spring should be in teh air. It's not quite, but at least it's been sunny. I cannot wait for spring. So looking forward to it!

64: Challenge Entry

Ok, last time I did this, I said I'd post it, and I never got around to it. Hopefully this time I'll remember. Or maybe I'll make it my PAD in a week. We shall see. I'm hoping for a nice average 5.5 score on this on. I like the sqaure crop format, should be interesting.