Friday, October 3, 2008
Share the Love #5
You know the phrase, "You are your own worst critic"? Eh, I don't think it always applies to photographers.
Sure, sometimes you look at someone else's work, and then you look back at your own stuff, and you think, "I stink." It's inevitable (and probably untrue). No, what I'm actually talking about is this: I snap a picture and load it on to my computer. It catches my eye, so I spend five, ten, twenty minutes on it, dodging and burning and enhancing and cropping and de-saturating and on and on. Then I'm done. I look at it, and love it.
Enter good-looking husband:
Husband looks. Husband pauses. Husband says something along the lines of, "Ummm..."
After looking at one photo for an entirely too-long amount of time, I sometimes become accepting of its imperfections and choose to overlook its flaws. It takes Marty's candid reactions to put me in my place, and thus enable me to improve.
Make sure you have someone looking over your shoulder, telling you "good job" or "ummm" as they see fit. The outcome is ultimately up to you... but perspective is everything : )
**Update**
Speaking of Marty... he gets all four of his wisdom teeth pulled tonight. This weekend, I'll be making banana shakes, strapping ice packs to his head, and watching a James Bond movie marathon. The things we do for love : )
Sure, sometimes you look at someone else's work, and then you look back at your own stuff, and you think, "I stink." It's inevitable (and probably untrue). No, what I'm actually talking about is this: I snap a picture and load it on to my computer. It catches my eye, so I spend five, ten, twenty minutes on it, dodging and burning and enhancing and cropping and de-saturating and on and on. Then I'm done. I look at it, and love it.
Enter good-looking husband:
Husband looks. Husband pauses. Husband says something along the lines of, "Ummm..."
After looking at one photo for an entirely too-long amount of time, I sometimes become accepting of its imperfections and choose to overlook its flaws. It takes Marty's candid reactions to put me in my place, and thus enable me to improve.
Make sure you have someone looking over your shoulder, telling you "good job" or "ummm" as they see fit. The outcome is ultimately up to you... but perspective is everything : )
**Update**
Speaking of Marty... he gets all four of his wisdom teeth pulled tonight. This weekend, I'll be making banana shakes, strapping ice packs to his head, and watching a James Bond movie marathon. The things we do for love : )
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
Chicago (again!)
Chicago is an amazing place to live. The gorgeous skyline, the sports teams (GO CUBS!!), the restaurants, the changing seasons (fall is in full swing!)... I could go on and on :) Anyways, I can't believe how close we live to the city, and yet we manage to get downtown maybe four times a year?! Crazy!
Here are a few pics from our recent trip in; two friends and I took a boat tour (led by another friend from church... who hooked us up with free tickets! Thanks Josh!) over the weekend:
tour guide extraordinnaire:
Marty absolutely adores sailing, so I took this one for him:
I didn't feel like lugging my 40D around with me all day, so I brought the powershot instead. Image quality isn't exactly comparable, but it has one heck of a zoom :)
And... the almost finished Trump tower!
Here are a few pics from our recent trip in; two friends and I took a boat tour (led by another friend from church... who hooked us up with free tickets! Thanks Josh!) over the weekend:
tour guide extraordinnaire:
Marty absolutely adores sailing, so I took this one for him:
I didn't feel like lugging my 40D around with me all day, so I brought the powershot instead. Image quality isn't exactly comparable, but it has one heck of a zoom :)
And... the almost finished Trump tower!
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