Agreed

Dunno about the getting old though - I've realised that now all 3 of my grandchildren are in Secondary School - now that is concerning me

At the moment I'm just cogitating

The last couple of days have been , weatherwise , horrible

I object to being in the house at 10.30 in the morning and debating about putting on the lights

If I'm really stuck I've found a pic I took about 3 years ago of my granddaughter - it breaks all the rules - she was seated on the floor looking up at me , but with the window light [ ] it actually worked. Point & shoots can have their uses - the Kodak was beside me so I grabbed the chance

I'm sure Ben is right.

I suspect that there's so much nudity on display now that we are finding it's becoming accepted as the norm.

I'm sure that many of us would prefer that it was toned down - and just the hint that there's 'something' there is more appealing that putting it in our faces.

Yeah - I know I'm a Fuddyduddy too

It's alternated between very heavy rain and lighter rain and very high winds all day here .

Thank goodness my nice decorator man got the timber treatment on the front porch and the back fence yesterday when it was actually dry all day.

s'OK 'Parched of Bromborough '

Bits of Scotland are very wild - particularly where the gales are preventing ships getting in and out of ports.

Hope your supplies get to you soon

Eternal Memory

As I said after last week's débacle - I certainly learned a hard lesson BUT remember he didn't come near me - he watched over his 2 favoured students [ who produced some good results it has to be admitted ] Other students also looked shocked when he said he didn't realise that stabilisation had to be taken off before using a tripod [ yes I now know how to do it - but I didn't last week ]

As I said when I did this course in January - I do NOT learn well from reading - I'm a 'doer' but there are now another 8 folk who have learned from my error .

My instructor has in fact done very little teaching of the class this time - he has taught 2 favoured students and the rest of us have been left to our own devices.

A teddy bear - tempting though it is , is not what he wants - he wants a human and if you have no tame relatives living in your city , and the few friends you have do not wish to be photographed [ and have made it clear in the past ] then you are , so to speak , up a gum tree.

Reflectors - what reflectors - I don't have any

There's going to be a heck of a lot of headscratching over this one

Hmm

Now what do you make of an instructor who doesn't know that you should not use any form of stabilisation while using a tripod - oh and says so to the whole class ?

Though we do have a class next week we had to do the evaluation forms tonight - mine is exceedingly non committal and I will be putting in a letter later.

Class was very strange tonight - yes he had brought a studio light and a sort of 'thingie' like the type of umbrella you can put over food with a white translucent side towards the subject [ it was all in a huge Bowens bag. Them, and such as them, were allowed to take pics using it , and his trigger [ fitted into their hotshoe ]

the rest of us did nothing except watch - except me who took some piccies just to show they could be done . I was supposed to be the model so the light was more or less pointing on me so I took advantage of it !!

for the last half hour we had an off the cuff discussion about portrait photography - and it was good - I have to admit it.

He's actually set specific homework for next week - a portrait !! Now where on earth am I going to find a subject for that

I would like to be able to produce something really really stunning

ooooh a very nice reward Tony