I’ve been no a real streak of fun, lovely, and happy adventures lately. I attended Vivienne‘s demo today where she shared her Polaroids and showed us how she tricked the cameras into making double exposures. All that means is that you take two photos in one frame. The results are dreamy, overexposed and a bit ghostly. This is my favourite double exposure I made today.
That’s the Woodwards Condo building mixed with some graffiti from a nearby alley.
Vivienne also let us use a Polaroid with some black and white film. I’ve never used that before. I gave it a whirl. I liked the results, but I somehow made the photos underexposed, so all my photos came out very dark.
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I had the great idea to start shooting in film last night at Malcolm’s super late birthday dinner. Due to a busy schedule, the reservation was set for 9:30 pm. Hey! We were eating like the French do! Super late. Unless you’re the French Soccer Team – then you can eat whenever you want, because you’re not playing football against the Norwegian team, is all I’m saying.
But enough about the French team’s situation. I had a situation myself to deal with. I wasn’t a total bonehead. I brought my digital camera with me. I fact, I loaded up my Nikon with a card I pulled out of my camera case without looking at it. I had my film camera and my backup digital camera (at one point, both around my neck simultaneously) at the restaurant – feeling very proud of myself and all my photographic bravery.
I snapped photos of the birthday boy and all the dinner festivities with the silly blue camera and the old fashioned flash, not really sure if I was really winding the thing right or not. But I decided to take out my Nikon once the cake arrived – which was funny because Malcolm had no idea that was going to happen and thought the waitress was being rude and rushing us out by “resetting the table”. He thought the plates and forks they were putting on the table were for the next guests. Heeeheee! In the whole time I’ve known Malcolm, I’ve never seen him get snippy, but here he was, on his birthday, getting a little testy. This was the perfect time for me to take photos of him! I clicked 1 photo and then my camera stopped working. I checked the message on the LCD screen to see this:
CARD FULL
What? I took 1 photo. How did that happen? I pulled the memory card out and looked at it. Apparently a 16 M card can only handle 1 photo when shooting in high resolution. I just learned that at that moment. So, I changed the settings on my camera and was able to take 2 photos. I would take a photo and if I didn’t like it, delete it. Here are the only two digital photos I kept from the evening.
Actually, this first one is a keeper. At the time I took the picture, the whole restaurant joined in with us singing Happy Birthday to Malcolm. It was totally spontaneous on the other guests’ part. So. Fun.
For my other photo, I was determined to get the Jello in somehow. And I did.
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This month’s edition of wallpaper calendars are up and ready to be downloaded for your viewing pleasure. And they are free. Yay to that.
Just:
1) click on the photo you’d like to use
2) then click on “all sizes”
3) click on download the “large size” or “original size”
4) wait for the photo to be saved on your desktop
5) right click on your desktop
6) hit properties
7) click “desktop”
Oh my God, should it really be taking this many steps? Don’t give up now. There’s still more steps. But it’s worth all the clicking.
select the “browse” option and then find the file on your desktop.
9) click it…
10) click on open
11) click on apply
12) there you go – pretty flowers or plants or a record player or an illustration. There are so many to choose from. You could even change them throughout the month if you like. The others are below…
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Hey guys! Cynthia, Robyn, Scout [links below!] and myself did another set of free calendars for the month of March. Feel free to click on the image you like, download the big size and make it your desktop wallpaper.
Here’s mine:
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