A Day in the Life of a Top Model

[Colin Southern]

Cheers; you certainly had some distinguished neighbours. Rutherford is very well respected around here.

Ernie and I go way back

[batman44]

These are great shots Colin, and entertaining as well!
She is such a doll!

[Colin Southern]

These are great shots Colin, and entertaining as well!
She is such a doll!

Thanks Kori

Somedays she's a doll - today she's had 65 lines: "I must not fight and argue with my sister because I love her very much!". She protested on the grounds that she really doesn't love her sister, so I offered to change them to "I must not fight and argue with my sister for although I say I don't love her I know that I really do.", but she had a change of heart and went with the first option!

[batman44]

Funny! Kids can be sooooo entertaining! I remember those days all too well!

[Colin Southern]

They're definately a challence to one's sanity some days!

[Alis]

They're definately a challence to one's sanity some days!

They say, insanity is hereditary, you get it from your kids!

Thanks, Colin for the extra detail. I use only that flash plus, when I can, a Gary Fong diffuser. I have thought of getting more stuff but have always changed my mind since I have no one to hold them for me or I do not have a studio to use them in house. Specially when my subjects is not that stationary. I like the video series you suggested since it apparently relies on only one source of lighting. I have just watched the first one that is free so far!

[PopsPhotos]

In terms of "ability" - it's nothing that anyone can't learn.

When I was teaching computer usage in the early days of desktop computers, I used to tell my students, "There is nothing about computers that is difficult after you learn two things."

"1. 1 + 1 = 10"
"2. You can't break a computer by typing on the keyboard."

The point being that the physical side of things is really fairly simple. The artistic side of things is in your mind. A good example of that is the picture I just saw in the quick peeks part of the main menu - the clothes pin on the line. That is art. Being able to see the picture when you are looking at it. The camera stores that as a photograph. If you run the physical side of things properly, the picture will be there.

Pops

[Colin Southern]

When I was teaching computer usage in the early days of desktop computers, I used to tell my students, "There is nothing about computers that is difficult after you learn two things."

"1. 1 + 1 = 10"
"2. You can't break a computer by typing on the keyboard."

That reminds me of the old computer joke ...

There are 10 types of people in this world; those that understand binary, and those that don't!

Actually, in a previous life, I discovered that you CAN break a computer by typing at the keyboard ... I wrote what was probably one of the very first screen savers (it just blanked the screen) - it was written in assembly language, and it got pretty intimate with the video controller chip. On one occasion I changed a register that controlled some of the timing - which in turn tried to make the display scan faster than it was capable off - which was follwed by a high-pitch whine and a burning smell

[ashooor]

she is very cute .. I most liked #1

[PopsPhotos]

Ah, but you were not just typing. You were messing with the ticklish spots of the computer. Remember, I was teaching computer usage, not computer destruction.

Your program just blanked the screen, eh. The one I wrote sampled random 12.5% squares of the screen display and moved them to random places on the screen. I missed a decimal point in the final (hurry-up-we're-shipping-TODAY) tweak and you couldn't type fast enough to keep the screen from going crazy. Production was not happy. Shipping & Receiving was not happy. Programming was not happy. Head Engineer got all dirty, rolling about on the floor, laughing.

Pops