Worst case of the Mondays

This morning, I thought today was going to be great. Woke up at 7, saw the sunrise, got productive, wrote a list of what I wanted to do, and all that jazz. But I'm pretty sure today turned out to be one of my least productive days yet. I barely did anything on my list, I couldn't concentrate in class, my points for the debate coming up on Thursday were all really lame, and worst of all, it took me a good 15 minutes to convince myself that, when a and b positive integers, the intersection of ( y > a + b ) and ( y > a ) is just the former. As a math major, this is really bad. Really, really bad.

Obviously, today just wasn't my day. I am looking forward to the 4 day weekend and fall break after that. I can't believe we're already a month into uni! But let's talk about nicer things.

I have a new camera, a bridge-style Canon, and I figure I should learn how to take a decent picture before my world tour. So, I joined the Photography club and tagged along for a "model shoot" at the Mount Lofty Botanic Gardens As it turns out, the models all quit- one even had the audacity and unmitigated nerve to post that she "had found a better job." Pfft. Who needs them? Not us, apparently. We just took pictures of each other. It started off awkward- the first idea was to take pictures of a fake proposal- but by the end of the day we were all just mucking around and getting dirty.

The original assignment was to take magazine
model poses, describe them to the model (without
showing them!) and then trying to re-create the shoot.
It didn't turn out well....

Things I learned from Sunday:

1. If models are posing, it would be nice to get their entire body in the frame. My main problem was that with spot metering (that's what we were using) and such a dark background (it was pretty cloudy), I felt like it was necessary to put the spot on people's faces so that they didn't turn into ghosts. And so everyone seemed to be foot-less- the photos are more portraits than anything. But there should be a way around that- just have to find it.
2. I'm very new and bad at photography. There were some guys with the sickest setups, and the craziest part was that they new everything about each part. I just stared at them. That's got to be the product of a lot of time and effort!
3. I should be a model! Or at least that's what they all said. I think it's because I show terror on my face really readily, and they all thought it was great. So there you go, agencies, come at me.