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Today, after school, both Christopher and I went over to his house to plan out the weekend and sort through all the equipment we borrowed from the Mac Lab. Christopher has already mentioned most everything that we borrowed, so for me to restate the entire, final list, would take too long. But, all I have to say is that it was a lot!

The first thing that we did after looking through everything was, like usual, cleaning all the lenses and filters.  It’s amazing how some things can get to be so dirty, especially camera equipment, which spends most of it’s life zipped up in a bad. All I have to say is, that was pretty bad. That is something which needs to be done much more often.

We created some interesting light painting  images using a flashlight hung from a spinning ceiling fan. It was the first time that we’ve tried using this technique, and it turned out fairly well. The images are being imported into iPhoto right now, but before we post them, I’ll want to edit them in Camera Raw a bit.

Oh, I forgot to mention. Today we experimented with Snapz Pro, the application that Skocko uses to create his tutorials. Pretty cool! This is how we plan on making our tutorials for the “This is how we do it” page. Again, kind of random, but I’ve finally figured out why at the end of some of Skocko’s tutorials you hear a loud “cut.”

This weekend, I will be in Orange County, more specifically, Ladera Ranch and Newport. Both of these places are great locations to do light painting. So by the end of the weekend, I hope to have taken some pictures that are worthy of going on this blog and hopefully here as well.