Some Recent Cool Things

Well, in the last few days some cool things have happened to me. I was asked by a friend who just recently opened a business (www.abellarose.com), to teach her how to use her server and website. So, I decided to put together an outline for what I wanted to go over, and the lesson went pretty well! I was able to complete the lesson plan, and go over everything I wanted to, so it was nice. We ran into some server trouble at the end, but it looks like it's fixed now...

Last week I was playing my guitar, and one of my stings snapped! It hurt a little because my hands were still on the guitar when the string broke, so it kinda whacked a couple of my fingers. Anyways, Dad took me down to Pecknel Music Company, and we got it restrung. We also got a new string for my electric guitar, which I broke a string on while trying my hand at ear-tuning...Obviously I'm not real good at ear-tuning! So, after the guys at Pecknel strung up my guitars, they asked if I wanted to hook 'em up to a Fender amp to see what they sounded like. Of course I did! Since, my main guitar is an acoustic/electric, I was very curious to hear what it sounded like on an amp; and I was pretty impressed. The amp's sound quality was very good with both guitars. So, that was neat and the guys were really nice.

The last thing I want to include in this post is about photography. There are these things called snoots. A snoot is a tube like thingy that you hook to your flash to control the pattern of your light. You can make a small spot of light, or a larger spot, and add some really neat effects to your images that way. I looked them up on B&H and was quite disappointed in the cost of buying a snoot. So, I decided to see what I could find here at home that would work. I am currently using a piece of black cardstock rolled up into a tube as my snoot. It really works pretty well, and I'd really recommend doing it if you need a snoot effect. You can see a sample of my snoot in use over at my Photo Blog. Let me know what you think!

BTW, this will probably be the last post on here for a few weeks because we'll be shooting and working on BROS! So, even though not much will be going on around here, head on over to the BROS Blog, and follow the production. And be sure to check out the BlockOne Flikr stream that we hope to be updating daily with production photos!

-Dominic