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So as with every time I learn a new technique I must try it out on poor Domo. After our last time out doing portraits with a flash I really wanted to know how to achieve better results and nicer lighting.
Turns out, flash photography is a whole new world of learning and of course buying things! So I went and got a light stand with umbrella and some wireless receivers and here we are again.
We went to the same park as the last photo trip and this time tried some off camera flash stuff. It took a while to learn and honestly I'm still trying to understand it, but we took some really cool shots I think. Here's the first one hot off the presses.
For the learning challenge. I FINALLY caved. ;) Printed off the free "Friendship Definition" digi kit found at 2 peas: www.twopeasinabucket.com/shop/hero-arts/83717-digikit-ha-.... Used it in 2 sizes. Larger for the strip and a smaller size to use with the MS 3 Butterflies punch. Also used Line and Flower DB stamp with Versamark on thee background but it's hard to see in the picture. Notecard, gems and felt flower all HA.
Andy teaches the locals of Hartlepool the art of drone photography as 800111 heads north working a delayed 1S09 08:00 Kings Cross to Edinburgh
...So many I'm drowning in them! A camera body in a foreign language; lenses which behave completely different; a new location which is a mine field of new treasures, if I can find them.
As frustrating as it can be at moments and as overhelming as it is all the time, I'm reveling in each moment of it.
Please bear with me as I dial things in, practicing in my backyard. I will continue to strive towards the landscapes that I love, but until things reach that point there's a whole lot of learning to be done.
In the meantime I hope you enjoy this view from Lakeview Drive toward Queen Anne, with downtown creeping in on the left.
K-12 Instructional Technology Specialists visit the Grand Valley Mary Idema Pew Library Learning and Information Commons as well as the GVSU Tech Showcase
grandpa is trying to teach little man to play the piano...
My dad is having major back surgery tomorrow. I am so worried, but hope today's technology makes it an easy recovery. Say a prayer for grandpa if you will.....
One of my photography goals has been to try a levitation photo, and I think I can successfully check that off my to-do list. It was easier than I expected, at least with a levitation photo this basic. But damn, no one tells you how much your back hurts after balancing on a stepladder for a photo! Sacrifices for art.
Inspired by the Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference, LAK11. More explanation: dougclow.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/the-learning-analytics-...
Monks Norbu (13) and Lobsang Penjor (9) learning in their monastery house. As it is winter time, they are allowed to wear warm clothes over their monk robes.
From Tawang monastery series.
I knew how to emboss before I joined the HA group but never really used it... so here is my go at clear embossing with the heart winged butterfly stamp.... can you guess I LOVE this stamp!! ! LOL!!!
Black cardstock and black envelope stamped with versamark and heat embossed with clear powder. Labels one die cut and coloured pearls black with a sharpie (another new thing I learnt recently). pp by K&Co (Amy Butler) Sentiment from CL277.
I also embossed a butterfly on the envelope flap and put a white insert into the card.
The Science behind the emotion.
Q: Why don’t we forget how to ride a bike?
A: Theory holds several clues to support the oft-heard phrase “just like riding a bike.”
Riding a bicycle is what motor control experts tend to refer to as a “continuous task,” compared to discrete tasks with definite endings (like turning a key to start your car). Peter van Kan, kinesiology professor at UW-Madison, said research has laid out three reasons why bicycle riding feels like second nature.
Discrete tasks draw more on verbal and cognitive skills, while continuous tasks are written into a more reflexive mechanism in the mind. Continuous tasks also require — and are more likely to be given — more attention and time during the learning process, and thus become further ingrained.
“One way to look at it is a continuous task may incorporate many discrete actions,” van Kan said. “(While learning) a continuous task you have many more opportunities to accomplish the many discrete tasks.”
Most important, van Kan said, might be the way we judge bicycle riders. If you learn to ride a bicycle, but then stay out of the saddle for several years, your first few cranks of the pedals post-lay-off may not make you look like Lance Armstrong.
“You may be a little unstable at first,” van Kan said. “But very quickly, as you are repeating those many discrete tasks, you are renewing what you learned years before and you may quickly be stable and appear to be a good bicycle rider.”
Tom Stevens, a disabled United States Air Force veteran, discusses learning through overcoming substance use and abuse in his talk "Learning from Addiction: So Hard to Change."
TEDxPioneerValley, an independently organized event licensed by TED, explores learning that takes place in unexpected ways, cracking open traditional notions of how learning happens. The day-long conference at Amherst College Jan. 21, 2012, is presented in collaboration with the Holyoke Community College Adult Learning Center, Amherst College, Smith College and Mount Holyoke College.
Photo by Samuel Masinter