PHOTOGRAPHY Chapters 1 & 2

Lately I seem to be doing more organizing of my study time than actually studying!  Put the book on the table, get some coffee, check the forum, drink coffee, and look up flash cards.  Then I flip through the book, more coffee, schedule a webinar, make a new pot of coffee, go print flash cards, cut out flash cards, figure out where to keep the flash cards and so on!  So it’s been a while since I had to study anything and I’m not surprised that I work this way!  In fact it is no surprise that I have not really gotten into my camera settings either because there are so many different things to play with on that thing!  I think it may be because I have imaginary ADHD (Anything Difficult is Healed by Distraction) and when I approach the thought of smaller numbers meaning bigger things such as F-stops ISO’s and shutter speeds, I go in reverse as well!  My husband Jim reminds me that it will become second nature to think on these things this way and also to think in fractions!  OK & Yes I know that’s true!  A 125 speed really is 1/125^th of a second!  AaaGGHH!  All those little things really do help when I finally get down to it and my favorite tool is a yellow highlighter, which marks up my textbook quite well, giving my right hand a job to do and my eyes a pretty color to look at!  Later I go to the PHOTOGRAPHY 9^th edition companion website to take one of three chapter tests!  I actually did pretty well and my mind is slowly acknowledging that I am actually getting this stuff! The fun part of my diversion during the first two chapters was finding my Father in Law’s old View Camera; a massive black box that makes me so thankful for the word DIGITAL.  I would love to have seen the images that came from it!  I am positive that Chapter 3 will go a little smoother… But right now I think I need more coffee!