Phew. Ok, let me start out by saying OH MY GOD…I just took my midterm for photography and it was brutal! There were only 20 questions, but it seems like none of the stuff that he went out of his way to drill into our heads during lectures by saying, “This will be on the midterm!” was. It was way more technical than I thought it would be too. That said, I think I at least pulled a C and this test only counts for 25% of our grade so I think I’m still in good shape.
After the midterm, we did critiques of the photos that we’ve managed to print. I had at least two more pictures done than everyone else. The problem is that even if a print took me 3 or 4 hrs. to get done, every single one of them had “issues” that I could go in and fix if I wanted to. I really don’t know what I should do. I could go to the dark room tomorrow for 4 or 5 hrs. and probably reprint every single picture I’ve done to this point, but I don’t know if I can stand it. It almost makes me want to cry when I think about all the hours I’ve already put in.
What pisses me off is that most of the suggestions he made had to do with cropping the image further and in every case but one, the other teacher was there helping me make the decisions. UGH. I will definitely go in tomorrow and try to reprint the one of Erin I have that I cleaned the negative and one other assignment that I haven’t tried yet. We’ll see how I feel as to whether I attempt to fix the other prints.
In other news, I had a pretty good weekend. I know it seems like a never ending saga, but the boy isn’t moving out of state now. He went to an interview and he didn’t like the company so he decided against it. I picked him up from the airport and spent Friday night with him, but came home pretty early on Sat.
Sat. night I just went out to dinner with some friends and chilled a bit. Yesterday I went to miniature golf and bowling with some friends. It was way fun! I did sign in briefly last night while I was studying for my test, but didn’t really get much action on the phones. Other than going to the dark room during the daytime, I can’t really afford to be signed out much this week so I will probably be pretty easy to get a hold of!
I’ll be working on that story of what happened with me and Erin last weekend too. I hope to be done with that by tomorrow evening!
I’ll leave you with a little funny story. This happened to me last Friday when I was on my way to the airport from school. I stopped at a fast food place for a diet soda because I was feeling a bit tired and wasn’t in the mood for another coffee. I noticed that there was a fruit cup on the menu but no picture of it anywhere, so I asked the woman taking my order what kind of fruit was in it. Here’s the conversation:
Me: “Can you tell me what kind of fruit is in the fruit cup?”
Her: “I don’t know.”
silence
Me: “Ok, well can you please ask someone?”
silence…static…background noise of people talking…about a minute goes by.
Her: “Can I help you?”
Me: “Um yeah, I was waiting for you to tell me what kind of fruit is in the fruit cup.”
silence…static…background noise of people talking…another minute or so goes by.
Her: “Can you drive to the window?”
I drive to the window and as I pull out, I see her arm protruding from the window and she’s holding a clear plastic cup that is full of fruit. She pretty much shoves it in my face and says, “There.”
I check out the fruit, which looks pretty gross, and tell her that I’ll pass. I almost can’t stop myself from laughing though because I’m thinking to myself, “Holy shit, she doesn’t know what kind of fruit that is!!!!”
So let’s do a little test, shall we? Here are pictures of the four types of fruit that were in the cup. Can YOU identify them?!
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