{"id":4026,"date":"2010-05-14T08:55:04","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T13:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=4026"},"modified":"2010-05-14T09:30:55","modified_gmt":"2010-05-14T14:30:55","slug":"back-to-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2010\/05\/14\/back-to-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Back to school!"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span> am very excited and a little bit nervous, just about the same way I’ve felt every single time I’ve headed back to school throughout my life. Tonight is the first class of my “Beyond the Basics<\/a>” digital photography class at the School of Photographic Arts, Ottawa (SPAO). Eek!<\/p>\n

Although I’ve always loved taking pictures, I’ve only taken one other formal photography class before, and that was very much a course for beginners — learning about aperture and shutter speed and ASA (the precursor to ISO for film cameras) and some very basic compositional stuff.<\/p>\n

I was cleaning out some boxes the other day and I found the slides I took for that old photography course with my dad’s Canon AE1 SLR. Slides! They seem almost as antiquated as my manual typewriter! I used to have to go out and shoot my assignment for the week, then go down to Ginn on Bank Street and get the roll of slide film developed, and hope like hell I got at least a couple of shots on each roll of 36 worth handing in. It was just on the cusp of the digital era, and nobody had digital SLRs back then. I didn’t even have a digital point-and-shoot until 2003, and my precious D40 came into our lives in 2007.<\/p>\n

How quickly things change! Granted, it’s been about a decade since that course, but it’s absolutely dizzying to think about the innovations in photography since then. For tonight’s class, I have to bring my camera and lenses and memory cards (plural!) and cables, but also my laptop. No more slides!<\/p>\n

I was poking through the old slides and laughing. I could tell just by looking through them what the lesson of the week was: depth of field here, freezing action there, rule of thirds on this one. Most of them were not even worth keeping, except for the retro charm of having some slides in my collection.<\/p>\n

I’ve come a long way, photographically speaking, from those days. I’m really loving taking pictures right now, and I’m looking forward to some critical class work to sharpen my skills. Of course, the opportunity to get out of the house and head down into the Market on a Friday night for three months through the spring and summer isn’t too bad of a deal, either!<\/p>\n

If you could, what kind of course would you like to take? Cooking, interior design, photography, pottery? Something a little more unusual? And, more importantly, why don’t you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am very excited and a little bit nervous, just about the same way I’ve felt every single time I’ve headed back to school throughout my life. Tonight is the first class of my “Beyond the Basics” digital photography class at the School of Photographic Arts, Ottawa (SPAO). Eek! Although I’ve always loved taking pictures, … Continue reading “Back to school!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4026"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4031,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4026\/revisions\/4031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}