This morning we started off our Junction experience shooting wildflowers in the field just across from the Administration building. There were lady bugs everywhere! I have never seen so many lady bugs in my life. I was lucky enough to not only find a caterpillar munching on flowers in the field but to also have a butterfly land on a flower right where I was shooting. Shooting in macro is a lot of fun although it is extremely hard to maintain sharp critical focus with a telephoto lens and extension tubes. It's hard to keep a lens that is nearly two feet long stable.
After lunch today we had great light for portraits so Nick and Alison posed for the class. I did take a few digital photos of Nick and Alison which I will post later tonight. We also did a shooting test to see the slowest shutter speed in which we could handhold a camera zoomed in at 200 mm and maintain sharp critical focus. Sadly the slowest shutter speed I can achieve this is 1/500 of a second. But keep in mind this is really difficult to do and I have hand shake to begin with.
After dinner tonight we will be light painting a church while shooting with extended exposure. So far I am thoroughly enjoying my Junction experience. All of the girls in my class are in my dorm and we have become a close knit group already. Believe it or not, we turned the lights out at 10:00 p.m. last night! A new thing for me lately since I have been going to bed after midnight, but luckily I was able to go to sleep and get my last full nights sleep. Well gotta go chow down on dinner, will write more later!
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