Entries from March 2008

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

Easter snow

When I looked out of the kitchen window while preparing the Easter ham, I saw it was snowing. It would be a huge exaggeration to say that I was more than moderately surprised. It was only last week I wrote Leah that in Hungary March is ultra-crazy: bright sunshine in the morning, heavy rain or [...]

Monday, March 17th, 2008

Visiting my nephew

Although I’ve been being an uncle for several weeks, I did not have the opportunity to go to Eger to visit my sister. Last weekend we payed her a short visit with Mum.

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

Back to the scene of childhood

We had quite enough of the photo course. We were able to learn a lot, and the teachers were fairly good professional photographers. Their course-keeping skills, however, got worse and worse each weekend. There was a small group of students, spoiled bullies who always felt themselves above the tasks given by the teacher. They always [...]

Saturday, March 1st, 2008

Light study

Very little room (and time) for creativity, and a lot of useful bits of information — that was the balance of today’s photo course.

This day was about the light modifiers — reflectors, grids, umbreallas, softboxes and dishes. We had to make photos on the entire scene, and two closer ones on the models to be [...]