day fifteen

I was out of the house much of today, spending some time with one of my best friends, and plotting some baking adventures for the upcoming weeks.  We were told we were not awesome enough to take Wilton's fondant and gum paste class, so we decided to heck with the class, bought our own supplies, and are determined to figure this out on our own.

However, I am not baking tonight, so yummy (and hopefully pretty!) cake pictures are not on today's agenda.  Instead, here is the very beginning of a craft I hope to begin and complete on Monday night.

Using kit lens 18-55mm at 18mm, manual mode, f/3.5, shutter speed 1/20 sec, ISO 800

I am taking three sewing classes over the next two weeks, since I enjoyed a basic Sewing 101 class back in December.  I was even brave enough to sew a button that came off a pair of Bill's pants two days ago, and I think that button fell off over a year ago.  This is progress for me!

Anyway, this particular, inexpensive cotton fabric was acquired at Walmart for the low, low price of $3 per yard.  Nice!  I hope it will resemble comfy pajamas more than a bolt of fabric when I come home on Monday night.  Later on next week, I will show off some nicer and pricier fabric I ordered for my next class, which will take two sessions to complete. 

Back to photography - I feel much more comfortable with working in manual mode.  I'm very glad I went with Nikon, because the control seem pretty intuitive to me.  I've been steadily making my way through Understanding Exposure, now that I finished my annual Christmastime reading of all Harry Potter books, haha.   I may mix it up with some more of the photoshop for photographers book, as well.  One thing I changed up about this picture is toning down the vibrance, which I have never had cause to do.  Unfortunately, I had pretty poor lighting, and the fluorescent bulbs really hurt this picture.