Working on getting better at manual mode

And it's nice not to have to travel for interesting subjects.  I have dozens of shots of indian blankets taken with varying shutter speeds and varying apertures.  (With varying degrees of success.)

It seems to be the custom for the photographer to note the ISO, the shutter speed and the aperture, but in this case that might imply a level of professionalism that I am far from having achieved.  Anyway, if you care, you know how to find out.

Another sign of the times

 

Walmart, Friday afternoon. Not all the masks are on clearance, but the fancier ones like these are.

Say what?

So here are the statistics from the past week.  Looks a bit off to me.

Traditional Friday Cat Blogging from Tabby's Place: Bellamy

 

Bellamy

Nora has something on her mind

 What is it?  She's not telling.

At long last

I've owned a Canon T5i camera for five or six years, and in all that time I've never felt comfortable using it.  The manual was dry, and the books that claimed to make it easier never did.  I should have been referencing YouTube all along.  This afternoon, I found a video that made "focusing squares" make sense.  Press the outside round button at the top right of the camera body, use the wheel to select which square, and then press the inside round button to focus.  Now I get it.  Anything that will get me out of complete auto-mode will be a big help.  Now when the auto-focus insists on the twig in front of the subject I want, I know how to override it.

Red's Lasting Lesson

 

For some reason, the IFRAME link doesn't work with the link that contains the actual time the relevant portion begins, so it begins here at the 68-second mark.

In my days working in the business of entertainment, it helped to remember this bit from the Red Skelton shows when I was a kid.  A bit of wisdom at a young age in someone who didn't demonstrate much of it back then.  

He began his monologue with "I feel good tonight."  At age 12, I took it at face value.  Later in life, when preparing for my presentations, I understood that nobody feels that good all the time, and that what he said was probably partly for the audience and partly as a reminder to him.  

Years later, when leading conference calls, I'd answer the inevitable "How are you?" with "I'm having a good day."  Thanks, Red.