Photography Class

Hey hey. I thought I'd put a few pictures up for what I've been doing in my digital photography class. Last week wasn't my favorite, we had to take pictures of lines, shapes, and textures. It was abstract and I just don't really think like that, I guess. But, we finally made our way over to less abstract things like.. Rule of Thirds. I suppose I just instinctively knew about it, as no one had taught it to me before, and I've just studied photos and noticed the trend over time. My biggest challenge in photography is definitely taking pictures of buildings, maybe it's just their large scale, but I have always had trouble framing my shots properly. I took pictures of a bunch of different places around B/CS, but these two are my favorite. I'm pokey when it comes to Photoshop, and didn't get around to fixing up the other places.. so maybe I'll post those at some point as well. I have to go up to campus to have access to Photoshop, so it's kinda difficult to edit right now.


I love both of these, but could only turn in one picture for my "Place" photo, so I turned in the one of the house. While I really love the Feed Co. photo, I was afraid the building itself was too dark, but the sky looks awesome! I woke up super-duper early Saturday to go take photos, and I must say, morning light is somewhat tricky to master but it's so soft and pretty. I used some of my Photoshop savvy to edit out a icky handicap sign that was a bit distracting, and I edited out the top of some rose bushes that were in front of the building. The clone stamp tool is simply amazing, you guys!

As for the house, I found it on a random trip to Bryan beforehand (I even instagrammed it!), but I decided to go back because it's probably the prettiest house I've ever seen. All of that detail and craftsmanship makes me swoon! I turned this photo in simply because of the lighting. I tried to frame the shot so that the focal point was the turret (I think that's the term), and I got lucky with the morning sun just rising up and lighting it up perfectly. I also used the clone stamp tool here to edit out a white Suburban, and I tried to make the tan building as inconspicuous as possible by editing out windows and a weird shed. 


Say hello to my "Thing" photo. My Chuck's randomly were in my car when I was out taking pictures on this Saturday morning, so I decided, why not take pictures of my shoes? They're one of my favorite things! I hardly edited this photo at all, just cropped it a teenie bit. The lighting was pretty much perfect, so light and soft, and I secretly love the random bokeh in the background. I played around with Manual Focus, something I hardly ever do, but it was fun. 

Next week is Lighting, I'm super stoked, but also a bit worried since it does take a lot of time to plan out and shoot for this class. If it was summer, I'd be all for it, but since I'm taking other classes, they come before this one since it's an elective. I must say, it's been an experience taking an art class. I'm so used to business school and talking about boring things, haha. 

Safari Kristina

Okay, so maybe I look like I'm about to take you on a safari adventure.. not like that wouldn't be awesome or anything, amirite? Honestly though, I'd love to go on a safari, but I don't think it'll ever happen. There are just so many other places I want to go first. Anyway, this post is totally not about safari adventures, even if my outfit has a certain tour guide feel to it. I scored these J. Crew sandals this past January at Plato's Closet for like.. $4, I felt like I found the Holy Grail or something. They're a semi-awkward color, but I adore them none-the-less. And the shorts are probably the most comfortable shorts I own; Curtis got them for me when he was in San Francisco a couple of summers ago. The man has good taste!

The long weekend wasn't exactly long, in fact, it went by entirely too quickly. I won't complain about it too much though, I've got many exciting things coming up in the next few weeks. After I get past this last round of exams before finals, I have a bridal shower and a bridal tea party (how awesome is that?! I want to wear a cool hat.. we'll see if that happens) this weekend, and then next Friday is my Aggie Ring Day. Oh dear y'all, I'm so excited to get that little gold ring. I've been waiting for that day since.. well, since forever it seems  like now. I'll probably do a more detailed post about the Aggie Ring once I actually get mine, but I'm counting down the days until it's on my finger! 

I know this post isn't exactly exciting, but I've just got so much studying to do, it's all I can really think to talk about right now. If you must know, I'm truly enjoying both of the classes I have exams in this week, so that makes studying for them a bit easier. One class is over international business, which is automatically fascinating to me. I just love all things international, and it's so fun that my professor has that same sort of passion. The second class is an intro to management class, doesn't sound too appealing, but it's actually really interesting to me.. and since I'm thinking about going to grad school for HR, it's pretty important for me to know this stuff. 

Hope I didn't bore y'all too much with all my school talk.. oh, and I've started watching Justified. I know, I know, I said I wasn't going to watch a lot of television over the long weekend, but I kind of became obsessed with it, oh, and Timothy Olyphant isn't too bad to look at either (I think it's the hat..). If you'd like, you can read this entire post in a Kentuckian accent, since that's how I've been talking to Curtis for the past couple of days (it is entirely too easy for me to slip into a Southern accent.. I probably sound absolutely ridiculous though!) Does anyone else do that? Speak in different accents because you've either been watching a show with it, or you've been around someone who has a different accent than you? I do it all the time. Don't even get me started on my British accent.. Okay, I'm done rambling. I've gotten addicted to yet another TV show, this is becoming a problem people! 

Linking up with: Plane Pretty, My Greatest Hits, Still being Molly

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Top: Old Navy (exact)

Shorts: H&M (similar)

Belt: Abercrombie & Fitch (similar)

Sandals: J. Crew via Plato's Closet 

Nail Color: Bikini So Teeny by Essie

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