Tuesday 4/12/16 week 2

James and I got much more pictures yesterday than we did today. We had big ambitions but bad luck. Our day began when I picked James up from his house at ten o’clock. Our first stop was a bridge over Freedom Parkway in not the best part of town. I timidly parked my car on the street and we walked onto the bridge. The view from the bridge was excellent for photographs and genuinely a nice place to be. I used a wide lens, a fifty, and a telephoto but my best images came from the fifty. The fifty-millimeter lens was the correct level of zoom to perfectly frame the two tallest buildings in downtown. Our next stop after the bridge was the Porsche headquarters by the airport where we hoped to get a good view of planes landing. My hope was that we could use our telephoto lenses to get a good picture of the puff of smoke that comes from the planes wheels when it lands. However, when we drove up to the Porsche HQ they told us that we needed an appointment. From there we went to the airport to see if we could try and get a better view there. No such thing happened. After this massive failure we gave up and went to lunch. While we were eating it dawned on us that we were finished shooting for the project. If we figure out that we need more photos while we are editing then we can go out and get more. We drove back to James’s house as a sense of relief washed over us; we were finally done taking pictures. At James’s house we downloaded Photoshop and Lightroom on his computer and began sorting through our photos. I compiled 175 thirty-second exposures of the stars into StarStax, a program that specializes in star trails photos. The image turned out well and I’m pretty sure it’s going in the book. The last thing I had to do was but all my images in separate folders on my external hard drive. After half an hour that was done and I headed home.