May 29, 2006

• BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU START!!!

  Well, we are closing in on getting our studio ready. It has been way more work than we thought it would be, but we are SO EXCITED!!

  What started with the studio has now expanded into our entire back yard. We realized that we had many places in our yard that would be perfect for pictures, so we have taken out several trees, yards of ground cover and trimmed away anything that moves…

  When we are done, and have someone come to our studio, not only will we will be able to take great indoor studio pictures, but will have at least three outdoor settings we can use, and I’m sure we’ll “sculpt” more into our yard as time goes on.

  This week the studio is getting a different initiation. Our son, Brian is having his 18th birthday party starting monday night. Since we are waitiing for our lights and some other backdrop equipment to arrive, the studio is sitting for a few days, so it’s been turned into a sound studio.

  

  Brian moved his drums out there, and we brought the piano we have into the room. (we only have it for a couple more days, as its on eBay…)

  His cousin Tyler plays drums, and his other cousin Juli plays the piano and they both coming. Two of his friends play bass and there are others with musicial gifts so it will be exciting!! We already talked to the neighbors to make sure we wouldnt be distrubing anyone – they all work or are gone during the day on Tuesday so they should be able to wail away with no worries.

  When I looked at the pics I took of the studio today, I realized there there was something creepy going on in our studio – There was a mysterious figure who was apparantly playing the drums. 

  

  I got Kerri – i told her that I thought someone must have died in the garage ‘cuz there was a figure that kept showing up in my pics. She came over to the computer to see what I was talking about and then realized I was messin with her.

  For those who want to know how I did this – the light in the room was low, I wanted to keep my ISO low (100) and I wanted to get as much in focus as possible, so I pushed the aperture to f11, which meant that my exposure was around 6 seconds. Plenty of time for me to walk into the shot with my flash unit in my hand. I sat down at the drum set, pointed it at my head and flashed myself.  

  We’ll post some pics from the jam session! Pray for us – the invasion starts Monday at 5:00 PM!!

  Mark

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