Melbourne Cup

Saw some random lady in the park today waving around the Melbourne Cup. The race is not on for another month.

Bob

EV +1

I got into a heated discussion with a camera whiz kid from JB Hi-Fi today. The discussion was over the exposure compensation function on digital cameras and what exactly it did. When set to auto mode, Whiz Kid believed that turning the exposure compensation dial on a digital camera was a 'post' process. Just like fixing the levels in Photoshop, it did nothing to alter shutter speed and aperture settings. He believed it 'just made the screen brighter or darker.' I told him it wasn't a 'post' process at all. When shooting in auto mode, changing exposure compensation actually does alter either aperture or shutter speed settings. It's the only way an image can get darker or brighter besides changing the ISO.

If I had remembered to point out that an exposure compensation dial existed on film cameras long before digital cameras, Photoshop and this 'post' business I could have won the discussion right in the shop.

Zines

Big day tomorrow. I spent the last few days hand making 32 copies of my two zines in parparation for the Museum of Contemporary Art's annual zine fair. There's still something really great and satisfying about the hand made. Sometime I wish my own art practice was less technologically driven. I hope people like my zines.

Do You Wink At Dogs?

$7.25

The money I found on the street this week while looking for things to photograph.

Waiting at Ōtautahi Airport

Missed

I ran up the stairs tonight to discover I had missed not only one, but two trains simultaneously. Both were stopping at my station.

Catching A Rainbow