The First Assignment...Failure! Mutiny on the PC's! Pun Intended.

The first assignment in Digital Photography was to shoot a series of indoor/outdoor photographs using the "White Balance" button on our camera. This little feature was something that I had no knowledge of before last Thursday. I have had my camera for a little over a year, so I am a little embarrassed admitting this. A very useful little tool; which corrects the color in your picture depending on the light source available. After playing with this feature all weekend and shooting some beautiful photographs in Hawn State Park near St. Genevieve, MO, I felt it was time to start on the assignment.

The actual assignment itself was easy to accomplish, and I felt like I learned a lot about both my camera and lighting. I also felt like I got some great photos out of the deal. Then it was time for the technical part, I got the pics off my Compact Flash card uploaded into Photoshop Elements 4. Then decided before I was going to post them onto the Internet I was going to whittle down the grouping by eliminating the less than perfect pics.. This is where I ran into trouble. I somehow, instead of deleting an individual file, I deleted the entire folder. Oh my GOD! My limited knowledge of computers is no help to me at this stage! I looked everywhere I could think of. I found something called "proofs"?? in Photoshop, and I can see the picture, but when I try to retrieve the file the only answer I get is 'NO'.

So no, I did not complete the first assignment.

MarinaB
August 31, 2009

This is just a trial run.