In photography class today, we started editing images for our book, website, and exhibition. We spent the first part of class discussing small details of how we're going to make the three things happen, and spent the rest of the class looking at image selection and order. Our exhibition is early next year.

Sean and I were planning on going to main stacks to study tonight. We got dinner at la burrita and took it to the Y to eat. While we were there, steve choi called sean and informed him that some people were getting together at underhill to play football. We then changed our plans, finished our food, and went home to change into sports clothes.

Joseph went along, and we played about an hour of football at underhill. One of the soccer players there decided to join us, so we played 5 on 5. While my team was on defense, one of the opposing players tried to catch a pass with joseph guarding him. He tripped and fell, and joseph accidentally stepped on the guy's foot and sprained his ankle.

Twas the first time joseph has ever sprained his ankle in his life. I didn't think a person could live 20 years without spraining their ankle once.

After football, sean, joseph, and I went to unit 2 to study. We stayed into the morning, and then walked home. Joseph put his arms around our necks to keep from having to use his right foot, and I piggy-backed him some of the way home too.

This is the third consecutive day I've posted purely black and white photographs. I think one of the main reasons is that I've been using my point and shoot, and converting them to black and white images does away with white balancing issues that come along with using a point and shoot. I usually don't post DSLR photographs in black and white, since white balance can be adjusted well on the RAW images.

In the second photograph, the image is blurred do to hand shake, but somehow my teacher Janet's face is sharp. I think my hand shake had to have matched her head movement pretty closely for that to happen. Interesting... Almost looks like I used a weak tilt-shift lens or something.

I've only recently discovered why the little viewfinder on DSLR's is so useful. It's so small, unclear, and distorted that I didn't think it provided much utility on a camera, but recently I discovered that using it while pressing it against your face/nose allows you to frame and take photographs while avoid a good deal of hand shake. Basically, your head doesn't shake NEARLY as much as your hand, so you can virtually gain a few stops by pressing the camera to your face.

Joseph iced his ankle tonight with frozen ravioli.