Day 36: How Does THAT Happen?

Hola, mis amigos! How's your Saturdays treating you? Well, I hope. I'm here after another day at work. So I had to get creative today. Here's the first image to help set up what I did.

1/13 sec. exposure at F/4. ISO 400.
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You might remember the stove top that's on the right part of this picture from my previous post. This shot was also taken through that mirror. I actually get a little nauseous looking at this one. It's just disorienting. I jumped up on the counter and got really close to the mirror and then just started taking photos. Most of them were coming out like this--neat perspectives, but nothing extraordinary. Then I glanced over at the counter and saw a neat pepper crusher/dispenser thingy. I placed it on the floor in an area with tiling, and zoomed in so that the only things visible was the floor and the pepper thingy.

1/8 sec. exposure at F/5. ISO 400.
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I really like how this one came out. I'm a little bummed that the pepper thingy is a bit blurry, but overall, a pretty cool shot, in my opinion. I love the way that mirrors help things defy gravity. By shooting through the mirror I was able to make this seem like it was coming straight out of a vertical plane.

Any-hoo, that's about it. I picked up some film and batteries for the film camera I just got. I couldn't figure out how to load the film and accidentally rewound it all the way back in the canister without using it. Awesome, right? Yes, I am a graduate student. Luckily I picked up a two-pack so I was able to figure it out with the second roll. I took a couple of photos of Molly, but obviously can't tell how they came out. I figure I'll try and take a couple of photos every now and then with that one, and then I'll get it developed and get them scanned in to share. Maybe that can be a special day when I'm stuck and couldn't shoot (though, I figured I would have certainly had a day like that already and I haven't, so who knows...). But for now, enjoy your evenings. Tomorrow's Super Bowl Sunday. I could care less about any of it, honestly. I'll be going to a friend's house to watch, so I'm sure I'll try and take some pictures during that. Maybe wait until people start getting drunk so I can share it with the world. Heh heh heh. Not really. That's inappropriate. Like your face! Ohhh snap!