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<title>My RSS Feed</title><link>http://index.html</link><description>Writing on Photography</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><dc:creator>Mshawnread@gmail.com</dc:creator><dc:rights>Copyright 2009 Shawn Read</dc:rights><dc:date>2009-10-17T18:24:57-04:00</dc:date><admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://www.realmacsoftware.com/" />
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<lastBuildDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:33:21 -0500</lastBuildDate><item><title>Beautiful Available Light</title><dc:creator>Mshawnread@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>None</category><dc:date>2009-10-17T18:24:57-04:00</dc:date><link>http://page1/files/801717671372014a015d18ad234fd40b-6.html#unique-entry-id-6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://page1/files/801717671372014a015d18ad234fd40b-6.html#unique-entry-id-6</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Last week in our Wedding One module at CDIA we shot a mock wedding, and it was an excellent, albeit chaotic experience. 9 photographers, two fashion models as our bride and groom, and our teacher, the amazing Jennifer Hudson, were packed into a studio loft apartment above the school, where we shot like crazy. ...  shooter most of the time, and first shooter for a very scary 3 minutes per model and 3 minutes as a couple. ...  I wouldn't have shot it like that if I had just been nulling the meter like usual and let the camera do the thinking, and it would have been a much less interesting shot. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>On the Hunt</title><dc:creator>Mshawnread@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>None</category><dc:date>2009-10-04T21:49:59-04:00</dc:date><link>http://page1/files/671351edc8ea3d26f30bd0fdf7ac7377-5.html#unique-entry-id-5</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://page1/files/671351edc8ea3d26f30bd0fdf7ac7377-5.html#unique-entry-id-5</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[The fit bartender chick in leather shorts told me that this wasn't my local pub, and I was a bit hesitant at first to pull my my 5D, but as soon as I did I started to realize what a passport the camera was. ...  All he really wanted was us to to follow him and take high-quality snapshots of him and his friends, and to document the ambiance, if that is the word for throngs of drunk women grinding and gyrating while men ogled and drank. ...  I put my  flash up with a sto-fen on it, set the camera to AV with 2 stops under exposure compensation, f2.8, iso 3200, and took off into the club following the DJ. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Progress</title><dc:creator>Mshawnread@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>None</category><dc:date>2009-09-22T07:19:51-04:00</dc:date><link>http://page1/files/a4d12f071f59082f4c819154320ff89b-4.html#unique-entry-id-4</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://page1/files/a4d12f071f59082f4c819154320ff89b-4.html#unique-entry-id-4</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I think that the color on the water creates a definite mood, and unlike the legs in my earlier night shot, I was aware of the plane in the sky, and wanted to make it part of the shot.   I needed to make a lot of bad shots like the one below in order to get to this shot.   Once you know how, night shots are nothing difficult, but even the most difficult shots aren't that difficult once you know how. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Proof postive of Improvement</title><dc:creator>Mshawnread@gmail.com</dc:creator><category>None</category><dc:date>2009-09-21T23:26:54-04:00</dc:date><link>http://page1/files/17772cab80fbf0d548436b4d01f2d664-3.html#unique-entry-id-3</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://page1/files/17772cab80fbf0d548436b4d01f2d664-3.html#unique-entry-id-3</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I was pretty proud of it, and I printed a large copy and  hung it on my classroom wall, where students told me it was great even though I'm sure many of them knew it wasn't. ...  I've gotten a lot better since I took this shot in 2001, but I think like most students of any creative endeavor I feel that I haven't improved nearly enough.   Revisiting these old shots packed away in an digital shoebox of old photos, makes me feel like improvement is an actual tangible thing that I am capable of doing. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Introductory Navelgazing</title><dc:creator>Mshawnread@gmail.com</dc:creator><dc:subject>Photo Blog</dc:subject><dc:date>2009-09-13T10:05:16-04:00</dc:date><link>http://page1/files/2e4da10096b086b8fcbfbb6f3d8987fa-1.html#unique-entry-id-1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://page1/files/2e4da10096b086b8fcbfbb6f3d8987fa-1.html#unique-entry-id-1</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[He moved to Indiana in the 1920's and set up a studio which he ran, first with his brother, then with my father, for a good 3 quarters of the 20th century until he passed away....  I'd never been there, never even thought about going there before, but it seemed like most of the schools I was interested in were all there, in and around Boston, and all only a few miles away from where my Grandfather studied photography about a 100 years earlier. 

...	I put up the picture I took that morning up (with some help from CS4) as the first photograph on my blog, not because I think it's good, but because for me it represents that connection. ]]></content:encoded></item></channel>
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