It’s still snowing here in Delaware. I’m off from teaching for the third day in a row and I’ve been getting a little antsy.
My new lens, a Canon 50 mm 1.4, arrived yesterday so I’ve had some fun taking pictures with it and processing them using the new set of presets that are out from Totally Rad Actions that are called Totally Rad Lightroom Presets.
The minute I get up from the dining room table, Jasper jumps into my chair. He waits until I warm it up for him.
But the moment we are settled on the couch with our laptops, he makes his way over and climbs up so he can press his face against the heat vent.
It’s tricky to take Jasmine’s picture. She doesn’t stay still very often so I usually have to distract her. Sometimes Peter will make faces at her. That’s a pretty good distraction technique.
This is her favorite corner in the house because she loves to rub her head against the corner. Looks like it hits the spot perfectly.
I do love snow but we are both getting cabin fever.
The Totally Rad Lightroom Presets are really easy to use. I haven’t used very many of them yet, but on these I used: A Beginning:Lite, a mixture of the Auto presets like Exposure, Contrast, Tone, and White Balance, Eddie Would Go, and Vignette: Sloppy Seconds.
Something I like about Lightroom presets versus actions in Photoshop is that you don’t have to think as much about adjusting the opacity and playing with the layers. There are different strengths of many of the presets but you can quickly see in the preview panel in Lightroom how the various presets would look before you apply them or you can simply use it and undo it if you don’t like it.
I just realized I didn’t plan for anything to eat for lunch today so I’m not sure what we are going to put together yet. We ended up having one of the dinner meals, which was a sausage, onion, and cheese breakfast braid for breakfast, which means that we are also short one dinner recipe. Normally this wouldn’t be a big deal since we live right next to a grocery store, but there is currently a state of emergency which means we can’t drive over. Technically we could walk over but the roads are most likely pretty bad. I think it’s going to depend on how hungry we get and how badly we don’t want to eat TV dinners.
