Getting in the swing of things!

I'm finally adjusting to the schedule at Randolph Community and how this photography program is going to work. This week we're learning how to use our light meters that were required for the class. Our professor recommended the Sekonic L308S model so I purchased one from Peace Camera in Raleigh. I tested it on a senior shoot so I'm becoming more familiar with it and Bill went over the incident and reflective modes. I played around a little bit with the flash mode on the shoot because I'm a member of www.nobsphotosuccess.com and I was practicing something mentioned there. I took the ambient reading of the subject and actually added a stop to that reading and matched my off camera flash to that. It darkened the background and really made the girl pop from the picture. This weekend I have to work some more on my gray card assignment. I stayed in the dark room from 10am-7pm Wednesday night and got all of my prints done so now I have to cut them down and arrange them on the 11x14 mat board. As for now I checked out a Mamiya medium format 645 from school to shoot Chuck's assignment "Lines". Our county fair is here this week so I'm gonna see what kind of lines I can find at the fair to shoot.