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Greetings fellow shooters! Tuesday
Ambassador Stanley, here welcoming you to another... testing… can anybody read
this, Tuesday? And no, this is not going to be like my last week’s post on Rantom.
What I am going to write about is why every student, or anyone for that matter,
should test their equipment, regardless of ever having worked with the
equipment before. However, I have seen a good majority of students doing just
that and it is an excellent thing to do because it makes you more familiar with
your equipment before tackling those shooting assignments. So if you think that
you may be the only person that pulls your equipment out of the box, puts it
together and starts tinkering with it, just know that you’re not the only one.
Although, be mindful of the equipment you are working with in order to prevent
injuries to beings or damage to equipment whether they are big or small.
Now if you are not one who
typically dives into unfamiliar territory, I am sure you are not alone. That is
okay though because you are going to school for photography after all. For some
people though, school is not enough. One thing that you could do is READ
through your manual after breaking into the package and laying out all of your
equipment to be assembled later. This should be done on day one of receiving your
package because you want to make sure that you have everything and that nothing
is broken. If you do not understand something, reach out! There is a plethora
of resources available at your disposal like PSPN on
Google+, your upcoming or present instructors and if you want fast answers then
you better resort to your most favored search engine like Google. Once you have everything all squared
away it’s time to setup and test out your equipment. Make sure everything
works! Test the highs and test the lows. Make sure your equipment is in
flawless working order because I’m sure there is nothing like returning your
faulty equipment and having to switch, stop or drop out of your class because
you did not meet the deadline. I assure you that I’m not talking from
experience.
One thing I learned through my curiosities
in life about things I had no prior knowledge of, yet having full access to
whatever it is that interested me, was in order to dig deeper about your
subject, you have to break it. No, I’m not telling you to go break your
equipment because that would be foolish and by no means is that what I meant! What
I mean is I was always one who would get a toy, get bored with it, take it
apart, study it and put it back together just to play with it again. Maybe that’s
the reason why computers had been a hobby of mine for so long because of how quickly it advanced over the years. Now you don’t necessarily have to apply
my experience to a specific subject, however, if you apply it to your life you
may find yourself subconsciously applying it to subjects that interest you as
well. Sure, I know that is a lot to ask but I do not think you would regret making the change.
Was this informative or
inspirational? Let me know in the comments below. Have you felt this before? Do
you think you are the only one? Are you getting a little freaked out because I
am getting into your head and I may possibly know what you are thinking right
now at this exact moment? Ha! Who am I
kidding? I cannot read your mind. Stay tuned next week to catch a glimpse of my
studio studies as well as my recently published work, and as always, thanks for
reading.
-Tues. Amb. Stanley
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