Im still learning new things part 2

Illustrator is a very powerful tool, only recently have i exposed myself to alot more of this wonderful package. It creates the ever so popular vector images.

One interesting tool within Illustrator (or whichever vector program you use) is the gradient mesh tools.

This is the tutorial that i used today to learn the basics of this tool. whats interesting about this tool is the advanced level of shading that can be done using it in illustrator. instead of working on layers and layers of shading for each shade, Use this to get a gradiented fill instead.

there are some impressive examples from this site below
www.lifeinvector.com
heres another link from creativebits.org to further this subject
http://creativebits.org/2005/02/ai-gradient-mesh-tool-you-never-use.html

Im still learning new things part 1

The * button on my camera is the metering lock.

Say the subject is backlit what you need to do is to meter lock the somewhere shadier to trick the camera into over exposing the back ground to bring up the details on the subject. i havent put it into practice yet but it sounds relatively easy to include this into my "taking photo process".

frame. set aperture/shutter. meter lock. compose. focus. recompose. shoot
any one with "taking photo process" tips are welcome to comment