Whew off to the races. Within the hour I should be heading out to go and photograph the municipal election. Exciting, not really, but hey I get to say I worked during election time.
I finally got paid though my boss post-dated one of my cheques and because I am a contractor, he can do that. Oh well, it's only a few days until I am able to deposit it and I just invoiced him again. Hurah for money.
My other boss phoned me and actually left me a message telling me I am doing citizenship photos wrong. (We take government id photos at my work as well). Except, she is the one who is wrong. The measurements just changed to 53mm high from 45mm high and she left me a long, preachy message about how I did some woman's photos wrong and how I should call her to clarilfy how to do them. Boy is she going to feel like an ass when I bring in the new specs from the government website and she is the one who is wrong- and when the photos she told me I did wrong come back because she trimmed them down too much.
Our camera is just a giant pain in the ass. It's older than I am- and for a camera, that's damn old. It is a double lense polaroid specifically meant for government id purposes. It looks like this;
And it shoots more than one photo at once. The problem is that the second photo is severely off center to the right. The government does not take off center photos. So we have to compensate by lining everything off slightly off center to the right- (against all instincts to turn it to the left). The problem is that it's practically an exact science to get it so that both photos will be reasonably centered.
Basically someone has to crack open the piece of crap camera and wiggle the mirror back in place properly. My bosses would kill me if I did it and though I'm pretty positive I could fix it, I really don't want to break it. It needs to be replaced badly. The battery latch is broken so I have to jam the batteries back in every few shots and add even more tape onto the already large lump keeping the batteries in.
Then there's the fact that the aperature settings are all screwed up, so if you're not caucasian, your chances of getting a perfect photo the first time around are highly unlikely because we can't get your skin tone right because I never know when the aperature setting will actually be accurate.
Then there's got to be the cost of all the film we throw out because of the camera.
If all of this isn't enough to make us get a replacement camera, I do not know what is. Yet it's never the camera's fault- just mine and everyone elses.
On another topic- much happier that is. Magazine semester is starting soon. I'm going for Art Director again for the athletic magazine, so wish me luck.
Off to the races (however slow they are).
I finally got paid though my boss post-dated one of my cheques and because I am a contractor, he can do that. Oh well, it's only a few days until I am able to deposit it and I just invoiced him again. Hurah for money.
My other boss phoned me and actually left me a message telling me I am doing citizenship photos wrong. (We take government id photos at my work as well). Except, she is the one who is wrong. The measurements just changed to 53mm high from 45mm high and she left me a long, preachy message about how I did some woman's photos wrong and how I should call her to clarilfy how to do them. Boy is she going to feel like an ass when I bring in the new specs from the government website and she is the one who is wrong- and when the photos she told me I did wrong come back because she trimmed them down too much.
Our camera is just a giant pain in the ass. It's older than I am- and for a camera, that's damn old. It is a double lense polaroid specifically meant for government id purposes. It looks like this;
And it shoots more than one photo at once. The problem is that the second photo is severely off center to the right. The government does not take off center photos. So we have to compensate by lining everything off slightly off center to the right- (against all instincts to turn it to the left). The problem is that it's practically an exact science to get it so that both photos will be reasonably centered.
Basically someone has to crack open the piece of crap camera and wiggle the mirror back in place properly. My bosses would kill me if I did it and though I'm pretty positive I could fix it, I really don't want to break it. It needs to be replaced badly. The battery latch is broken so I have to jam the batteries back in every few shots and add even more tape onto the already large lump keeping the batteries in.
Then there's the fact that the aperature settings are all screwed up, so if you're not caucasian, your chances of getting a perfect photo the first time around are highly unlikely because we can't get your skin tone right because I never know when the aperature setting will actually be accurate.
Then there's got to be the cost of all the film we throw out because of the camera.
If all of this isn't enough to make us get a replacement camera, I do not know what is. Yet it's never the camera's fault- just mine and everyone elses.
On another topic- much happier that is. Magazine semester is starting soon. I'm going for Art Director again for the athletic magazine, so wish me luck.
Off to the races (however slow they are).
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