Hey Mr. B, if you end up taking mercy upon me. I've been so tired of everything. I have no excuse for not doing work, I've been so depressed and I've been threatened with being kicked out of the house (I took my soup upstairs so that I didn't have to eat with my mom because all she had been doing was telling me how horrible I am). I just need to pass at this point, so I am doing all I can. Again, I am super sorry. I shouldn't have waited and I don't deserve anything. But, I guess I should try anyway. And whatever happens, I'll do better next year. This is one of the hardest classes to do at home since it's a hassle for both parties to wait the 5 minutes it takes my slow internet to upload a message and for the time it takes to reply.
Anyway, on this really tight time-frame, I've been doing camera stuff. It's actually one of my passions, not trying to sound cringey, doing photography. I really love, especially with available settings such as the ones we learned with this class, (exposure i.e.) getting up at sunrise at camps and taking pictures of it. It's hard to think we as humans went from cave paintings of stick figures and big animals to going out with a box and a stick full of gunpowder to add light and then cranking out a picture, to an even smaller box with a little door that can be controlled to let in an amount of light and then a button being pressed to create a real record of anything. Cameras are a bit complex to mess with when it isn't just the phone camera. Shutter speed is not a thing I thought I'd have to worry about when my father bought me a coolpix b500 or something like that (Not worth the 200-300 dollars it is with how low-resolution the pictures seem to come out.) f-stop is also quite new to me, and it can get quite confusing when I have to edit these. Of course, there are a lot of tools to help with this, such as video tutorials, but I prefer the do-it-yourself method that you gave us last year. The website that allowed us to change all of the do-dads on the virtual camera and it showed us what the picture would look like was extremely helpful. So, overall, "camera-ing" is not that bad. In summary:
Thanks for reading, and don't go to Minneapolis. (I guess this is the final one for this year, huh... well, there's the final safety fact for sophomore year...)
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