Assessments and Assignments

I haven't posted for a while so here's an update on what I have been up to.

July Assessment

One of the most important activities has been to get my Landscape work put together and submitted for the OCA's July Assessment. The submission window is mid May to mid June and I have just posted my submission today so should be no problem with the deadline. Now I have to be very patient for what could be a few months before hearing how I have done.

Assignment 3

While working on the assessment submission I didn't want to drop the ball on the P and P assignment work but this is proving a bit of an epic. Five or six buildings and up to four images means compiling up to 24 images, more images than for the first two assignments put together. I have been exploring a number of ideas and so I referred back to my tutor to get some clarification on aspects such as buildings v spaces (doesn't seem to matter much). So far I have about 20 images, 4 each from 5 locations, in a provisional selection but many of the images are devoid of people so I want to shoot some more before I make a final selection.

New PC needed

Meanwhile I ran out of disk space on my main desktop PC. I am already fairly disciplined at making backups, housekeeping and deleting old files etc so there wasn't a great deal that could be done to free up space. I have been running Vista but far from happy with it, the colour management is poor and with the regular 32 bit edition there is an inability to address enough memory, I have 4Gb physical memory but Vista will only address and use 2.8Gb of it! The old Core2 Duo processor spends much of its time flat out with image processing.

So the solution has been to order a new machine. I will finally go 64 bit with Windows 7 so it can address the 8Gb of memory that it will come with. The processor will be a quad-core i7 to cope with the demands of Lightroom and Photoshop. And disk space will be 2Tb so should last for a little while.