MDSNResponder no such file or directory

had a bit of a scare over the past 24 hours.  my laptop wasn't starting up.  i'd turn it on and the grey screen would come up with the apple logo and that was it, even after 45 minutes.  now i didn't sit in front of my laptop for 45 minutes watching the grey screen.  i was doing a bit of research at this time figuring out how to fix this problem.  after plowing through the support forums on apple.com i tried various things.  about a week ago i had installed some memory so maybe perhaps that was causing the problem.  so i removed the newly installed memory and turned on the laptop but it was not booting up.  that wasn't causing the problem so i put the memory back in.  i tried resetting the system management controller but that didn't work.  i tried resetting the NVRAM but again, that didn't do anything.  running the laptop through the disk utility on the home computer didn't do anything either.  at this point i decided to give up for the night because bethany was over and i know she didn't want to watch me try and fix my laptop all night.

so here we are today, woke up and went right back at trying to figure out what's wrong with my laptop.  i booted it up in verbose mode, which shows what it's doing when it's starting up, like this:

everything was looking fine until it showed a couple errors and kept repeating every 5 seconds

MDSNResponder no such file or directory

MDSNResponder no such file or directory

MDSNResponder no such file or directory

so i typed that into google and found a forum where someone was having the same problem and 

figured out how to fix it. it was an error with the file sharing on the hard drive. I must have 

accidently changed one of the settings from "read and write" to "read only" and that was causing 

the start up to freeze. the person on the forum explained how he fixed his problem while in single 

user mode, which is like verbose mode but you can input commands. his way of doing it was a bit

too confusing to me but i came up with a much easier way of fixing the problem. i turned my laptop

on in target disk mode, which basically turns the laptop into an external hard drive, and plugged it

into the home computer. i pulled up the info window for the laptop hard drive and sure enough, one

of the settings was set to "read only":

i simply reset it to "read & write," ejected the laptop from the computer, turned it off and turned it back on and sure 'nuff, it started up just fine.  this made me pretty darn happy because i was beginning to worry that i was going to need a new laptop.  i was beginning to think that maybe the hard drive died or it was a problem with the logic board or something major like that.  luckly this was not the case!

The Future Never Happened...

i've been doing a lot of thinking lately about the future.  you know, the whole "where do you see yourself in 10 years?" thing.  well as i'm getting older i'm becoming more and more sure with how i want to make money for the rest of my life.  right now i'm a part time photographer at a portrait studio in brighton.  i might not like certain elements of the job at the present time but overall, i pretty much love this job and am extremely lucky to have a job like this straight out of college.  

in my last semester in the photography program at wcc, one of my classes focused on preparing you for what's to come, wether that be assisting at a studio or starting your own photography business and such.  i geared towards the assistant part mainly because i really didn't have a clue at that time with what i wanted to do.  now here i am 5 months after graduating and i'm developing (hahaha) a better grasp on what direction i want to go in life and working at this studio has played a huge role in that.  

so what is it that i want to do?  well, pretty much what i'm doing now, except my way.  i want to run my own studio.  i want to shoot seniors, weddings, maybe do team pictures, like for little league baseball teams or something.  i also want to do my own little thing on the side,fine art  photography like random shit and landscapes and such.  maybe do an art fair here and there to display that stuff.

also, later on down the road, after i've been in business for a while, maybe go into teaching photography.

let's see how the next 10 years shape out.

Fun With Stickies!

This here has to be the most amazing videos I've ever seen!

EepyBird's Sticky Note experiment from Eepybird on Vimeo.

Lights!

There's a pretty good feeling that covers me whenever I impress my boss at the studio with different lighting setups.  Let's just say that WCC taught me well.  When I first started at the studio, I wasn't impressed with how they lit their subjects.  99% of everything they shot in the studio was shot using two strobes in front of the subject: (I can't draw, that's why i'm a photographer)

Which resulted in a shot like this:

After a couple months, my co-worker Jen left for another job and my current co-worker Laura was hired.  The first senior I shot, I shot like any other senior was shot, using the same dull front lighting.  I started shooting my third senior and I just decided that I had enough with it and decided to do something different.  So I unplugged one of the strobes and took the other one and placed it right next to my subject and placed a reflection panel on the other side:

Which resulted in this:

Judy, my boss, was extremely impressed when I showed her the following day.  "It almost looks like a painting!" she exclaimed.  I would have liked it more if I had used a hair light to separate her a little more from the background, but that the time I felt that we didn't really have a good hair light.  I figured what we had would have been overpowering.  I wanted something like what I had used at wcc, to decrease some of the intensity.  

I shot a senior yesterday and I had a "what if" moment.  I really wanted to use a hair light so I said to myself "what if I actually did use this light as a hair light?

The result was very pleasing to me:

Judy hasn't seen this one yet but I'm sure she's going to be very impressed when she does.  

I knew I was easily capable of producing images far more appealing that what was originally being done and I'm pretty proud of myself for doing something about it.  My mom says I've made a nice transition from shooting senior pictures to shooting senior portraits.

I almost got into an accident with a semi on my way home from best buy.  I was going down 94 coming up to the guy getting ready to pass him and I don't know if he was drunk or fell asleep but he starts kind of moving all over the place, suddenly going into the left lane, back to the right, then going between lanes and such... it freaked me out a little bit.

This has been one of those night where I just wanna dance around like Gil Mantera...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaUs2rOmmcM

Hands on Deck...

Every now and then I'll post a photograph of mine.

Let's begin again...

After 4 years of silence, I've come back to the blogging world but I assure you this time 'round is not going to be like how it was back then.  Why am i back?  Let's just say it'll help pass the time... and because Bethany now has one.  

In other news, Richard Wright, one of the founding members of Pink Floyd passed away today.  Very sad, really.  He died from a short battle with cancer.  He was only 65.  So young.