Six Weeks Project: Orbs

Before I get started, I just want to give a shout out to my wonderful grandma who got out in the cold to come take pictures with me so I had someone to hold down the button. Also she was trooper for carrying  around my "tripod" in the parking lot. Since I wasn't able to get an actual tripod, I used my laundry basket and turned it upside down and propped the lens up with a binder.

Well I was searching for a place to take my orbs, and my grandma suggested that we go to St. Michaels because she had noticed that there weren't many lights out by the pond and stuff.

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My first attempt at orbs by myself... was kinda a fail. I really thought it was gonna be cool, but it's not in focus...which is upsetting. Anyway, the hardest part was that I kept hitting the railing. I do really want to retry this picture because I think I can do it better.

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This picture was under the gazebo right beside the pond. I really like it because the bench and stuff is exposed just enough to show what is is, but not too exposed to where it takes away from the orb. 

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I would have to this one is my favorite. I really like exposure and also how the orbs is really circular. I also like that I got the tree in it. The hard thing about this picture was that the ground was really wet and hard to take tiny steps in all of the leaves. The thing I don't like is whatever is going on in the center of the circle. 

I really enjoyed doing this assignment. I really feel like I learned a lot. :)

Catherine's Skinny Jeans

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So many assignments! I took this in the day that we all got so many assignments for the people pages. I had to take a picture of Catherine and an administrator because the story is about her never getting stopped for wearing skinny jeans.

We Won A Medal!

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This is the medal some of us won at ATPI. We were all extremely excited when we won this for the Big 72 video contest as well as the school portfolio team. When we returned back to school Smith asked me to take a picture of the medal so we would have a picture. I took it on the table in the classroom, but I wish I would have taken it on a better background. I wanted to make sure the actual medal was in focus and I think I did this pretty well.

Videos!

Found: this whole experience started when smith asked if anybody wanted to participate in the big 72 contest. So Claire, Ruth, Haley, and I all wanted to work on it. I have never really worked with video before so I was eager to try it out. We faced a lot of problems, with it being Crystal's birthday on Friday and sadie on Saturday night, it was hard finding time to shoot all the scenes. The requirements for the video were that it had to be under three minutes, have a cell phone showing the date, and the theme was found. Our original idea was to have someone searching for the perfect birthday present before the person's birthday party. However we felt it would be too difficult so we decided to do a story that was based off the Cinderella story. We began by shooting all the scenes that were in her workplace. We used the el Tigre cafe room across the hall for this. For the slippers we used Claire's swag shoes which provided us with our twist. We faced some problems when had to shoot some scenes at sadie. We needed to get Haley and Travis dancing as well as Haley loosing her shoe. This was a lot harder than we all thought it would be. There were so many people around and they would walk through our shots. But we did get in done in the end. When we were actually making the video, we have to "glitter a few terds" from the dance footage but in the end it was pretty good for everybody's first time doing a video. When we were at ATPI and they announced 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place, we were all disappointed. But then they said, "now to announce the best in show." everyone just froze and waited. When they said that Texas high had won we went a little crazy. We were all very excited that we won and that all out hard work paid off.

SWIMMMM

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While I was at this swim meet, the team got in their huddle and did the "Who ya with?" chant. I ran up on the bleachers so I could get it from above. I like how you can see Matt yelling. I'm really excited because it's being considered for the divider in the yearbook. That makes me happy. :) Anyway, I wish the chant would have lasted longer so I could have gotten some other angles, but I was only able to get about 3 by the time I got on the bleachers. 

Basketball

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When I was assigned to shoot the basketball a few days ago, Hannah asked Allison and I to make sure and get pictures of number 3. So I tried really hard to get as many pictures as I could of this girl. One thing I like about the picture is that I was able to get her face as well as the other team member. I also like that is somewhat properly exposed. Over the past few games, I realized how much I really enjoy shooting basketball. :)

Free Byrd

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Well, this was at the protest after so many people got sent home after the Free Byrd incident. The protesters  were in the Summerhill Square parking lot. Ruth, Brianna, and I went and stood in the theatre parking lot, with a long lens.