Heather's Ring

ISO: 200   f/1.8   1/2000 sec.   50mm lens

I'm pretty sure I took this picture for the online newspaper, but it could have been print..i dont really remember. Wynne was doing a story over Heather and how she wears her dad's wedding ring as a necklace. She started wearing it after her dad died this summer. Smith wanted me to use the new 50mm lens to make the background all "bok-a-ey" (spell check?) Amy wanted me to get really close and get the ring in focus. I think the picture satifies this request. I made the background a little darker so the ring would pop and be the main focus.

Swim!

 ISO: 500   f/2.5   1/160 sec  Macro lens -_-
So I think I was just getting gear really fast because I accidently got the macro lens unstead of the 50mm. Dumb. but it wasn't that bad. I took this picture of Josh and I didn't think it was too bad. The rule of thirds is good but I don't think its very sharp. It is really hard not to get the typical swim picture.. especially when they only come up for like .2 seconds. However, I thought this was a tad different because of the angle and such.

 

ISO: 500   f/2.5    1/400   Macro lens -_-
So this is one of those typical swim pictures. I think this was during the butterfly race. Like the one above, it's in focus and at a different angle which is good. However, it's still not one of those amazing pictures. I want to shoot swim atleast one more time because I'm determined to get a really good yet different swim picture.

Race for the Cure

 ISO: 1000   f/4.0    1/1000sec.   70-200 lens
I took this photo before the race when Ezry was filming the cross country team yelling something. I thought it might be a cool picture so I took it. I wish I wouldn't have been so close because I feel it doesn't tell a very good story because it's kinda tight. Also, there is a lot of head room and I cut off their feet. 

***when I was writing this at home, I accidentally deleted the picture but I'll put it back next week. 

 

 ISO: 100    f/4.0    1/1000sec.   70-200 lens
With this picture, I tried to be all "photojournalismy" and tell a story but it didn't work very well. The shadows in this picture are definitely distracting; especially on her face. The lady got really close before I saw her and so the picture was kinda tight. It was really hard to get people walking because everyone was so close. I was only able to get the people on the outside and most of the time, somebody walked in front of the camera right when I would take a picture. 

ISO: 100 f/4.0 1/1000sec. 70-200 lens

All the cross country team was at the race. Since the "cheerleaders" weren't doing much of anything, I made sure to get some pictures of the runners (even though I didn't get any of Autumn..who won. -_-) anyway, i liked this picture because the runners were framed. I was also excited because it was in focus.

 

Madison Maynard

 ISO: 1000   f/4.0   1/30sec

ISO: 1000   f/4.0    1/30sec

So today I took this picture of Madison for Amy since she was sick. It is for a feature story on the online newspaper. Potter wanted her doing the splits with her head propped on her hands in front of her. Claire and I wanted to take it on the blue mats in the gym so it would give the illusion of being at the actual gym. Once we scoped out the gym, we went to get Madison. When we got everything set up, we asked her if she could do the splits Potter wanted. However, she told us her splits weren't that good and asked us if she could do the pose above. We told her she could as long as her face was in the direction of us. When we first set up the mat (picture 1) we had it close to the brick wall but she didn't pop off the page enough so we turned it around (picture 2) which worked better. and it mad it "boka-ey" (spell check?) 

Natalie's Notes

A little over a week ago, Natalie Copland was in a terrible four wheeler accident. When I was walking in the hall, Morgan Williams (yearbooker) stopped me and asked if I could take pictures of the notes they were writing Natalie. Not very many people were writing when I went to take pictures so it was kinda difficult to be creative. The top picture is of the note that someone wrote giving directions of what was happening. The bottom picture is of Dawson who was writing a note to her. I tried to be really creative when taking these pictures but it didn't work very well.

Btw, I went to Natalie's yesterday (the 17th) and I saw all the notes that were glued onto a string. It was really sweet and there were a lot in the end. :)

Plan

       So there's this picture that I really want to take. I think I'm going to do it Wednesday, if a dancer can help me out. I would like to go to the theatre and have a dancer doing different poses across the stage like she's dancing but I want to light her by painting with light. But in the background I want a girl who can't dance (like broken leg or something) standing there all sad and stuff. but if i can't get that to look normal, I'll just do the dancer. I want lights shining either towards the camera from the back of the stage or at the bottom of the stage pointed towards the stage. I just haven't decided yet. I'm really hoping I get to do this before ATPI because it could look really cool....if I can make it look like it does in my head. :)

I found a picture!

ISO: 2000   f/5.0   1/250sec

So I was looking through my pictures from last year so I could put them in ATPI. When I got to basketball I found this one that I don't remember taking. I went and re edited it because I didn't do it very well the first time. I just cropped it and I believe brought up the exposure and sharpened it a little. I'm honestly skeptical about putting a sports picture in ATPI because all of the other ones are going to be super good.

Shadows!

        So today, Claire, Caroline, Rush, and I work on a picture that Claire really wanted to do. It was of a girls face, but she had shadows of this lace looking stuff on her face. I was the model, Rush held the lace, Caroline was a human lightstand, and Claire took the picture. First we started by just using the flash pointed directly on my face. But it was too sharp. So then we just used one of the alien bees to shine in front of me but it was across the room. Then Rush held the lace in front of my face while Claire took pictures from different angles. We definitely learned a lot about lighting and shadows, even though it didn't really work. The pictures ended up looking pretty cool, but it wasn't exactly like the picture Claire was trying to recreate.