I should be a model...not

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Amy needed someone to model for a newspaper picture. They needed a picture with someone that illustrated that words hurt. I helped Amy set up the lights so background was completely white. We tried different photos..like my hand over my mouth and tape over my mouth but without the words. We had to get a little creative instead of just taking a picture. It made me realize how much Amy goes through to think of the creative pictures newspaper always wants.

Human Lightstand

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I did not take this picture. Claire did.

So Claire got an assignment for a bullying picture for the newspaper. A bunch of use went to help her take it but I ended up being the human lightstand.
We started out taking the picture in the stairs to nowhere. We tried multiple different angles and flash placements and settings. But we just couldn't get it to work. The people who were being bullied were at the bottom, I (the lightstand) was on the ledge just over them pointing the flash on top of their heads, Josh was a few steps from the top of the stairs with a light behind his fist. After about an hour, we called smith. When he finally arrived, he told us our set up wasn't necessarily wrong but it would never work just like we wanted. So we moved to the spot where the above picture is. I was standing on the right side of the picture and I was positioned in between Josh and Kenzie. I had a 580 flash, and I'll be honest..I don't remember what the settings were. By helping with this picture, I learned a little bit more about lighting people and where to stand. 

Shop with a Cop

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Shop with a cop..a.k.a. one of the saddest yet eye opening experiences. When we were at Target shooting Shop with a Cop, Rush and I saw a school cop, Officer Erving. and we decided to follow him. Well, Rush had a breakdown. After calming her down, she decided she wanted to help him shop for some clothes for Stormy, so I took a break from video and took pictures with rush's camera. I wanted to capture him helping her pick out clothes. The lighting was kinda weird in target because if I knelt down to take a picture like the ones above, it got a little darker. It wasn't much adjusting just because Rush had already used it. Anyway, I wanted to make my angles a little creative and not just snap some pictures. The first picture, I tried to use some leading lines, to where your eyes are drawn into the two of them. It also shows where they are. not necessarily target, but you can tell that they are shopping for clothes. In the second picture, Officer Erving is helping her try on some shoes, and he was  checking the tennis shoes she was wearing for her size. I didn't get to shoot still pictures but for only like 5 minutes because I was mainly doing video. However, it was nice to take a short break and take a few pictures. 

Basketball is back!

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I was super excited to shoot basketball again. However, it was the first time I actually had to set up the lights by myself. Granted Ndidi was there, but I was used to having a senior there to guide me in the right direction. It wasn't that hard to set up the lights but I had to ask Claire to double check what I was doing because we changed how to do the lights this year. We set up two lightstands with the flashes facing each other towards the side of the gym. The settings were at 1/2 power and at 50mm zoom. Then we had another lightstand with one flash on the side of the court pointed toward the ceiling. This flash was also at 1/2 power but it was 105mm zoom. 

I haven't had a chance to look through all of my raw files because Carlie and Kenzie processed my pictures, but this one was one of the good ones from that. It took me awhile to get back in the rhythm of basketball since you can't just "spray and pray." Timing is super important in the shooting of basketball.  This picture, in my opinion, was timed fairly well. I wish number 4 wasn't in the shot because he is kinda distracting, but the other two players are far enough to the right that he isn't in the way.  

Attempt Number 1 at Creeper/TOP pictures

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This was one of our first pictures. We took these in a Spring Lake Park parking lot. This was the first location we tried, but as you can see its super orange. This was also the first picture with the flash in the car. It was super bright so we spent a few minutes trying to get it low enough to where it would blow the people's faces when they got in. After realizing that location wouldn't work because of the orange color, we moved to the other side of the parking lot.

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Anddd...this was the next location! We used Davis' car and he backed up into the parking spot so the orange street lights would be in the picture. We originally wanted the creeps shadow on the car (our attempt above) but we soon realized it wouldn't work. Our reason for doing it in the front is so the car could be lit up some too. But after we took away the shadow, it was insanely too bright. So our next idea was to use Claire's car and shine her headlights on the left side of Davis' car.

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This was our favorite picture as far as the lighting goes inside the car. We couldn't get the flashes to go off all at the same time so the picture never worked. But we wanted to show what we were going for in the car. 

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So this is the picture that illustrated how we wanted Davis lit and the side of the car using Claire's car. I really wish we could take this picture and insert the lighting inside the car to it. But of course, I don't think thats possible. 

So we spent a lot of time on this picture..

With the help of Rush, Claire, Michael, and Davis :)

but it didn't meet our expectations. We are definitely gonna attempt this again. 

and its gonna be awesome! 

The Precious Ferns

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So I had to go re take this ad picture for a yearbook spread. Rushing and I had already taken this once, but when they yearbook staff sent the proof to the owner, he told them he wanted his new ferns in the picture. On my way to take this picture, I thought these ferns were going to be the best things ever and make the building pop and be super extravagant. No. The precious ferns were potted plants. Anywho, I did what he wanted and re took the picture. The street lights were very uncooperative. They made the picture look really orange, which is never fun.