I almost got stabbed...

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Okay, so this picture also took almost 2 hours like the window one. and I was "tied" to the tree the entire time. We loosely tied the bandana around my hands so I could get out of it if I wanted but I still had to hug a tree most of the time. I was really glad I wore my TOMS so I could put them under my knees or else I would have gone insane. When we first started we were taking the picture at a different angle. Originally we didn't want my face in it so we tried to take in with me directly behind the tree and josh to the side where you could still she the knife and his face but it didn't work because the knife wasn't very noticeable.  So then we decided to shoot it at this angle. It ended up working a lot better. So we had Kenzie..i think..hold a flash behind him. Also, we had a flash set up to light Josh in front of him. We also had one to light me as well. Oh, and the most important difficulty we had was that we had to shoot in master and slave because we didn't have any syncs. It really wasn't that difficult but we just weren't used to it. Smith didn't like the fact that my face was in the picture all scared like but everyone else did so we used it. I think everyone who came out to help us learned at least a little bit about lighting and everyone definitely helped us out. It took 7 people to take this picture and everyone was doing something at all times.

Portrait

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So Caroline took this picture but I helped so I wanted to blog about it. We took the picture in the studio because we just needed a black background. We had a light behind him and to give the rim light. We also had a flash to light his face from the right. I held the reflector under his chin to help light his face. I'm glad that we were able to light his eyes because I think it adds something to the picture.  This picture was definitely not as hard as the others but it looks really cool. It also didn't take very long since we knew exactly what we wanted and we are used to the studio lights. I loved that we used this picture for the opening picture in the portfolio. It illustrates the creepiness of the phantom killer and it was just a good starter to the story.

TTDSD

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This picture. Oh dear heavens. It took 2 hours to do. We definitely didn't expect it to take that long but it turned out pretty good. When Claire, Kenzie, Josh and I all met at the school we decided we should take this picture since there was only 4 of us and this only called for two people in the picture. One or two more people would have been helpful but we made it work. We needed a large window with a chair or couch in front of it so I volunteered my house. This window was complicated to say the least. We went through so many different lighting ways, I can't even remember them all. At first we wanted Josh to be dark but have a rim light around him but that didn't work so we put the flash to the side of him and lit her whole body. Inside the house, we had a flash set up to go off towards Kenzie to light her. At first we had the lamp above Kenzie on to add a little flare but after a while we decided to turn it off because it was distracting. So then we decided to have a flash go off and point it down on her. Once we got the lighting right we took our picture and everyone was happy. Then my dog decided to walk through the living room so we decided we wanted to take one with him in it. He cooperated for one picture. only one. BUT it was the one we used for TOP. This was the first picture with him but after the next two pictures where he didn't cooperate we stopped trying. Even though this picture took 2 stinkin hours, I learned a lot about lighting and stuff. I was very glad to take this picture.

DISNEY!

I was super excited when all the drummers in my group decided to play cadences on these drums in Animal Kingdom. Of course they decided to do it when the camera was in my bag and I had issues trying to get it out. Anyway, I got it out and took pictures of them drumming. It was kinda difficult to get good angles of the drummers because of the crowd that was surrounding them. I didn't know how to work the camera really well so some of their hands were kinda blurry. But this one turned out pretty good. They also didn't drum very long so I couldn't get as many pictures as I wanted. However, I did get about 10 or 15. I was very lucky I was with them when they did this because its a fun picture and not just one of students just chillin in line.

This picture was taken in Epcot on this ride where you go super fast in the car around the building. While in line they had these computers where people could design a car. In this picture, Cavan was designing his car while Kate and Angela watched. Taking this picture was kinda painful and a little awkward. There wasn't much space between each computer, but in order to get his face, I needed to sqeeze between them. My butt may be small but it wasn't that small. Even though I had to sqeeeze, the picture came out. The thing I don't like is that its yellow. I tried to fix it but all the colors in the picture are just weird because of the lighting. I wish I could have gotten further back so all of his head and more of the computer screen could have been in the picture but that was the best I could do at the time.

Okay, so it was the last day and I had some pictures but I didn't have a whole lot. So I posed this picture. Well kinda... They were actually in a circle talking but they looked super boring. So I told them to argue or look more involved in the conversation. and they did. thank goodness. Even though it was posed, this is how everyone looked liked the entire trip. We argued quite a lot. This picture is kinda awkward, but they used it in the yearbook so it was atleast useful. Because they were in a circle and there was 50 million people around this was one of the only decent angles to get.

Baseball

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I'm terrible at posing

Okay, so we haven't processed the pictures from when Claire, Caroline, Rush and I took senior pictures but I still wanted to talk about the whole experience. The four of us decided we wanted to take our seniors pictures together so we wouldn't have to pay for some done and theirs would be a lot of angles. However, we soon realized how awkward we truly are. We didn't know how to pose people properly and so we just went with it. We also didn't have a flash or reflector so it was even better! Not really.. We didn't have a lot of time to work with since the sun was going down  so we didn't get a lot of time to really work with what we had to make them better. When processing, we realized that we didn't really pay attention to the way our bodies were positioned towards the sun. I noticed that some of the pictures had harsh shadows. Also, I noticed that in some of the pictures we didn't notice our shoulders...like slouching and lack of clothes. Basically this whole experience taught me to pay more attention to the way people are positioned and the way the sun is on them. It definitely helped for when I took Paige's senior pictures. Overall the pictures turned out pretty well and I think we did pretty good considering the circumstances.

Miss THS

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