Idea for TOP

Hailey Woods and I decided to group up together to create an idea for TOP. The theme photography has chosen is "The Town that Dread Sundown," which is about a phantom killer. Our idea involves the murder of a couple in a car. The couple had been taken out one at a time and killed by the man in a mask. We've decided that we want a light from behind a oldish car in order to show the "dead" guy in the car. The car will have its lights on and maybe have a smoke machine under the car. Outside of the car, the dying girl will have a blood stain (made from a dyed sheet). There will be another light behind the creeper/phantom in order to create a shadow of him. This photo will be shot will a wide angle lens. This picture will be a cookie cutter type instead of a silloute.

Organ Tray

ISO 320, aperture 9.0, and a shutter speed of 1/200th of a second

This picture is the cover picture for the newspaper's first issue of 2012-2013. The newspaper staff wanted an actual organ tray in the picture, but instead we used a doctor's tray because there weren't any organ trays available in the Texarkana area. One of my close friend's dad is a surgeon, so I asked him if he could borrow some scrubs, a pair of gloves, and a doctor tray in order to get the full effect of the "organ" themed newspaper. For the white background, I swapped out the black background with a white one. I placed a 800 alien bee behind my friend holding the doctor's tray and I placed a light with an umbrella on the light stand to the left of my friend. I turned to power up a little on both of the 800 alien bees. This picture was taken with a 17-50mm lens.

Football Program Headshot Fail

ISO 800, aperture 8.0, and a shutter speed 1/250th of a second

As you can tell, this assignment assigned to Haley and I was a complete FAIL. We were supposed to take the football mugshots for the 2012-2013 Texas High football program. First of all, we didn't set the chair six feet away from the wall like we were supposed to in order to not get the shadow which we captured. Another big no no was that we shot them horizontally instead of vertically, so we didn't get their jersey number (giving us a hard time figuring out each of their names). Most of the pictures were extremely dark as well. So literally, this was a horrifying, fail of taking an assignment.

Freeb!rds

ISO 800, aperture 2.8, and a shutter speed of 1/60th

This picture was taken at the Georgia Shields Publication camp in Dallas. I was in an advanced photography class with Haley while at the camp. The instructor assigned us an assignment to capture images of the place and people where we were eating at. I used a 17-50mm lens when I took this image. I really enjoy depth of field, and I wanted to do something unique. There was good lighting inside, so it wasn't hard to capture correctly. I really like all the colors and how the picture is kind of abstract. I absolutely love this imaged! Andddd I got photo of the summer along with some candy, but that's besides the point! :)