Photoshop experiance

I helped give ideas of what to photoshop onto this picture, but I mainly watched Haley deal with photoshopping this apocalypse picture of our school and it's hilarious actually. By watching her use photoshop, I learned a lot about the tools and how the soft ware works. My favorite part about the image that has been extremely photoshopped is the happy cow going up to the alien ship. The photo of the school used in this photo was taken by Haley; there were many photos of the school for the yearbook cover so she just picked on and used it.

How to Shoot a Meeting and Newspaper Situation

For starters, there were still 12 photo assignments not done and they were needed before February 7th. I was not happy. Then, I was looking over the rosebuds photos that were taken at the last meeting to pick one out that would go up on the online newspaper, and they were horrible. So today at the beginning of class I talked about how it was ridiculous that photo assignments were assigned two weeks ago, and they were still not done. I talked about how the photographers who haven't gotten their stuff done should be like Ndidi because she ALWAYS has her stuff done a couple of days after I assign it. After that little gripe-out, I went over the rosebuds pictures. I discussed that all picture should consist of the officers talking, the sponsor talking, the rosebuds girls' reactions, and anything and everything that was going on (like roll call and the girls eating snacks and talking before the meetings). After the discussion everyone was clear on how to shoot meetings! It was a productive day today. There are only 4 assignments left and the events haven't happened for pictures to be taken. So, it's all good!! :)

Car Collision Physics' Activity

ISO 1000, aperture 2.8, and a shutter speed of 1/160th of a second

Well when I walked into newspaper, I was told that a car collision activity was happening in Mr. Upchurch's physics' class and I needed to go take pictures of it for the yearbook. It was hard to get images cause the class was all in groups and against the walls doing this activity, but I managed. THis is my favorite image because it showed what was going on and a group effort. I took this image with a 17-50mm lens.

lighting corrections

Earlier this week Haley and I noticed that the photos pushed of the girls soccer didn't have the correct lighting and needed to be fixed before they went up on a yearbook spread or anything for the newspaper. Haley was busy doing things for newspaper, so I helped Carlie and Sydney fixed the lighting in their photos. Both of them had wonderful action pictures and the lighting is now corrected!! Whoop whoop!!

Zierre Spotlight

ISO 400, aperture 11.0, and a shutter speed of 1/250th of a second

This image was taken for the yearbook. They are doing stories/spotlights on a single person out of each grade. It had to be cut out, so this picture was taken on high key. I really wish Smith's idea about putting paint on the drum and Zierre hitting the drum would have worked, but the paint would destroy the school drum. My idea of Zierre tossing a drum stick in the air and me capturing all of the spins couldn't work either because it would have needed to be done on a black background and the picture needed to get done. So, I ended up asking him to just bouncing the drumstick off of the drum and capturing the drumstick in the air. I used a 17-50mm lens.

Issue 4 cover photo: armed teacher

 ISO 800, aperture 4.0, and a shutter speed of 1/250th of a second

This picture was a combined photo made up of multiple different pictures, like a panoramic. I took this image with a 70-200mm lens. It had rained that day so we used the neatly colored fence for the background, but normally when doing a picture like this you would want a picture with more depth of field (have more in the background). This picture is made up of nine different photos combined into one using photoshop! The nine images consisted of one in the top left, top middle, top right, middle right, the middle, middle left, lower left, lower middle, and lower right. Also, we set up a flash on a light stand close to the subject and facing down (the slave flash) and there was a flash on my camera (the master flash) that was triggering the other flash. I stood across the street when I took these images that became one. I really love the lighting and the red apple. The gun pops as well!! This picture was cropped to where the subject was to the right so that the newspaper could have room to have space for a text box.

ISO 800, aperture 4.0, and a shutter speed of 1/250th of a second

The only difference in this image from the panoramic picture is that it was taken with a 50mm and it was just a single image. We also repositioned her hand so you could see her manicure better!

This cover photo is supposed to show the newspaper's view on armed teachers. The newspaper staff wanted a female teacher armed with a gun. We used Mr. Smith's gun and we found a teacher that would be comfortable with a gun on their hip. The apple and notebook/bag was to show she was a teacher, and the manicure and just her outfit makes the point that she's a female. I really enjoyed this cover photo because it wasn't done in the studio! It's something different than all of the other cover photos I've taken this year! Plus this teacher gave Smith, Caroline, and I hot chocolate afterwards!!!

THS vs. Mt. Pleasant varsity basketball

 ISO 1600, aperture 5.6, and a shutter speed of 1/250th of a second

I took this picture at the boy's varsity basketball game against Mt. Pleasant. I really like all the action going on in this image. I like how "number 1" is catching/throwing the ball from/to "number 15." I wish there wasn't a shadow on "number 15" and he was in focus with "number 1." I liked this image mainly because it looks different and it's at a different perspective. 

ISO 1600, aperture 5.6, and a shutter speed of 1/250th of a second

I loveeeee this image!!!! I love his facial expression and how the motion is captured. I don't like the guys leg in the image though...

Both of these images were shot with a 17-50mm lens. Also, the basketball lighting was already set up by the other photographers who were shooting the freshman and JV game. 

Assignment day! YAY!!!!!!

Today was the day were there were a ton of photo assignment from the newspaper staff, which is awesome cause the due date is in a month and it gives photographers a good amount of time to be creative and get them all done without stressing. I went through each assignment and talked about what needed to be done and how to be creative with it. Today was a very happy day. Everything for the next issue (that I know of has been assigned).

Today Carlie and I learned how to set up the PANORAMIC PRINTERS!!!! SO EXCITING. Setting them up took up took forever though, but at least we followed directions and the sample print looked really good. :)