Ben Norton's Student Body Campaign

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

This image of Ben Norton wasn't an assignment; Brianna asked me to take some pictures of him for his campaign posters and shirts. This image of him was cut out and he was placed on top of the world on all of the campaign t-shirts. I didn't mind taking these images because I had nothing better to do. TOP is finished, and the last issue doesn't have many photo assignments yet. This image was taken on high key, but the background isn't 100% white probably because how I was positioned over him. He was too tall for a full body image, so I stood on a chair and angled the camera in a position where he didn't look too unproportionate. Both Ben and Brianna loved the images. I used a 17-50mm lens.

Abigail's Vlog made from pictures about fonts!

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

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

Today I had a doctor's appointment, so I wasn't in class till the last part of third period.

Man on the Street

 ISO 160, aperture 8.0, and a shutter speed of 1/250th of a second

This picture was taken for fun when I was setting up the lighting for the "Man on the Street" column. I just had to put this picture on my blog because it's so awkward. I adore these too, and this photo is defiantly going on the slideshow at the publications' banquet. I used a 17-50mm lens.

ISO 160, aperture 8.0, and a shutter speed of 1/250th of a second

This image is for the actual "Man on the Street" column. There wasn't much to the picture, but I'm getting more comfortable in awkward situations which is a good thing. This girl was really sweet. It was easy taking this picture along with three others because the lighting was already set up correctly. I used a 17-50mm lens.

Promote Cheating Picture

ISO 1000, aperture 4.0, and a shutter speed of 1/200th of a second

The assignment was for a story an editor is writing for how teachers give so many worksheets that students are beginning to resort to cheating. The picture was suppose to capture busy work and students working together with no faces and hands/arms. I really like this image because it goes along with the story so well. The picture was taken with a 17-50mm lens. I stood on a chair behind these students and hovered over them to the image. The lighting in the room was great, so the picture turned out perfect! 

All during photography today I've been making sure assignments that were recently assigned have been taken or are in the process of being taken. I went with Carlie to make sure the got the right horticulture picture, and I've been keeping Potter updated on what's being pushed after things are taken. I have a lot to do this week since the fifth newspaper issue is due Friday. AHHHH!!!! On the positive side, everything is almost done and I'm on top of it all, so it will be done with fabulous images from our lovely photography staff.

Approaching Deadline

The newspaper's 5th issue deadline is approaching and there are a lot of assignments that need to get done. I'm not too happy with this issue because the cover and double truck photos are all cartoons. Most of the interesting assignments are for online, and all the headshots taken are for print. Hopefully, the senior issue will have more interesting photos for print. I really want news so there could be interesting photojournalism stories to talk about, but this last issue is all about seniors so there won't be. Maybe next year the paper will have more news.

Sabrina's moth phobia

This photo was taken by Riley Madlock, but I helped her get the shadow and lighting right for the photo to look like her idea. It turned out really awesome. This was their second time working on it because the first round you couldn't tell what she was afraid of. They asked me to help them work on this photo and it was a lot of fun. Having the understanding of how lighting works, we all learned how do create a shadows. At first we tried holding the moth in front of the 400 alien bee, but in the photo it looked like a blob. After taking plenty of pictures when figuring out how we wanted Sabrina lit, we turned off the left alien bee and just kept the right alien bee on and turned on the power. Once we got the both correctly lit along with the shadow, we worked on the lighting on Sabrina, but that wasn't too hard.

I went home today after I assigned multiple assignments for the 5th issue of the newspaper