Golf...

ISO 100, aperture 4.0, and a shutter speed of 1/500th of a second

Well, this is literally the only descent image I got at the golf tournament at Texarkana Country Club. I don't know anything about golf, so it was hard to understand what was going on. The coach told me not to go on the field or take pictures of them where they could see me. This assignment was difficult, and personally, I dislike taking pictures of the sport. If we shoot golf again, I will make sure to get more action shots. I'm upset with all of my golf images. I used a 135-400mm lens.

TX. vs. Ark

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

ISO 1600, aperture 4.0, and a shutter speed of 1/500th of a second

Both of these images were taken with a 70-200mm lens at the TX vs. Ark varsity football game. I love the eye contact in the first picture, and I like how the guy playing the trumpet is bending backwards. My football pictures weren't that great, but the pre-game stuff I captured was a lot better.

Spiraling into an economic depression

ISO 100, aperture 8.0, and a shutter speed of 1/250th of a second

This picture was taken for a newspaper story about how weed lowers student's IQ's. It was complicated to get this picture properly lit and everything. I was given a picture to look off, so I knew what they wanted. We rolled up a piece of newspaper and stuck a match inside of the end in order to give the "weed" effect. As soon as the match was lit, the picture had to be taken for the proper lighting that the newspaper staff wanted. We put a 800 alien bee light behind her hand to get a rim light. The timing was the most important part of taking this picture. I really like how her nails were dark, it gave the spooky effect. I used a 17-50mm lens.

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! :)