Cover Delima

what I was trying to accomplish...

how it turned out. 

For the second issue, the newspaper staff decided that they wanted the first picture above as their cover picture, but instead with two girls that were adopted. The cover was decided on last minute, giving me barley any time to get in done before the paper would be send off to press. I worked on it for several hours, Smith worked on it, and so did Haley and Caroline. The main problem with my version was that you couldn't tell what the features of the two girls were. When I took the picture of them, I should have gotten them both together (instead of separate and then putting them together in photoshop) and I should have put the 2 alien bees, which were on each side of their faces, further away in order to create a bigger shadow. This cover was extremely upsetting because it didn't work right. Next time, I will sit down the newspaper staff and tell them that they have to get things in to me sooner so that I can go ahead and begin working on the images for them. For the cover, they ended up using a picture Caroline and Haley took of two hands. At least the paper is done! And.... I learned a lot more about how to work photoshop. I haven't every really worked with it until this cover attempt.

Hair Toss

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

I took this picture last night at the newspaper worknight. Caroline Purtle is doing an entertainment story on 15 proper ways to tie/wear a scarf. This assignment took forever, but it turned out great. This is my favorite image out of the 15 I took because of the hair toss. I used a 17-50mm lens. When processing, I had to go in and make the background completely white because it was kind of gray. I should have put an alien bee behind her to hit the background to make it white. 

Grave's Family

ISO 1000, aperture 4.0, and a shutter speed of 1/80th of a second

This assignment was extremely frustrating because the first time I went to go take the picture while newspaper was interviewing the family, the little girl wasn't there, so I had to do a mock photo that would go in the doubletuck of the second issue. I used the wide angle lens when taking this picture. I wish I would have had more time to take a more creative and cozy type of family bonding photo. The lighting in the house was horrible. This is a very nice family, but since the picture wasn't taken during the interview, I feel like it's way too posed! 

I'm sick and I found out that we will probably have to put down my 13 year old dog, Kipper today. I'm sorry I've been out of it all day. Today I kept up with the juniors and made sure they pushed what needed to be pushed for newspaper.

THS vs. Pine Tree

ISO 1000, aperture 4.0, and a shutter speed of 1/250th of a second

This is the best picture I captured at the football game on Friday, and it really isn't that great. This picture is actually in focus unlike multiple of my other images. It was quite depressing. I should have had my shutter speed on 1/500th of a second. Next time I will make sure that the shutter speed is always correct; I'll make sure my finger doesn't slip and make the shutter speed slower. I'm not happy with these images, but they could have been worse. I do like this image because of the angle and his emotion.

Pre-game video

Today Smith taught me how to use video and the final cut express program. There was a long process, but it was easy to get the hang of. We were planning on using audio from the video camera and Caroline's picture from the varsity pre-game against Pine Tree. Smith, Caroline, and I were going to create an on-sight pre-game video that would go up on Tiger Times Online. Everything was captured for the perfect first video, but the images took way too long to transfer. I got to shoot the rest of the game though! It was an exciting game too! GO THS.

blueberry

Josh Rostek took this picture today during class, and I helped with what I could. On Monday, he was searching through flickr and found an image very similar, so we thought it would be really cool to recreate it! We tried to get a nice pretty background, however, that didn't really get accomplished. This image was my favorite out of the ones he took. This image took forever to get correct. The timing was difficult. I helped Josh set everything up and get the focus set correctly. It was hard to get the perfect milk splash, but I think he did a great job. I had a blast helping him out with the blueberry photograph.