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I just want to say how much I've enjoyed this class with you all!  It's been fun and I wish you luck in your future endeavors!

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Feature Photo Edit

I decided to edit one of Jessica's feature photos.  Not only did I love this shoot, but all of the pictures were fantastic!  I'm a huge fan of black and white photography, so on my edit of the picture I made it black and white and cropped it to focus on the construction vehicle.  I think it turned out pretty good!

Hard News Shoot

Last week I witnessed the aftermath of a car accident outside of the student housing complex "The Stay".  There were police cars (2 or 3) and an ambulance.  I didn't have my camera on me at the time and I was on my way out so I didn't get any good shots of the action.  After the fact, I walked over and got some shots of the place and the car, so I hope that its adequate for the shoot.  Listening to police scanners and such is all well and good, but if you can't get to where the action is there's not much point in my eyes.  So, anyway, here are my shots!

1/60 f/5.6 55mm ISO 2200

1/60 f/4.8 32mm ISO 2500

1/60 f/3.8 22mm ISO 2500

1/60 f/3.8 20mm ISO 2000

1/60 f/5.6 55mm ISO 3200

Feature News Shoot

This was definitely one of my favorite things to shoot this semester!  I took these photos as if I were on assignment to photograph the preview night of the comedy musical "Nunsense Boulevard".  I wasn't allowed to take any pictures during the performance, but I did take pictures of the set at different angles and then a couple pictures of the cast at the end.  

29mm 1/15 f/4.5 ISO 900

18mm 1/15 f/3.5 ISO 720

30mm 1/60 f/4.5 ISO 3200

22mm 1/60 f/3.8 ISO 3200

20mm 1/60 f/3.8 ISO 3200

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Illustrative Shoot

My goal with this shoot was to illustrate that when it comes to people and their partner preference, no one sees the person, all they see is their sexuality.  Sometimes its as if I have the word bi-sexual stamped onto my forehead.  I wanted to introduce depth of field into these shots so that the signs would be clear but the people behind them would be blurred, but I think that the signs were too close to the people holding them to get a really clear depth of field.  Regardless, I really like how these look and it does illustrate my point.  

52mm 1/20 f/5.6 ISO 400

55mm 1/15 f/5.6 ISO 400

Natural Light Portraits

1/200 f/7.1 46mm

1/160 f/6.3 45mm

1/125 f/5.6 50mm

1/160 f/6.3 50mm

Shots from Class 2/20/17

I really like how this picture turned out with half of his face in the light and half shadowed.  

Close up - still with the half-shadowed face.  Better detail this time even though the lighting feels somewhat off.

I really love how this one turned out (minus the crappy iPhone quality).  The way the backdrop of the sunlight makes her hair almost glow and how we managed to bring light to highlight her features was really nice.

I like how we put the light to highlight the bottom half of her face, I think it really works here.

This pic turned out really well!

This one isn't bad either.

I know his face is dark, but I really like the contrast between the shadows on his face and the brightness behind him.  Maybe it's just me.

I took other pictures of the two models that we had yesterday but this picture turned out the best.

Shooting Tight

1/60 f/5.6 55mm ISO 3200

I think this is one of the better ones I managed to get...I like the angle and the lighting.  

1/100 f/5 34 mm ISO 3200

1/100 f/5 34mm ISO 3200

1/50 f/5 34mm ISO 3200

1/60 f/5 34mm ISO 3200

Beautiful Sunrise

I was up really late over the break and caught the most gorgeous sunrise with my camera.  I am literally so proud of these pics I had to share!

Shooting Wide

1/60 f/4 18mm ISO 400

1/320 f/4 18mm ISO 400

1/125 f/4.8 32mm ISO 140

1/125 f/4.5 28mm ISO 125

1/60 f/4 18mm ISO 400

I had the immense pleasure of being able to shoot the second meeting of the creative writing club this semester on Monday.  We just gained club status officially last semester so it's kind of a big deal (at least to me).  By the time I got there, they had just finished their writing prompt and were discussing what they'd written.  I actually really like how these pictures came out, especially the first and last ones.  I'm finally getting the hang of using the camera, I think.  

Test/Beginner Shots

1/320 f/9 ISO 3200

1/800 f/14 ISO 3200

1/125 f/5.6 ISO 200

1/125 f/5.6 ISO 160

1/200 f/7.1 ISO 100

Shooting the Axioms

1/30 f/4.5 ISO 400

Deep Depth of Field

I set this up in my dorm room over the weekend.  The Downy is in the foreground while the books and cereal are behind it at varying spaces.  I think this photo came out really well, if a little underexposed.

1/30 f/5.6 ISO 400

Shallow Depth of Field

I really loved how this one turned out!  The Downy bottle is perfectly in focus while the books and the cereal came out blurred.  Yay for learning how to use your camera (finally)!

1/8 f/7.1 ISO 400

Slow Shutter Speed

Using my friend Jenn as a model, I captured this blurred motion shot while she ate a slice of pizza.  I love how her motion is blurred while everything else is in focus.  

1/400 f/10 ISO 3200

Fast Shutter Speed

This was actually one of the first pictures I took with this camera, back when I had zero clue what I was doing and just messing around with some settings.  I captured this motion freeze shot with the students walking behind the Brooks statue (and I'm actually super proud of it!).

Self Portrait(s)

I ended up taking these with the cell phone because I'm not super skilled on my DSLR yet.  Either way, they turned out better than I expected!  I usually hate myself in pictures but these two are actually not half bad.  Therefore, I give you my bored face and my...happy face, I guess?  Either way, its my face!