Pink out

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This picture is from the Pink Out Pep Rally. Apparently rapping is all anyone could think of doing, but it's fine because I think I got some decent pictures. At this pep rally, I tried to make the majority of my pictures have a fuzzy background because that's the look Potter is going for. I think this picture could be more interesting, but I'm extremely happy with the way Miles pops off the background. In order to make this shallow depth of field effect, I bumped my aperture all the way down (I was using a 70-200) and shot at around 150-200mm. I'm happy with the photos i took, but i wish they could've been more interesting.

Hoshki at Halftime

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I love this picture. I took this sitting under the drum major stand during halftime of our last home game. I haven't ever gotten in this spot before, but I did gotten a similar picture of another marimba player at a previous game and I knew what I needed to do to make it the image I wanted. I pretty much had to sit and wait for the right moment (when his mallets were raised), but it was just a plus that in the spot I chose the subject has to look straight up to see the drum major. I think it really adds to the photo. I just wish i would've processed this image in time for the ATPI deadline.

Swimmy

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This picture is alright. I didn't get any super cool or out of the ordinary pictures from this particular assignment, but it was my first swim meet so I guess it's alright. I really liked shooting swim, but i wish i could think of a way to make the photos more interesting. The only challenging thing about this was the lighting in the building. It was super weird. Everything else, however, was pretty good. (other than the tighter than skin tight speedos mixed with hairy legs) I could literally go anywhere but in the water as long as i wasn't in the way of the timer people. It was nice. I think if i shoot swim again I'll play with my settings a little bit more because almost all of my images were a tiny bit under exposed.

Spider

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This picture was just something i took on my own. I was looking out the window in the morning before church and I saw this awesome spider web with rain drops on it since it had rained the night before. Of course, i went and got my camera, but i didn't realize that there might be a HUGE spider on the web. Spiders creep me out. AND, i shot with a 17-50 so i'm actually closer to this spider than it looks.. :((( Anyway, i guess it's a cool picture. I wish i would've gotten closer to the spider so it'd be a really cool picture and this spider was fuzzy so that'd make it even more cool but lolz that's just a wish for a reason, Right?

Kitty Pumpkin

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Well, this picture was technically an assignment that Potter gave Sydney and I during class one day. Maggie's mom carved an awful cat into this poor pumpkin, and it was almost hard to keep a straight ace while shooting it. This was the first time I've ever shot anything in the studio, and Sydney set most everything up since we were in a hurry and i really had no idea what to do. We ended up just having Sydney and Alyssa set off a flash on either side of the pumpkin while I held down the shutter for like 15-20 seconds to get the whole timed exposure light in my pumpkin kind of effect. I really want to learn more about studio stuff. Really, i just wand to be told what everything is and what it does and be let loose and see what cool tricks and whatnot i can figure out on my own before I offically learn things. You have to compliment my marvelous job of spreading out the spider web that the pumpkin is sitting on, though.

MIC club

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This picture is of a member of MIC club keeping an old lady in a nursing home company after painting her nails. I was told that i wasn't allowed to get any of the elderly's faces in my pictures due to privacy laws, so that really took the creativity option out of this assignment. I like this picture because you can tell that the two subject are engaged in conversation, even though one of their faces isn't shown. I think another reason i like this picture (don't judge) is because when i was little, i spent a lot of time at my Granny's house, and when i took a bath there there was only one towel i would use, and it was the exact same print of the old lady's shirt in this picture. Like same colors and stripes and everything. I know thats not relevant, but this is my blog sooo hehe

creeper

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Well, This is another picture that Pot threw on Sydney and I last minute one day. She actually threw it on Sydney but then Sydney threw it on me since I had Pot's class the next period. I had to have help since i have no idea how to use anything in the studio, and with time, this picture could've turned out tons better. I am also eternally grateful to Smith for taking his whole AV Tech or whatever class up to Pot's just so he could help a sista out. We were kind of in a rush so he didn't really explain what anything did or how it worked, which is what i like to know, but i still understood what was going on and i could recreate this by myself if i needed to.

Blood Drive

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This was taken at the blood drive.  I tried for a reaction picture, and i guess i got one. i like that the nurse is in the picture. Looking at other people's blood drive pictures, i noticed that most of their pictures only had an arm or hand belonging to a nurse. I don't particularly like this picture, but it was the best reaction picture i got, since everyone else that came while i was shooting didn't really have a reaction. I didn't have a fash with me, but i think the picture still turned out alright.

Importance of Being Earnest 10/1

fiyaaa

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This is a picture that i just shot on my own. I was on the land my dad is clearing and he built a huge  fire so i just ya know whipped out my camera to see what would happen. The fire doesn't look that big but the wood was stacked up at least 6 and  half feet. My dad and brother were throwing things into the fire to make the sparks fly. i guess it's cool. I wish i would've done more than just sit there and snap pictures of the sparks. 

Chau is a pretty pretty princess 10/3

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This picture is of Homecoming Queen crowning. It wasn't very hard to shoot, since I was directly in front of Chau. I had a flash, but i didn't attach a battery pack so the batteries died pretty quickly. I'm happy with the way these photos turned out, especially because of Chau's emotion. I think it's a really adorable picture since her mom and dad are both making faces too.