Bully Pic

ISO: 400 Aperture: 16 Shutter Speed: 1/80 Lens: 24-105mm Flash: 2 580

This was a picture that I took for the newspaper today durning class. The assignment was to take a photo that illustrated the terror/fear/experience of being bullied. I was really excited when I got this assignment because I feel like I have been in somewhat of a slump lately. I've been taking pictures, but they haven't really been story telling or even that enjoyable to take. However, when taking this picture I was able to tell a story and I learned quite a bit in the process. When I first started taking the picture I thought  wanted to take it in the staircase to nowhere. However, I couldn't get the lighting that I wanted (rim-light) because of the way the sun was shining into the area. So, after getting frustrated and calling Smith complaining that I couldn't get a rim light, he came down and we moved in front of the water fountains. This completely changed my idea of lighting. The light on Kenzie is a 580 that we used a snoot on in order to get a light that kinda looked like a spot light. Then for the light on Josh we used another 580 on a light stand off to the right of him. We then took a reflector and held it on the left of Josh to get more light on the inside of his arm. Taking this photo made me really realize that light comes from above (naturally) and that I needed to make a better point to be aware of that when I set up off camera flash. Overall this photo was fun to take, and I'm really glad I was given the opportunity to shoot it.