Texas A&M

ISO: 320 Aperture: 4.0 Shutter Speed: 1/250 Lens: 24-105mm

This was the photo that I took today during class. Honestly, there really wasn't anything difficult about taking this picture. The worst part was that I had to go park on the side of the road, with the wind blowing at crazy fast speeds. I know that I looked very stupid, but honestly I didn't care. This was the picture that I came back with. Its really just an average picture, but I don't know how I could make it not average...

Kirsten Weber - Gun Control

ISO: 800 Aperture: 4.5 Shutter Speed: 1/180 Lens: 24-105

This was a picture that I took for the print newspaper. Mechanically, this picture wasn't too difficult to take, however, I did overexpose it a little bit. It wasn't too bad though, cause I brought the exposure down in lightroom. My favorite part of taking this picture was the whole story behind it. I had no idea who this person was to begin with, but they told me to take a picture of her so I was all like, ok! Apparently, this girl's neighbors were murdered and now she sleeps with a gun. It was kind of awkward at first to take the picture, cause like I said, I didn't know the girl, but I got Maggie (the girl writing the story) to come with me and that was good! I really liked that she came with me because of the fact that I knew after taking the pictures that I got what she wanted.

Sweet Tea

      

ISO: 100 Aperture: 8.0 Shutter Speed: 1/200 Lens: 28-135mm

Soooooo, this was how my picture began. Clearly it needed a whole bunch of work considering the picture is pretty much blank. In this picture I had just snooted the flash and was trying to find the garnish in the drink.

ISO: 100 Aperture: 5.6 Shutter Speed: 1/200 Lens: 28-135mm

In this picture, I finally found the garnish in the drink with the snooted flash. That kinda took a while.

ISO: 100 Aperture: 8.0 Shutter Speed: 1/200 Lens: 28-135mm

In this picture, I turned on the flash underneath the glass so that I could get the lighting through the drink. In order to get the light just under the drink, I cut a hole in a black poster board, put a piece of plexiglass over it, and then put the flash underneath the hole underneath the plexiglass.

ISO: 100 Aperture: 8.0 Shutter Speed: 1/200 Lens: 28-135mm

This is pretty much the same picture, but I cropped it closer in and to the side. I figured it looked kinda artsy haha

Overall I really enjoyed taking this picture because I like to do project photography. Its fun to have an idea and actually complete it. I plan on doing it again, and the next time I want bigger pieces of ice in the drink. Preferably acrylic pieces of ice so that they wont melt. I think that this will give the drink some more texture that I did't get with the crushed ice.

9th Grade Mount Pleasant Boys Basketball

ISO: 1600 Aperture: 4.0 Shutter Speed: 1/200 Lens: 24-105mm

So this is a picture that I took at the last basketball game that I shot. I would have to say that this is the first time that I shot freshman boys. I found that this game was a lot slower pace than the other varsity and JV games that I have shot. I liked this picture just because of how our guy with the ball is surrounded by the other team. The only thing I wish is that I somehow could have gotten the net in the picture. This game was alright to shoot, but I like to shoot varsity games better. They jump higher and the varsity games are a lot more intense.

College Acceptance

ISO: 100 Aperture: 40 Shutter Speed: 1/800 Lens: 70-200mm

This was another assignment for the yearbook. They were wanting pictures of people holding their acceptance letters, so that is what I did. This picture was slightly irritating to take because it was extremely bright outside when I went to go take the picture. Also, it was kind of difficult to position the subject so that the background wasn't distracting. Overall, it was a pretty basic photo.

AP vs. NO AP

ISO: 100 Aperture: 5.0 Shutter Speed: 1/60 Lens: 24-105mm

This was a picture that  took for the yearbook. They were doing a story about which was better, AP or not AP classes. Technically the picture wasn't difficult to take. However, working with the subjects was a little different. They needed to be leaning against each other, and these two people had no idea who each other was. Therefore, I introduced them to each other and tried to make them feel as comfortable as possible. This turned out well because they ended up needing to cut the picture out. Having to take the picture was kinda fun since it was random for both of the subjects. OOOHHH! and the other thing that was really irritating was the fact that the guy was black and the girl was white... MEHHHH!!!

Bryant Girls Varsity Basketball

ISO: 800 Aperture: 4.0 Shutter Speed: 1/250 Lens: 24-105mm

ISO: 800 Aperture: 4.0 Shutter Speed: 1/250 Lens: 24-105mm

Sooo these were some pictures that I took at the last basketball game I shot. In my opinion, these aren't the best photos that I have taken, but they were ok and could probably be used for something. I fee like these photos kinda went in a sequence the second one coming first and then the first one coming next as the girl goes for a shot. I particularly enjoyed the first picture because of the emotion on the girls' faces. They were kinda intense. I liked the second picture because of the lighting on the left side of the girl from Bryant. When going to shoot this game, we were missing a pocket wizard and therefore could not use the third light. I really enjoy using the third light off to the side. Although, I really like the cross lighting that we are using this year instead of the lighting we used last year which we attached to the stands. I'll be shooting another game soon, so I'm hoping that everything will be there and in place.

AP Books

ISO: 100 Aperture: 8.0 Shutter Speed: 1/60 Lens: 24-105mm

These were some pictures that I took for the yearbook. The assignment was to take a picture of a stack of AP text books, so it was pretty straight forward. However the only thing that I had issues with was getting the books to be straight when taking the picture. It seemed to me that at every angle I tried to take the picture from, it was still crooked. What I ended up doing was laying flat on the ground, and taking the picture straight forward. In order to get the background really bright and pretty much gone, I set up two stobes, one on each side of the books hitting the background, and then I had another flash on the front of the books. So overall, it was a pretty easy assignment.

Bryant Boys Varsity Basketball

ISO: 800 Aperture: 4.0 Shutter Speed: 1/250 Lens: 24-105mm

This was a picture that I took at the last basketball game I shot. I actually wasn't supposed to shoot this basketball game, but when I was waiting for the other photographers to arrive at the game I decided to shoot a little more. Right before shooting this I had shot a girls varsity basketball game. There was a HUGE difference between the two games. The boy's game was a whole lot faster, and you had to really keep your eye on the ball. I liked this picture just because of the simple fact that it looks like our player is about to get punched in the face. However, I'm not too keen of the lighting on the left side of our teams player..