Joe's Pizza

ISO: 320 Aperture: 4.0 Shutter Speed: 1/1250 Lens: 24-105mm

ISO: 320 Aperture: 4.0 Shutter Speed: 1/1250 Lens: 24-105mm

So this assignment was to go and take a couple pictures of Joe's Pizza in its new location. It was kind of a dull assignment, so I tried to shoot the building from a different angle. The shape of the building was actually kind of different so I tried to capture that shape in the first picture. To get the angle I actually stood in the middle of the street, which probably wasn't too smart, but it worked I guess. I really need to work on making photo assignments like these more interesting. I guess if I could go back and do this assignment again I would have wanted to shoot it with a wide angle lens.

PG Girls District Game Soccer

ISO: 1250 Aperture: 4.0 Shutter Speed: 1/800 Lens: 70-200mm Flash: 580

This was one of my better pictures from the girls district soccer game against PG. I knew that this game was going to be really intense to begin with due to the fact that both teams live in the same town, therefore, there is a lot of rivalry involved. Because of this, I wanted to try to capture the intensity of the game. I feel like I could have done a better job of doing this if I had been able to use the Bigma. This is because I would have been able to get tighter shots of their expressions and things like that. The good thing about this shot is the fact that the girl who is the main focus is on our team, and the ball is in the picture. I feel like this picture may could have been better if my timing was more spot on, but its definitely usable for the yearbook or something like that.

Varsity Baseball Nacogdoches

ISO: 250 Aperture: 2.8 Shutter Speed: 1/4000 Lens: BIGMA

This was one of my favorite pictures that I took at the last baseball game. I remember when I was taking this picture and I was thinking to myself, "What are they doing, hmmmm, I guess I should take a picture of this." After talking to some friends, they were actually discussing plays, so I guess it was pretty important. I liked this picture because it sparked my interest as to what they were doing, and in my opinion it tells more of a story. I need to try to look for more moments like these when shooting sporting events.

Taize

ISO: 10000 Aperture: 4.0 Shutter Speed: 1/250 Lens: 24-105mm

ISO: 8000 Aperture: 4.0 Shutter Speed: 1/200 Lens: 24-105mm

These were some pictures that I took for my church. Mr. Arnold wanted some pictures for PR for our church and asked me to come take pictures. I wasn't exactly sure what to expect, so I just took my camera. The lighting was awful inside the sanctuary, so that is why my ISO was really high. If I had the chance to go and shoot this assignment again I would have definitely have taken a flash. However, it was still a church service and I didn't want to disrupt anyone. I like the first picture because it is more of a journalistic view of what was going on, but the thing wrong with the first one is that there isn't a person in it. In the second picture I was trying really hard to get a person in the shot, but it was difficult because I still wanted to show that the person was in a church. Therefore, I tried to get the stained glass in the background. That is what I like the most about the second picture. I think that if I went back to do it again I could do a much better job.

Rosebuds Dance Practice

 ISO: 1000 Aperture: 2.8 Shutter Speed: 1/250 Lens: 17-50mm

ISO: 1000 Aperture: 2.8 Shutter Speed: 1/250 Lens: 17-50mm

These were pictures that I took last night at the Rosebuds club meeting. Practicing dancing for the dinner dance was on the agenda for the night. The hardest part about this assignment was getting the close up pictures without being in the way of the dancing. If I had the opportunity to do it again, I would have liked to have had a flash to bounce off the ceiling. That way, the pictures wouldn't have been as grainy.

Jostens

Sooooo, its jostens time again in the quaint room 61. While this sounds like some mere task to accomplish, one can be proven very wrong. CD's, forms, paper, and kind were being thrown around the room in a rush to finish upon the departure of my drill team trip to San Antonio. Whilst everyone else is in a happy rush of wonder and newness, I (Mary Claire Norton), was slowly and quietly diving into a deeper depression of photo related sadness. I was beginning to buckle under the stress of the photographic competition at hand. However, with the will power of a wooly mammoth, I was able to persevere. This sheer and utter ability to get all of this together in the miniscule amount of time allotted was truly a test of my abilities of contest coordinator.VICTORY OR DEATH!!!!

ATPI Winter Conference

This year at ATPI Winter Conference Woodsies, Mackenzie, and I were on the video team. The contest was to produce a music video in less than 24 hours. The song was called Harris by The Burning Hotels. The criteria for the contest was to have it turned in on time, to use the whole song, and to not alter the music in any way. However, you could interpret the song any way you would like. Henceforth, Mackenzie, Woodsies, and I went back to the hotel in order to brainstorm. Apparently the lyrics for this song do not exist online, so we really had to pay attention to the words of the song to figure out what it was really about. After listening to it, we decided that it was about change and doing something new but being hesitant to leave behind what you had before. After discovering this, it sounded to us like the stereotypical love story, however, we didn't want to be that "average." The next thing that we did was plan our scenes and when we needed to shoot them. We knew that we would have to shoot the video out of order because we needed to be outside for some of the shots. It needed to be bright outside during this. After completing all of the shooting, we needed to tackle all of the editing. Kenzie was a beautiful angel from God for this. She is so good at sequencing and there is no way Woodsies and I could have finished this project without her. We ended up pulling an all nighter in order to get the video exported and stuff. At about 5:30 in the morning, the computer started screaming at us saying that we couldn't render our video. At this point in time, Kenzie and Woodsies and I started freaking out. However, we called smith and he came and fixed it. In the end we were really proud of what we had accomplished. We did the whole video on our own, and we have a lot of pride in it. However, we are still kind of hacked off at the fact that we didn't win.