The Big G

ISO: 1000 Aperture: 5.0 Shutter Speed: 1/100 Lens: 24-105mm Flash: 430

ISO: 800 Aperture:  4.0 Shutter Speed: 1/80 Lens: 24-105mm Flash: 430

ISO: 800 Aperture: 4.0 Shutter Speed: 1/80 Lens: 24-105mm Flash: 430

ISO: 1600 Aperture: 4.0 Shutter Speed: 1/30 Lens: 24-105mm

These are a few of the picture that I took for a photo series for the online newspaper. Basically, Jacob and Davis decided that they were going to go to Gusano's and try to complete the Big G Challenge. This challenge was to eat a humongous pizza in an hour. My job was to capture the story that went along with this. I kind of ran into some issues when taking these pictures. First of all, the ceiling at Gusano's was black. This made it really hard to reflect a light off of. The next issue I had was that somebody ripped the reflector off of the flash. This made things difficult because I couldn't spread out the light as much as I had wanted. I found the main issue to be that the light would almost be like a beam and it didn't look natural. Because of this, I had to do more editing in Lightroom than I would have liked. One of the other things that I found to be difficult was the way in which I was the only photographer there to capture the whole thing. There were a lot of things going on at one time in the restaurant, and I had to find a way to take pictures of all of it. If anything, this assignment showed be that I really need to keep my eyes open, and to be paying attention to everything. This is imperative because this is an event that only happens one time. If I could go back and do this again, I would bring a different flash and probably a 50mm lens because it was really dark in there.