A little globe.

So I saw people doing this on flikr and decided to try it myself. It's a long and arduous process (as is anything fun in photoshop) but it's got a great result. I made maybe ten of these, but this one came out the best - probably due to the nice amount of grass that I could stand in the middle of. It doesn't work nearly as well with a lot of buildings or tall things, it's better if the any objects (trees, buildings etc.) are enclosed in the frame. Which is very difficult with the lens I have! So this is Crystal Pond, otherwise known (to all Clark students anyway) as Dead Hooker's Pond. Although I hear that the dead girl wasn't actually a hooker, so... call it that at your own risk, I guess!

Oh, the things we do for STIR...

This is what happens when I have to take the photos for the "Reproductive Health and Choice" section of the "Clarkies with a Cause" STIR article. No one could think of what to do for photographs for this section, so I went old school sex ed and, well... you can see for yourself.

I better get some kudos from the other photographers for being the one to finally break down and shoot this! :)

Elm Park

I took these on Friday for STIR magazine's spring issue, so the goal was to make the fact that it's winter and the ponds are entirely frozen as inconspicuous as it could possibly be. I didn't even have any blue sky on Friday to help me out so I could focus on that and try to avoid the ponds, so the writer of the article and I decided that the best way to go about this was to use sepia tone. That way they maybe look like they're historical photographs, and it's not as silly that it's clearly winter. It was actually fun to be able to take shots from the middle of the ponds since they were so frozen. I was a little nervous the ice would break and I'd fall in and destroy my camera (not to mention most likely get hypothermia!), but luckily I didn't and the shots came out pretty well. I guess if I want to recreate them after the ice melts I'll have to find a canoe somewhere!

Senior Photos

My brother will KILL ME if he finds these online, so let's pray he doesn't google my name, shall we? He won't let "professional" photographers anywhere near him, so I took his senior picture for his yearbook. They had to be black and white for the yearbook, so I worked them up that way. I really like the way they turned out, especially the horizontals.




And this last image is an example of something I had to deal with often while shooting him. Most of the photos I took were him making very... un-Senior Photo-like faces! To get him to smile naturally I cracked a lot of jokes, which is actually a technique I've started using when shooting other people, too. It works really well once you figure out the right kind of joke for the person you're shooting.