Lindsey Larsen 3530: March 2016

Thursday, March 24, 2016

Hard News

I joined team caucus for my hard news assignment, and to be honest I thought it was very difficult to get nice shots out of it. I know it was not quite as bad as a press conference, but it also wasn't as nice to shoot as an Entrada golf course would have been. Unfortunately I had to work during the golf tournament, so I was left with the caucus for this assignment. It was actually a great reality check as to what the day to day job of a photojournalist is like. I think that this assignment really taught me that you have to be very observant as a photojournalist because there is a fine line between getting a creative and interesting shot and telling the truth of the story. I struggled with this both in shooting and editing. Something that may seem simple like pulling the zoom up can make the room seem much fuller and change the truth of the story. I really wanted my focus with this post to be telling the true story of the caucus that I attended.

1/80 f/6.3 ISO: 100

1/60 f/5.6 ISO: 400

1/60 f/4.0 ISO: 400

1/60 f/5.6 ISO: 400

1/60 f/4.0 ISO: 400

0.8 f/5.6 ISO: 100

1/60 f/4.5 ISO: 400

1/60 f/5.6 ISO: 400

Sunday, March 20, 2016

Portrait Redux

For this shoot I used a north facing window as my main source of light. I filled shadows with a white piece of paper and some tin foil. I want to give a big thank you to my models for not getting to frustrated with me as I tilted their faces around endlessly trying to get the lighting the way that I wanted it. I think that doing this assignment again was very beneficial to me as I am learning about lighting. It really helped me see how many different things can be manipulated while shooting and by the end I think I was starting to get the hang of it.

1/60, 5.6, ISO 200

1/50, 5.6, ISO 100

1/50, 5.6, IS0 100

1/50, 6.3, ISO 100

1/60, 5.6, ISO 100

Friday, March 4, 2016

Portraits

These are unedited shots. Thanks for a fun shoot guys!

Rembrandt Lighting

Glamor Lighting

Outdoor 3-point Lighting

Editing Josh's Take

It was strange editing someone else's photos. I think it made me realize that there are so many different ways of perceiving a photograph. There were things that I would change that could very easily change the feelings of the overall photograph. When you edit your own photos you go into them knowing what you want to correct, and what feelings you want to keep in the image, but when it is someone else's photo you don't have that insight to their intentions. I hope that I was able to maintain Josh's vision while I edited his pictures.

Joshua Kaneversky

Color correction, lowered temperature, cropped to make tighter on face, changed to black and white to put emphasis on facial structure

Joshua Kaneversky

changed to black and white, softened focus, lowered color temperature

Joshua Kaneversky

color correction, brightened slightly, enhanced highlight and shadow

Joshua Kaneversky

color correction, enhanced highlight and shadow, brightened

Joshua Kaneversky

Retouched to remove light spot, changed to black and white, sharpened image, increased highlight

Joshua Kaneversky

color correction, brightened slightly, increased highlight and shadow, sharpened

Joshua Kaneversky

changed to black and white, lowered color temperature, increased highlight and shadow, slight focal editing to draw viewers to Hannah's eyes

Portrait of Me

Nicole Winona

Kellie Busse

Shooting Wide

For one of my other classes I have an assignment to get out of my comfort zone and experience things that I am not use to experiencing. One thing I decided to do for this class was not use my car for a week. Growing up my parents always took me to school. When I was older I got a car and drove myself, so I have never really spent much time using public transportation. I thought I would document this experience through my 18mm lens for my shooting wide assignment.

This assignment was actually kind of difficult for me because I constantly found myself wanting to pull in tighter on my shots. I had to get used to walking up very close to my subjects. Despite trying to physical adjust my proximity to get the shots I wanted I still felt like a lot of my shots could have been framed better or made more interesting by using a tighter lens.

ISO 200 1/200 f/9.0

ISO 200 1/60 f/5.6

ISO 200 1/60 f/5.0

ISO 200 1/125 f/5.6

ISO 200 1/125 f/7.1

ISO 200 1/250 f/10

ISO 100 1/10 f/18

ISO 200 1/200 f/8

ISO 200 1/200 f/7.1

ISO 200 1/60 f/4.0

ISO 200 1/200 f/7.1

Thursday, March 3, 2016

Shooting Tight on a Nature Walk

I really liked working on this assignment because with a tighter pull on the camera I noticed a lot of rich texture detail, which I found very interesting. I think ultimately as a journalist we have to be really careful with the shots we choose to use because as I went through the assignment I took a lot of images that are misleading to someone who can only see the image through the limits of the frame. I think we can get into a very tricky ethical dilemma by taking away the contextual information of an image through zooming. That being said I think that shooting tight can add so much drama, emotion, and even truth to an image and a story if it is used properly.

Here are some of my favorite shots from my shooting tight take. I was shooting with 55mm lens, I know that is not very tight, but it is the tightest lens I have so I did my best to make it work.