fill assignment

For the fill portion of the assignment I went to peace park, where I had shot part of my direct flash assign because I remembered when I had tried to shoot there before that it cast a lot of shadows with all the trees. I found this guy, Shane, taking a smoke break on the bridge and struck up a conversation with him, mainly because he had a hat on. For my select, without flash, his face was completely dark. It was lunchtime and the sun was really bright. I tried direct flash on him to fill the shadows under his hat but didn’t like the way it looked on his skin. On the select, I used my hand to bounce flash into his face. I wanted to leave enough shadow to make it believable but lighten them up enough so you could see the detail in his face and the reflection of the leaf he was tearing up in his glasses.

multimedia example

http://www.mediastorm.org/0024.htm

For a class assignment, we were supposed to find a multimedia slideshow that we thought was well done. This is a slideshow that I think is very powerful. It is one that I have seen before and have always remembered, partially because the topic itself is so haunting and partially because the way it was put together makes it even more powerful.

color correction

MU junior Katie Woods talks to a coworker about lunch plans. Katie originally was a photojournalism major but then decided to dual major in forestry and fisheries and wildlife. She currently works in the Division of Applied Social Sciences designing brochures.

This assignment was to get us to learn how to do color correction in camera. This picture was shot under fluorescent lights with a green gel on my flash to get the green tint of the lights out of the picture.