ISO: APERTURE: SHUTTER SPEED: I learned a really cool technique while taking this photo. I used bracketing and took three different pictures. One a third stop under exposed, a picture perfectly exposed and a picture a third stop over exposed. I did this twice. I did it with a lit match and with a blown out match. I out the two images (one lot match and one burnt match) in Photoshop. I made the flame the background then put the burnt match on too of the flame with the magnetic lasso tool. I then used the opacity levels and blended the two images. After fixing the pictures, I turned it black and white and played with the colors to create this! 

ISO: 800 APERTURE: 2.8 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/250 Everything I've shot lately is some crap. I haven't been worrying about the quality, because I've had such a huge workload here lately. This is basically a visual representation. I have about 8 gigs of basketball and baseball to process and this was not my top priority. I tried to get a real cool artsy picture, but the bar is just cutting across her face. This could've been better if I had gotten under the robot and focused more on the girl as the subject.

ISO: 125 APERTURE: 8.0 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/320 I wasn't specifically happy with either of my pictures. I feel like if we worked them differently, they have the potential to be wonderful. I envision the two flags as the background floating and getting a tighter shot of the people being hung from their mid thighs or waist down. Maybe not all the people in the back unless they're cheering with their signs. This was way too dark.  ISO: 125 APERTURE: 2.8 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/2000 (+.33) If Jake could have marched better and opened his eyes, this could've been great. The crowd needed to be spread farther across so that there seemed like more people following them. The guy on the left is looking at me, but I guess since this isn't going in the yearbook it's fine. 

ISO: 800 APERTURE: 4.0 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/500 This picture was for an assignment, but I wish I could say I had this idea myself. I need to start thinking like this more and being more creative. The sky in the back, and the background were so pretty. When I got a picture of everyone leaning backwards out of the circle, Lauren Maynard was looking at me every single time, so I couldn't use them. I wish I would've told Coach Stone to move to the back of the circle so I could have gotten her with the team. I like that the girls are laughing though. It would have turned out better if the girls could've poked there heads up more. I didn't want the cliche picture from under the group looking up like we had of drill team, I wanted to lean over the rail and get as close to a shot of looking down as I could. I'd like to stick a camera on a monopod and hold it over them while they're leaning back and looking up laughing. 

ISO: 1600 APERTURE: 4.5 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/320 I really enjoyed this basketball game. I feel as though this shot is different than what my photography program normally gets in a basketball game. This picture frames our player. You can't see the ball, but you can tell that he has it because the opposing players are defending him. You can't see any of the player's faces except ours. It would have been really cool if the fans in the bleachers were cheering, but considering it was a huge win, no one was surprised. The batteries eventually started draining and I had to switch them out at half, but that wasn't a big deal. I don't like that this is a straight butt shot of number five, but I do like the reflection in the floor. I wish I noticed that and had gotten his whole reflections some how, but it's so fast  paced its hard to think about those things. 

ISO: 800 APERTURE: 2.8 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/250 I am basically the T-Bots photographer. I will be going with them to Searcy in March for their competition ad have gone every other day to their meetings to get the process of them shooting the robot. This picture came from the first day when we went to lowes to buy materials. I like this because it's not in a classroom and they aren't just doing normal things. The picture is interesting and in a cool position. I sat in the back of Matthew crawfords truck with a 10-24 to get this of them loading materials in the truck. My pictures inside didn't turn out too swell. I couldn't get in their way, but it's hard to shoot people who are just looking at things on shelves. 

ISO: 1600 APERTURE: 4.0 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/400 This is the first basketball game that I've gotten to shoot. I love basketball!  Especially the boys because there's more action. I chose to blog about this picture because it shows from a different angle. Our player is midair. I love the new strobes. The only problem that I ran into was that there were kids sitting on the left strobe and jumping to make it move and touching it so I had to make them stop. Then at the right strobe, the student section was turning the strobe off or makin it face the wall, so I had to get an administrator. I did a bad editing job because my pictures are a third stop under exposed, but other than that I thought my shots were tight and looked good. 

   I was in charge of audio for Shop with a Cop. I was important for getting interviews with Target staff recorded along with some police officers to get how they felt about the event. These are what we based our video slide on. Kelsi also got audio, but she mainly got filler audio to put stills over.    I had the lovely task of editing the video. That was a grande mistake. This was so stressful. We did it on the laptop so all during break Carlie had the laptop, and I was unable to obtain it. When we got back from break I finally got the laptop, but it didn't have the pictures on it. So, during class I had to hound the class until they all moved their photos over to the "Shop with a Cop" folder. Once that was done, I had to move them from the Drobo to the laptop desktop so that I could take the laptop home and work on it. First, I did the audio slide where I took clips from the interviews and sounds that Kelsi and I recorded and pieced them together to tell a story. I

ISO: 800 APERTURE: 3.5 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/250 So, I was outside watching the sunset and had my 10D. I thought the sky looked a little weird, obviously. It had been storming all day during break. When I put this in Lightroom, I brought the blacks down to darken everything, kind of like my nature picture in my "30 Project" blog. In my versoin of Lightroom the exposure and highlights are grouped together, so I pulled them down slightly, and I brought down my whites. Next, I brought up my vibrance to extreme the weird colors in the sky. I don't really know if you can tell that spot at the bottom is a pond, but I'm proud of this picture.

ISO: 200 APERTURE: 11 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/200 For my first time using Photoshop and even attempting at trying to do anything cool in my bedroom with photography, I'm proud. I put a white poster board behind the camera and set in on sheets of white paper. I used a 580 flash and had it set to 1/32 power in manual. I turned out all my lights and took the picture. At first I started around f/8, but then realized it was too bright, so to balance it out I had to bring it up about two stops. I really enjoyed using the 10D because it's helped me to understand stops a lot better.  I put this image in Lightroom 3.3 (the only version I have) and edited it like a high key picture. Ruth tried to show me how to do this, but ultimately I had to figure it out on my own when I got home. I copied the camera as the background layer then pulled in the skyline picture. I had to use the magnetic lasso tool and I tried to feather it, but I didn't know how to move and straighten it out o