ISO: 100 APERTURE: 9.0 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/250 This project was really fun. We learned how to use the strobes for the first real time as a class in the classroom setting. We had to set our ISO to 100 to kill all the ambient light since it was sunny and the middle of the day. Next, since we were using flashes, we used the max sync speed at 1/250. This was so we could stop action once someone jumped on the wall. This left our aperture to control how dark and bright our picture turned out to be, but we also wanted our subject to be in focus without having to focus on them last minute while they were jumping. This meant that it had to be relatively large. In this case it ended up being 9.0. This was my attempt of doing it later in the week on my own. Josh, my battle buddy, did an excellent job of posing. 

ISO: 100 APERTURE: 2.5 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/250 I tried redoing the water drop project to perfect it. This time it ended up even worse than before. I was teaching Smith's A4 class what to do, and I made a very simple mistake: I made a pinhole too big. See, for this a had a bowl of water and a ziplock bag full of water hanging above it nailed to a sturdy post. I put colored paper under the bowl and a flash to give the water the appearance of being colored. I had to set a screwdriver at the end of the water drop and focus then switch into manual focus. This way the water drops are in focus. because my pinhole in the ziplock bag was too big, the water drops were dropping too fast, ad I was catching the action right before and after the drop. Never the moment I needed. I also bumped the camera a million times and didn't refocus, so my water drop is out of focus. 

ISO: 100 APERTURE: 2.8 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/2000 I wish this image would've been horizontal. The vertical orientation just doesn't match the action that is happening in the image. I think the colors turned out extremely well. Because I shot at such a low aperture, I got nice blurry backgrounds and it helped with my coloring. This way I could have a faster shutter speed to stop the action. If I had had a wide enough lens to have the second baseman throwing the ball towards him in a horizontal picture, I think it would've turned out better. but cropping this as a square would be fine too. 

ISO: 160 APERTURE: 4.5 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/160 This is my first attempt after actually being properly taught at taking the water drop picture. We are starting six weeks projects and this is the first we are learning. It's a tedious project because of the set up. You have to get the frame and focus on an object in the water right where the water is dropping and tons of other technicalities. This time was a lot easier because the class was working together, so I could get girls to help me. To edit this, I brought up the saturation and vibrance to give a cool effect to the water. This was the best reaction shot I got, but I wish I would've spent more time on this to get a better picture. 

When asking my instructor which image came to mind from all year that I've shot, he responded with this image. My response came a little like, "Well, was it good or bad?" This image I believed to be iffy, like a happy accident. I feel that it is strong because of its uniqueness. My instructor began explaining that he felt as though I didn't have many "bad" images this year due to my good ethics in culling my own images. I look at that as a good skill I've learned this year reflecting on my work.  My instructor also responded with this image. I love this image, no doubt. This year, because of this image, I have realized what it is to be proud of your work and know what a good image is. This photo taught me what true photojournalism is and has led me in that direction. The best photos are those who don't need all their "makeup" (editing). 

ISO: 100 APERTURE: 5.6 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/10 In the beginning of the year, I thought it was really neat that I could make an image like this. The studio was very new to me, and I wanted to consume myself with it, learning everything I possibly could as fast as I possibly could. This resulted in very crappy images such as this. I could've done something neat with it and used a gel to light the background, or at least changed my aperture to get more light and make a better figure of the subject. He really just looks like a blob. 

ISO: 160 APERTURE: 4.0 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/2000 This photo almost didn't happen. I got up to the school extremely early before track practice and I didn't even have first period that day. The girls didn't realize the pictures were going to be taken on the track so they never met me down there. Thank goodness someone came to check. It was really cold and some girls weren't wearing their uniform so the coach told them they would not be pictured. I had to do this on my own so I learned to be more assertive and bossy. I had to place the girls in the rows and move people so I could see everyone. It was great because the coaches made them actually listen to me. Then I had a 70-200, so I had to back up pretty far and shoot at 200. I thought this picture, for my first group picture alone, ended up excellent. I didn't get any complaints on it!

ISO: 1600 APERTURE: 2.8 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/320 I was basically in charge of getting the crowning since all of the photographers either ditched or ended up with crap. So! This is the infamous crowning picture from the pageant. When people look back on all the Miss THS pageant winners, this is the crowning photo that will be shown. I'm proud of that and love that this image turned out how it did. I basically wanted all I could get, so I held my shutter down then quickly flipped vertical and geld the shutter down just letting everything run. ISO: 1600 APERTURE: 2.8 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/320 I WISH this was the crowning image! I thought this was so funny and I'm so glad I didn't miss this opportunity. While she was parading around in her crown, her crown fell several times and kept hitting her in the face.  ISO: 1600 APERTURE: 2.8 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/320 Other than Aimee (left), this image would've been great. I feel like Aimee takes away from the

ISO: 1600 APERTURE: 2.8 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/320 Robotics at competition was especially hard to shoot. The auditorium we stayed in the entire time only basically had modeling lamps on for lighting. It was ridiculous how dark it was, but in the "pits" or behind the scenes where they worked on robots, the lighting was very bright as you can tell in the photo. Our team did a lot of cheering for each other. I thought this depicted team spirit very well. I used a 17-50mm lens and tried to bring my aperture down as low as possible for a fast shutter speed. I didn't want the pictures to turn out super grainy, so I didn't pass 1600 ISO. This would've been a way better trip if they would've just turned on the lights!

ISO: 800 APERTURE: 3.5 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/125 I like this picture because it actually portrays the students interacting in the environmental expo. This assignment counted as a grade for my class instead of having a booth like this. There weren't many interactions because there wasn't a large crowd, but I managed to get pictures of each booth. This is good because not only is it exposed correctly, pictured is the student, a public bystander and the company official who the student is representing.