ISO: 1000 APERTURE: 4.0 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/80 The freshman were really timid and scared to come out of their shells which was bad for pictures. They just look bored out of their minds. I took a flash and split everyone up with a different group at the camp. The flash didn't really help much except in the cafeteria. This is just a simple shot I got in the cafeteria when the kids were listening to upperclassmen explain dances and dress up days. 

ISO: 1600 APERTURE: 4.0 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/125 I like this photo because it looks different than most of our pep rally pictures. I like the depth of field and how sharp the cheerleader is. It looks like a snapshot in the middle of a story and I can really see the emotion. I don't know if it's exactly color corrected. It looks a little orange, but this was the best I could do. I wish the crowd had been more enthusiastic. 

ISO: 1000 APERTURE: 4.5 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/200 I told my staff to take a camera and shoot while they went to pick up their schedules. I did the same because that's what good leaders do. :) I like the expression and that it isn't just people picking up their schedule. The only problem I ran into is that everyone knew me, so they didn't want their picture taken. Especially band kids since they were gross from marching that day. This is what I ended up with. 

ISO: 250 APERTURE: 4.0 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/2000 ISO: 250 APERTURE: 4.0 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/2000 I loved shooting this because the colors were beautiful and it was a perfect day. The sky looks pretty and all the colors are super bright. It was hard to get close enough to shoot because everyone stood in a giant huddle without getting paint thrown on me. Everyone had a lot of fun though. The difference between this and the yearbook cupcake fight is that everyone stood in an awkward huddle. I just had to stand on the outskirts and work it that way. During the yearbook fight, everyone runs around and it's easier to grab opportunities. 

ISO: 800 APERTURE: 2.0 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/400 Go Pro These are from the first week of swim practice this summer. I took a Go Pro and also shot with a 7D like normal. The first picture I like because they are doing something else than like in normal swim pictures. They have the boards and there's leading lines. The only thing I don't like about it is that the tip of the board is super sharp, but her face isn't.  The Go Pro was hard. I ended up with a lot of crap while trying to be creative. It was really dark, so it was hard to get good still images. When I sunk it to the bottom of the pool, it was too shallow in the lanes so it didn't focus, and it cut off arms and legs. I think we need to sink it in the diving pool and put lights on the side. 

ISO: 1600 APERTURE: 4.0 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/320 This was one of the first volleyball games of the year. We were using the 600's instead of pocket wizards. This was bad and we eventually through the season switched to using pocket wizards again, but not this game. The batteries would start to die in our flash heads because people shooting the freshman and JV games would hammer the flash. The photos ended up really dark, but this is what I came out with. Since we couldn't use such a super high shutter speed, the ball still has motion blur. In some pictures I liked it. 

ISO: 200 APERTURE: 1.8 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/4000 This is the first picture I took for our school spirit newspaper cover photo. The assignment called for just a picture with a megaphone and pom moms but an HDR. I decided that it would have more school spirit to put our tower in a bunch of dead space in a top corner just to add more flare. It wasn't exactly an HDR, but this is what happened instead. I liked this photo even though it wasn't the best, but they asked me to redo it. I grudgingly did because no photographer likes to think their photo wasn't good enough, but we work for the publications.  ISO: 320 APERTURE: 5.6 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/2500 This is the photo that they requested. This I thought was super lame. It's just grass, and not even interesting grass. I was told to put this on the practice field and take the sigma 100-400mm lens and get at the top of the bleachers. That way the grass blurs, but it didn't really work. They both look like cr...

I have been super stressed this week because it's the newspaper deadline. I had to make sure all my photographers got pictures pushed to the journalism servers so staff writers and designers could use the images. While trying to corral everyone, track down images and work with the newspaper staff, I also had to take care of my own images, blogs and do the photo story for this issue. I did this in one class period to slap something on the page just so I could get started somewhere. This is what came from this period. It still needs to be tweaked, but it's in the works. This is what I worked on all day. 

ISO: 1250 APERTURE: 4.0 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/50 I had to wake up super early to be at swim practice at the beginning of the school year to take a picture of our new coach. This is what I got. The worst part was not only that she really didn't want her picture taken, but there was horrible lighting due to the windows around the entire pool with the sun rise light. This is what was picked to go online with the article. 

ISO: 250 APERTURE: 11.0 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/320 This assignment was taken in the beginning of the year for an online story about how kids are pressured to go to college even if it isn't the right choice for them. I took two different pictures, one with the subject in focus, and one with the college in focus. This is what was used. I wish, looking back now, I would have brought up the shadows and clarity. Especially the shadows toward the right side of the photo, but I was in a super rush to get this up and online. 

ISO: 1600 APERTURE: 4.0 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/160 Pep rallies aren't my favorite things to shoot. Our gym isn't lit very well, so it's hard to keep a high shutter speed with also capturing sharp images without motion blur. The flashes help to stop the action. This is after I started in camera white balancing for the gym I wish the cheerleader at the top in the stunt was facing forward. I do like the subject's expression. 

ISO: 1600 APERTURE: 4.0 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/640 I like this picture because it incorporates a lot of different elements. I like the colors, even though orange is gross. He is framed by other players, but is still in the middle. He is the only one doing something different. I especially like that I captured the Texas flag in the left side, and the tiger tunnel is in the background. I'm glad it was still light enough to have a nice pretty sky.

ISO: 1600 APERTURE: 2.8 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/250 I entered this in the ATPI Twitter/Instagram photo contest. This was from our rivalry game in the fourth quarter when we realized we were going to lose. This player was rolling around on the ground and crying throwing a wall eyed fit. He was very upset. This game was a good game for photojournalism rather than sports for the fact our boys were crying most of it. 

ISO: 200 APERTURE: 16.0 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/200 I realized how much I enjoy taking dance pictures. Ashley asked me to take a picture of her for her english project she did over herself dancing. I was like, sure this could be a good chance to get a good picture. I had to do some last minute editing with Smith. This was the final product. We set an alien bee in the yard behind her at 1/2 power. I put a fill flash at 1/8 catty corner her right. Since she couldn't stay on pointe very long I would have to quickly move and position myself with the light behind her so that it gave her a rim light instead of just being a star like blob behind her. After this assignment, I decided to create a dance portfolio for contest which I am currently working on. 

ISO: 160 APERTURE: 10.0 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/200 ISO: 400 APERTURE: 4.0 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/800 ISO: 800 APERTURE: 4.0 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/1250 ISO: 160 APERTURE: 11.0 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/200 This is my friend from Dallas, Sydney Anderson. She asked me to take her senior pictures, so I did. I enjoyed these a lot because I didn't have to worry about making her senior pictures looking super different from everyone else's because she doesn't live around here. Her mother and two Dallas friends came as well and helped with pictures. I found this a lot easier because I was comfortable with the subject. I knew the locations she wanted to take pictures at like family houses and places like that. I had no problem walking up to her and moving her hair out of her face or telling her to pull her dressed own or other awkward things that might be harder with a subject I didn't know as well. I like the top picture because it has a lot of colors in it. It isn...

ISO: 3200 APERTURE: 2.8 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/200 The pep rally went nicely. I didn't get anything sped different because we have a ton of cheer and drill team pictures. I decided to get color guard because their pictures generally end up great. I liked this because of the leading lines of other members and flags leading to the subject. I was surprised that I got that in a vertical because I normally find that its harder to make a vertical really good. 

ISO: 400 APERTURE: 4.0 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/8000 ISO: 400 APERTURE: 4.0 SHUTTR SPEED: 1/1250 ISO: 400 APERTURE: 4.0 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/8000 ISO: 400 APERTURE: 4.0 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/1250 I was really happy that this was during the day, in the morning. I wasn't originally suppose to shoot this assignment, but I was with the video editor so I ended up taking my camera with me. I love shooting color guard because you can get really neat pictures with their flags and they're always smiling because they are performing. The only problem is that when I turn towards the sun, I have a set shutter speed, but when I turned around to shoot the girls in the stands, I had to adjust. When I turned back around to shoot the field, I forgot to adjust my shutter speed again, so my images were very dark. I thought they ended up nicely though. These were the end results.