As a senior, I'm graduating and going to do other things out of high school. I won't be in this high school photography program, but I am interesting in serving on a publications staff or pursuing a job in this field. That being said, I need a portfolio. I think the best way to go about this is to use my best images from different areas rather than all sports or photojournalism. I've learned multiple skills exemplified by these images such as how to take portraits, play with time exposure, waiting on just the right picture and being patient. I've had to use Photoshop to create some images, but I've also learned that the best photographers don't rely on it for a crutch. ISO: 800 APERTURE: 4.0 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/250 ISO: 160 APERTURE: 13.0 SHUTTER SPEED: 2.0 ISO: 1600 APERTURE: 2.8 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/30 ISO: 1600 APERTURE: 4.0 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/125 ISO: 800 APERTURE: 5.6 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/1600 ISO: 1600 APERTURE

ISO: 400 APERTURE: 8.0 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/200 This photo went full bleed as the double truck in the December issue. It was taken kind of in a hurry because of deadline. I basically had to do a creeper project set up like I learned last year. I had Ashley squat and hide her face for the purpose of her not being associated with the story, and act scared. I had Smith stand and act as a shadow. I used a 600 on the camera just as a trigger for the 600 on a light stand. I beamed the light at eye level and had it to my left behind Smith. Originally we metered for the shadow first. Once we got that setup, we set up for Ashley, so she would be exposed correctly. Once we tried to do that, the shadow was very light and faint, so we brought the ISO up to 400 from about 200. Then it came out like this. Our newspaper adviser wanted this to be a nice wide shot, so I used a 10-24mm.

I took portraits of my friend for a Christmas present for his parents. I normally wouldn't blog about this assignment, but I have a critique.  ISO: 400 APERTURE: 4.0 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/80 Color correcting this was sooooo hard, and I don't even think I did it right. I like the image, it was just really hard to process and edit. I used the preset white balance settings, but they didn't help much so I changed the warmth to give it some more color because he looked washed out. He almost looked a little pink, but I tried to fix that to the best of my ability. I was happy with how it turned out, and hope it's a good gift.

ISO: 400 APERTURE: 11.0 SHUTTER SPEED: 1/250 This is the original cover photo I took for this newspaper issue. Tyler Snell was our hand model, but he wasn't much taller than the girl subject. So, in order to make the image look right, we had to hide Tyler behind the girl subject. In order to make his hands look dirty and gross, he rubbed them in some dirt and put different shades of brown and black eye shadow on them. To edit it, I ran the contrast up and clarity. There's a filter on it that the newspaper kids decided looked good. We still haven't decide on a font. This is the almost final product.

In class I had to create a time lapse picture of Conor Diggs for online newspaper. I didn't know how I was going to do that, so Smith and I decided to make a gif file. Oh, cool! That'll be fun and a new experience! No. It wasn't. Gifs are the worst file type to ever create. First off, I screwed up from the beginning, because I took every picture with a different camera. (Credit for at least using the same lens in every picture.)  First, I took all the images individually and renamed them in the order they needed to appear chronologically. I got on YouTube and tried to find a video about how to create an animated gif in Adobe Photoshop CS6. After I cheated and used the 'levels' to touch up exposures and merged the edits, I selected window>timeline and inserted new frames from layers. I had to make sure they were all proportional, but because I edited them on different computers, they were different file sizes. I used command+T and held shift to not distort