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...