Spiderman Project With First Years

ISO: 100

APP: 5.6

SS: 250

I volunteered to help the First years with their spiderman project which is really cool and works on timing. They each got a flash set it up and and a camera. They learned how to adjust the shadowing by raising or lowering the flash stand. Me and paige taught them techniques with timing and even taught them how to do the spiderman after we finally got the hang of it again. We taught them how to set up the flashes so that one is on slave and the other is on master and each pocket wizard is on the right channel. This was a really cool experience for me because it reminded me so much of how fun this assignment was with our seniors and how it really bonded us as a team. It feels good to be able to help the first years build skills and techniques that they can pass down to each class. I took a few shots myself just so they could get to experience it too.  

Heavenly Snow

ISO: 100

APP: 2.8

SS: 2000

I volunteered to take pictures of the new shaved ice place that just opened over on Richmond called Heavenly Snow. Although, the assignment was easy when I got there taking pictures was really difficult. This is not really in a good location so a bunch of hood rats started yelling at me and it was super weird. One of them started taking about the camera and I was kinda scared they were gonna like mug me or something so I just took like 10 pictures and left. The cameras settings were all messed up so I rushed in trying to fix them and the pictures weren't exposed like I wanted. I went around sun set so everything is super bright and over exposed, but I think the pictures are still usable for Yearbook, so no worries.

Homecoming Mums

ISO: 800

APP: 3.8

SS: 200

I volunteered to shoot Horticulture making mums for homecoming. They have a really small class so I didn't really have a variety of students, but I did shoot a lot of diversity. I got some pretty good shots, but the class room they were working in had poor lighting so when I first started shooting everything looked orange but i adjusted my ISO and APP and fixed it. This was a relatively easy assignment but there were some difficulties with getting creative shots because all the students were doing the same thing.  

Helping the Youngsters

Me and paige volunteered to help the first years with depth of feild pictures. They each picked pictures from flicker to recreate. Since there aren't many places to take depth of field pictures at Texas high, we took them out to the horticulture green house and each of them found a plant or a tower that was similar to the ones they picked in class and we helped them adjust settings and set up equipment. most of them had a really good idea of what they were doing and the majority of the problem was filling the frame the way we were taught. After 15 min of adjusting and setting up each of them came back with some pretty good pictures and had a better idea of their APP and techniques on filling the frame. The picture above is only one of the students we took.

Junior Varsity Volleyball

ISO: 1600

APP: 2.8

SS: 250

I was assigned to shoot the junior varsity volleyball game. This was my second volleyball game to ever shoot. I feel like I got better pictures than last time but I'm still having trouble with getting the ball in focus as well as the person. My exposure is much better than last time and I have learned to kind of expect when the ball was gonna be in the frame and when to shoot. I do like shooting volleyball I'm just a little slower picking up on the game, but I think in a few more games I should have a much better idea. I learned how to set up flashes yesterday for the first time so that was fun. It will be really useful when I get in a situation where I have to set them up first and no ones around to help. 

Cade Pearson Headshots

ISO: 250

APP: 4.0

SS: 200

I volunteered to take head shots of Cade Pearson for Newspaper. These were shot in the courtyard beside newspaper. At fist I had some trouble getting my setting right because i was a little rusty but after a few adjustments everything came back to me and the pictures turned out pretty good. Head shots have gotten really easy over the past year and they used to be something I really struggled with so that makes me happy to actually see my improvements and know that I'm getting better by each day. 

Texas vs Arkansas Peprally

ISO: 1600

APP: 3.5

SS: 160

I shot the Texas vs Arkansas pep rally and i was actually excited about this one because I thought there would be a lot of different activities going on but it was just like every other pep rally and because there were so many people covering it, it was hard to get pictures of the few events they actually held. My pictures did turn out a kind of weird color which is a problem you always run into when shooting in the gym so I played some with my settings but couldn't get them exposed right like i wanted. I asked around on how to fix it but everyone else seemed to have that problem too. I didn't get many pictures from this because there wasn't much to shoot, especially being on the opposite side of the gym the problem me and paige ran into was getting people to face our way. I got mostly reaction and crowd shots. 

Volleyball Game

ISO: 1600

APP: 4.0

SS: 200
 So this was my first time shooting volleyball and all my images suck! Managing the mechanics during this game was the hardest part for me. Every time I would turn my shutter speed up to capture better action shots it would get super bright and I didn't want to mess too much with the ISO since I was shooting in the gym. Also, another problem I had was the time it took for the strobes to cool off and get ready for another shot. every time I would get ready to take a pictures but it needed to be taken right then the strobes would lag a little bit and I wouldn't be able to get the image. I would Although my pictures weren't what I wanted it was a learning experience for me. It finally clicked at the end of the game and I started to know where to look and expect the ball to be. Hopefully my next game I will come back with better, usable images and ill get a better position to take pictures.