Goodbye 5th Quarter!

We had to make a farewell video for his class covering everything we've covered and learned this quarter. I feel like I have really learned a lot so here it is!

Today is the Day!

Today Gwinnett Technical College is hosting a teleconference with Gregory Heisler! He is an incredible photographer who has graced over 70 covers of Time magazine! Denis Reggie (a well known photographer in Atlanta) has been working with Mrs. Harkins here getting everything ready for Mr. Heisler. I am really excited to hear what he has to say! More to come, soon!

Low key

This is the image I first posted to inform you of my low key assignment. While I really liked it, and it was in the batch I edited down to show Mrs. Harkins, she chose this one...



So this is what I turned in for the assignment. Mrs. Harkins gave me valuable advice. Lynn (my model) originally had her hand in her hair in this image. Mrs H. asked me to remove her hand and crop closer in from the right side. I think the image turned out great!

Sport Redo!

Atlanta Photojournalism Seminar

While I did not make the time to go to the seminar itself, I have enjoyed looking at the winning photos. Enjoy!

Good bye Polaroid....

It's such a shame they made this decision. I always enjoyed and benefited from the Polaroid back when using a 4X5 camera. We will definitely miss you! Tracey Willis took the money she was saving for a house to buy as much Polaroid film as she could. Check this page out! She takes one picture with the film everyday and for a year and has made a book of it called "Day by Day." Some of the images are cool. Some of them are lacking. Either way, it's a cool idea!

Fashion Shoot

This is one image I took of one model for the fashion/fantasy/glamor assignment. This is my friend Rob. He's got lots of cool tattoos but it was just too cold to shoot him outside with out a jacket! I'll be putting up my second model soon!

Makeup

Stevie Dubose is a photography friend of mine. I let her shoot me for a fashion/fantasy photo shoot. This is what I did for makeup. I am really excited to see her final project! She already has a few of them up so check it out!

I was such a cute kid!

For Finch last quarter we had to do a life story. I wanted to use a bunch of old pictures because me and kerri were SOOOO cute! Anyway, my great parents bought me an Epson scanner/copier/printer. It worked great for scanning old photos! I am really excited about the break and having some free time to really fix up some of these old memories!

Here's my latest assignment for Multimedia II. We had to make and post a video about photography. It was really fun! Hope you enjoy it! Click here for a few more poker pictures!

So with the end of Thanksgiving, Christmas is fast approaching. One of my favorite holiday past times as a child was to drive around with my grandparents looking at Christmas lights. Now that I am all grown up... I love taking night shots of the lights! Here's the first of this year!

Another Environmental Portrait

Again, I used my dad for an environmental portrait assignment. This time the assignment was for photojournalism. The cutline, "Walt Pinder, the Dean of Instruction at the local Altamaha Technical College gets ready to hit the road on his motorcycle while on Thanksgiving vacation."

Wedding Portraits

Today in Advanced Portraiture Class Mrs. Harkins lectured about wedding photography. It is something I never thought I'd be interested in, but her speak got me thinking. If I were to approach wedding photography like photojournalism I would enjoy it much more, I think. I've only taken wedding pictures for close friends. But while looking at several wedding photographers in class, I found myself thinking.... I could do that! Dennis Reggie was one photographer she pointed out. I enjoyed his pictures very much!

Texas Hold 'Em

I am really enjoying my final photojournalism project! As I am shooting the players, I am getting to know them. Its really fun, although they do like to pose at times. The colors from all the neon beer signs and such are great! I am excited about the final project. You can find a couple more pics here.