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Advanced Techniques: Single Flash

Bounce Flash: Mayoral candidate Bob McDavid answers a question at the forum held Wednesday evening on the University of Missouri’s campus. Audience members provided the questions for the candidates at the event jointly sponsored by the Missouri Students Association and the Associated Students of the University of Missouri. Renters rights and downtown security cameras were hot [ READ MORE ]

Advanced Techniques: Metal and Glass

“Bad Dog” A news aficionado’s nightmare – coming home to find that your dog Rocco or Princess let loose on the house and destroyed the Sunday paper before reading it – may soon change with the  industry’s uncertain future in print. And here’s the lighting plan. *** Part of me wishes this photo came out more stylized, and the [ READ MORE ]

:: yawn ::

I could really use one of these signs for my life this semester. It’s been non-stop since day one with emails and classes and meetings and photo shoots and editing . . . phew. Just thinking about all the things I’ve done so far makes me exhausted. The funny thing? I’m loving every moment. I know [ READ MORE ]

Advanced Techniques: Classmate Portrait

Missouri senior Jonathan Hinderliter shows off his sunglasses during a portrait session on February 13, 2010. Hinderliter balances his love of fashion, shoes and shopping with his sharp personality, cynical tendencies and a penchant for arguments. Lighting diagram for my single-light portrait. I like arrows and stick figures. Reminds me of this. ***** Sorry for the unannounced intrusion, [ READ MORE ]

I’ve been a bit busy.

Way too many days have passed since I’ve last updated. Hopefully I won’t let that happen again. There are so many awesome things going on, and lots of pictures to go along with them. There’s also a ton of emails. My phone just buzzed again – it’s 11:43pm on a Friday night. Such is the semester. Somehow, [ READ MORE ]

And then there was rest.

My first semester as a graduate student is complete. Holy moly and little fishes, it’s complete! It’s hard to imagine almost, remembering how I’d sit around all day long – when I wasn’t in class – reading article after article for class, falling asleep while reading said articles, and writing papers every week on what I [ READ MORE ]

I can see the light!

While this mess has since been cleaned up (mostly) and the paper handed in (I got an A-), it pretty well illustrates how my semester has been (and continues to be). Right now I’m waiting for 162 RAW files to process to place into a time-lapse of contra dancing. I hope it works. I’ve never done [ READ MORE ]

APME 2009: We came, we saw, we covered.

Last week seems like a blur. One minute I was running around my apartment making sure I had A. enough clothes and B. all my photography equipment while trying to finish up a Fundamentals project, go to class, attend meetings and apply for next semester assistanships. [more on the Fundamentals project later.] Then I found myself driving [ READ MORE ]

Photo stories are easier to edit when they’re not mine.

Almost midnight, Monday. This week’s (well, and last week’s too) project for Fundamentals was the classmate project. [cue scary music] We picked names out of a box for a round-robin style photo assignment, where I photographed someone, they photographed someone else, who was photographing someone else, and so on. The goal? Tell this person’s story. Whether it’s a [ READ MORE ]

MPW.61: Adventures in Festus and Crystal City, Missouri

I promise, blog readers – I’m not neglecting you. This last week was full of extra work to get ready for my adventure with the Missouri Photo Workshop. I’ll catch up on my outtake from class assignment #2 and my CPOY entry once I get a chance. Until then, on to MPW! (This is an evening [ READ MORE ]