Business Portrait



EQUIPMENT:
Nikon D1H
17-35mm
2 White Lightening Heads
1 285Q Light
1 Pink Gel
Pocket Wizzards

PROCESS:
In my photojournalism class I had an assignment to photograph someone who owns a business. It took me a while to remember this lady who owned a tanning salon. I have seen a couple of images like this one I had in mind. I liked the composition and perspective so I went with the idea and made it my own. At first I wanted to shoot with the tanning bed lights on, but the exposure would have been way too crazy. My exposure was 1/250 at f/22 and ISO 200. All my lights were turned down as low as they could go, so turning the tanning bed lights on would've been bad. The room I was in was the biggest tanning bed room (but was really small). The walls were a peachy, orange color, which is why I choose the pink gel. But anyways, I set one WL on a chair to the left of the tanning bed (pointed towards my subject). I layed the 285Q on the right side of the tanning bed edge (pointed towards my subject). The 2nd WL was laying on the floor (with the pink gel) pointing up towards the wall behind my subject. And with all that done, all I added was my subject.

Valentines Day Care




EQUIPMENT:
Canon 30D
70-200mm
17-40mm
PROCESS:
When everyone came into class on Valentine's Day we were told to go out and get some Valentine's photographs. At first I wanted to go to a florist, but the florist wouldn't let us shoot (though they let another student shoot, but whatever) and we couldn't find the other florist in Asheboro. But, it's alright because everyone else in class went to a florist. So then our next idea was to go to Asheboro High School. We called the HS but they said we couldn't take photos of any students, so that kind of defeated the purpose. So we started driving around, then I remembered a day care that was near my apartment. I was surprised the day care would let us photograph the children and the HS wouldn't. But, it was fun to photograph and I will be going back.

Bowling



EQUIPMENT:
Nikon D1H
285Q (2)
24-120mm

PROCESS:
For a project in photojournalism I went to the Asheboro bowling alley and photographed an elderly man who bowls there everyday. I set up one light stand on the left of the bowling lane and Joel is holding the other 285Q on the right side of the lane. I set the f/stop to 3.5 and used the 24mm and held the camera as high as I could without looking through it and I got this shot full frame.

YMCA Swimming



EQUIPMENT:
Nikon D1H
300 AF 2.8

PROCESS:
In photojournalism class we were told our assignment for the day was to get a shot using a telephoto lens and a shot that is technically a vertical shot. It was really cold outside so, my first thought was to go to the YMCA. I saw this guy swimming laps by himself near the window side of the pool and asked if I could take some photos. The only problem I encountered was that the pool was shaded all over except some spots of the pool had sun beams on it. So, I waited until the man swam into the sun beams so he would be lit for the photo.