Game Day

Randleman High School's Tanner McGee, 12, stands at the mouth of the cave before going on to the field. Tanner is a quarterback for Randleman. The angle guides your eyes with the leading lines and the low angle gives the "larger than life" look. I wanted to try something unique and show an angle that most spectators don't see. Here a player has to think about what and how he is going to play a game he has to consider what kind of player will he be. This is also that final moment when a player gets hyped up and prepares for what's ahead of him.

Now I Know Why Everyone is Doing it

After an exhilarating night; of a really nice photography exhibition, I heard music down the road. Of course I had to go investigate. Drums pounding and people were dancing. I saw this to be a good opportunity to try a technique that I “practiced.” We tried it out as a class last semester but I really didn’t take it any further. The technique is to combine a flash and a slow shutter speed. The trick is to have the flash set to rear curtain sync, doing this allows one to have the slow shutter speed but the flash does not fire till last possible second of the exposure (simply put.) In this style, it appears that there is a ghost following your subject.had never really tried agree, before I shot the images I thought the technique produced “odd” photos. However, I think that it is after this technique is practiced that the images are of this style are fantastic, though I do believe that with many photographers this style can be and is over used. Bottom line, you can like or you can leave it.

 Now I know why everyone is doing it.

Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys

Cowboy stands at a train while smoking. This guy found me. I was working on an assignment, interviewing a guy and he walked up, was interested in what I was doing. We talked for a little while he agreed to let me photograph him. He also told me he likes trains. So we went to the train cars in town (not on the tracks.) Got some very cool images. This one was the most story telling to me. I wanted to give the sense of a "freight-hopper" traveling America by rail road cars. My lighting was a 12 inch soft box close to give the sense of a street light the smoke was just icing on the cake. I shot this for a Multi Media project

Asheboro High School vs Wheatmore High School

Desmond Trogdon (Blue) for Asheboro High School has a clear shot to the in-zone as his team mate Jalen Ettson number three for Asheboro hold the defender back. Its that time of the year. Football players slamming into each other for the great American sport that many gather to cheer the team on. Friday night skies are filled with lights from stadiums. Cheerleaders cheer with every good play as they try to get the crowd hyped up. Boys pound fist and shout to see who can be the loudest. Yes this sport is truly an American sport that I have the honor of covering.

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future." JFK

Up until this point my confidence level has been ok, with the exception of summer semester. This semester we are introduced to Multimedia, in this we combine multiple types of different media, bet you couldn’t have guessed that. Being used to photography this idea of audio combined with moving pictures and audio introduces uncharted realms for myself. However, with the guidance if our instructor and my classmates we will be able to work through this and succeed. The reasoning behind multimedia is because most photographers are expected to do this now. I am learning very quickly that much like sharks, we photographers must learn to move on and like a Chameleon we must learn to change to quickly adapt to our environment.

Today's blog was brought to by the number 1.

Back in the swing of things. School started back this semester and in our Digital Photo class we were given an assignment to photograph the umber 1, 2, and 3. Also we had to have individual frames of something red, green, blue. In the import process we had to add the proper keywords, certain words that are embedded into the image making it easy to identify the photographer, location, date, time, equipment used and much more. With this assignment I wanted to stretch myself and do macro, I don’t have a lot of practice with the type of photography that makes small things big but I wanted to get comfortable in it, so I practiced while getting school done.

Trump Rally in Charlotte, NC

The Trump rally in Charlotte North Carolina was
a heated one. My first rally that I have been to before. Our instructor, Jay Capers, told us that if there was ever a candidate to come to North Carolina to go a photograph it. So 3 other classmates and me went to Charlotte yesterday to see what went down with the GOP candidate. I have to say, not what I expected, 2 men were stirring up the crowd that was waiting to in line to get in to the Charlotte convention center. Tempers got ugly and voices got ugly. But it surprised me to see a few go up to the Hillary supporters and shake hands and act like they were friends, many lessons to be learned for their actions.