Monday, June 14, 2010

The New Internship

I just started my summer internship a few days ago and the first photos are starting to hit the web. My internship with with NOW Newspapers or Community Newspapers Inc. This internship in unpaid with 20 hours a week of work. Its great even though its unpaid. I get to go cover real assignments its great fun!

The first photo gallery just hit the web today. You should check it out http://www.greendalenow.com/multimedia/photos/96299479.html?index=1
I will keep you all informed

I get to do some fun assignments, not saying graduation is the best, but there will be some good ones. Like photographing some Brewers players the other day. Thats not up yet. I will keep you all in the loop. As the great Joe McNally always says more tk...

Saturday, March 27, 2010

Spring Term

So spring is here. Sort of. It's still very cold, but spring is here. I am gad about next year's addition to The Knox Student's editor staff. Erin Daugherty will be joining me and she is super excited about learning. She comes in with a lot of photography knowledge, but lacking much digital and photojournalism knowledge. That doesn't scare me one bit because of her work ethic.

The 70-200mm lens was sent in on Monday and hopefully will be back on Monday. It's difficult to shoot sports with my 28-75mm being the longest lens.

I have started to write more articles and I will be writing a softball story this week and I'm glad to be doing it!

I also got a Cannon 7D. Its a whole new focus system and with my 3rd party lenses it isn't very reliable to get focus unless on the simple spot focus mode. But it still is a great improvement from my old camera. The ISO range is great even if theres a large amount of nose in the upper register. Also the ability to HD video is going to come in handy because of the growth of importance in multimedia in journalism.

I took a 200 level photojournalism course last term and for the final project I photographed the Knox baseball team. This involved a lot of indoor shots and a focus on emotions more than action. Unfortunately the shot i picked this time is more of an action shot.