Photo Essay

For Photojournalism, our final project is to do a photo essay. We have to take a series of photographs that tell a story which will also be narrated in a three minute time period. My project is on my great aunt's mother, Mrs. Park, a 105 year old. She is an amazing woman; they both are. So many wonderful, interesting stories, and still the memory to tell them.

Here is an example of a shot I took today while experimenting and photographing her. 

Got my holiday portrait! You should too!

Tonight, my brother and his dog Cooper came in to get their holiday portrait taken on our set! I decided I'd go pose with them since he's my twin. :) Cooper definitely stole the show; he is so precious. Jealous, aren't you?

PhotoCatcher on Etsy

I found a photographer, Paul Harrett, on Etsy who does some beautiful landscape photography. He does HDR, macro,  and infrared. He likes to hike and camp in remote areas and of course, photograph them, which is something I would like to do someday. Check him out!

Facebook Fan Page

I now have a Facebook fan page where you can view my work and see what I'm up to! Visit it here. See my work from my first year at Gwinnett Tech and what I am working on currently.

Fill Flash Photoshoot

Our next Photojournalism assignment is to use fill flash. I tried and failed a few times this weekend, but I was lucky enough to have amazing friends, Jeremy Barton and Starr Petronella, help me achieve a better photograph. We had a lot of fun and hopefully I got my shot!

Shooting Starr (haha, get it?)

Starr

Road Trip In December

So like a lot of people, I love road trips. After all the hard work I've been doing at school, I am going to treat myself to a vacation for several days in December. I will take my boyfriend with me, and we will hopefully be going to states I've never been to before. With portfolio in mind, I hope to get lots of awesome and unique pictures on our journey. Now all I gotta do is figure out where we are going... Arkansas, Missouri, Kentucky, Ohio, I just don't know. Any suggestions?

It's time to get your holiday portrait!

After weeks of preparation, the Holiday Portrait set is complete and the portraits have begun. Everyone's hard work has made this beautiful set possible, and we hope you can join us for your portrait this season!  We still have several days available for you to get your portrait done with us, so come on by and support the Gwinnett Tech photography students!

Our class (missing a few) and a couple of our teachers

Photographer Clement Sainte-Rose

I found this photographer, Clement Sainte-Rose, on Flickr. He has a lot of nature photographs that I absolutely love.  He gets in really close and has a lot of design and color qualities that make the picture amazing. He has just beautiful work that I recommend you check out.

Internship Etiquette

Since we photography students have our internship coming up in the Spring, I thought I'd share an article I found through Mac-On-Campus. It tells what to do and what not to do when interning for a commercial photography company. It shares advice for both sides of the internship (intern and company), so read up and get prepared!

Garage Sale Masterpieces

ACP tweeted a link to this Newsweek feature. It is about a series of photos found at garage sales that are just awesome! Take the time to look at each photo and read what John Foster has to say about them. I found it very interesting.