Our Final Project

Values in Scouting from Alex Giddings on Vimeo.

Our final project was about the family values in the Boy Scouts of America. It's a little longer than most, but it was one of my favorite projects. I will sorely miss my group. Enjoy!

I will upload some photos from it later. My partners were excellent sources of inspiration. Thanks for all the hard work guys!

Alex Giddings and Jon Steffens, thanks for adopting me into your photo family. I will always remember our crazy times.

Painting with Light

Painting with light ended up being a fun assignment. We had so many different ideas, so it took a lot of time and effort, but I think it was worth it. From dresses of light to the Absinthe bottle and accessories, we were all over the board.

My teammates: Jonathan Hinderliter, Pinar Istek, Sarah Midgorden and Allison Ziemba made this more fun than I originally thought it would be.

Multiple Flash

Multiple Flash was actually easier than I expected. Once it is setup properly, it's hard to mess up. Unless your synch cord falls out... =/

However, apparently, I can't burn CDs, because I added the wrong edit of the final high resolution select to the folder. I cropped one of them to see how it would look, but I ended up deciding it looked better uncropped. So, I now know I need to slow down with my cd burning. I had the right one the lab computer, but I didn't add it to the selects folder.



At the Pack 5 Pinewood Derby last Thursday, Nevin Dubinski, a Wolf Cub, Braxten Denny, a Boy Scout, Shelby Johnson, a Tiger Cub, Ollie Fox, 2, Justin Denny, a Wolf Cub, Issac Young, a Wolf Cub, Ben Fleming, a Wolf Cub and William Hawkins, also a Wolf Cub, watch the ongoing race. The Cub Scout were competing to move on to the next level of competition, which is the Boonslick District Derby on April 24. The top three from each den, both in design and speed.

dba_andea (Audio Slideshow Research)

http://mediastorm.com/0024.htm

For this assignment, we had to look around the web and try and find an audio slideshow that we thought was well done or needed work. Intended Consequences, by Jonathan Torgovnik, is about Rwandan women who experienced the horrors of the 1994 genocide in their country. I feel like this one is well done. It is tragic, but also, uplifting to see how far these women have come since that horrible 100 day period, 16 years ago.

They had to watch family members be butchered in front of them, and then have another crime inflicted upon them. That crime is rape. Most of the women feel alone and unwanted. They feel as if they've lost their dignity and self-respect. Some even cannot bring themselves to love the children that is the product of that rape. It is a little long, but I think it is a good project. The music, photographs, interviews, graphics and video all flow together perfectly.

FIll and Balance

Fill and Balance wasn't as hard as I thought it would be, but it's definitely a little more complicated to find the angles and the best way to do things.



Coca-Cola Zero representative Bryan Bennion records how much product has been given away at Lowry Mall on MU's campus Monday afternoon. Bennion and his business partner, Joel Derrigo, are in the midst of a 10-month tour with Coca-Cola Zero.

Color Correction

Ohhh color correction... It wasn't as difficult as single flash was for me, but it was still a challenge. I am now looking at light differently, and I plan on getting more practice with all the new techniques over break because I know I still need work.




Shot at F/8 1/4 ISO 500

Single Flash will bring me down

Single flash was one of the hardest assignments I have ever done. All things considered, I think I did an okay job on this assignment. It was much more demanding and harder to get used to, but with practice, I will get the hang of it.



MU students Antria Washington, Chantell Smith, Alana Young and Sierra Watson gathered together March 5 to promote unity of the student body at the Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center anti-hate rally at Jesse Hall. Following the "Cotton Ball incident", students from different groups, such as the Legion of Black Collegians and Missouri Students Association, came together to promote change on campus.



MU juniors Jill Frasher and Gwen Daniels study for their music history midterm in the Reynolds Journalism Institute Tuesday night. Frasher and Daniels have been friends since they met at Summer Welcome before their freshman year at Mizzou.

I had some more dynamic pictures of Jill and Gwen, but they either had white balance problems, the flash didn't work right, or didn't seem to work as well as I thought. I know I need to get out of my Mizzou bubble and that's what I am planning to do this weekend for the color correction assignment.


LIGHT DIAGRAM


Bounced light: F/8, 1/60, ISO 400, WB-custom
Direct: F/8, 1/125, ISO 400,WB-daylight

Metal and Glass

For the metal and glass assignment, my portion was the metal side. Check out Jonathan's picture of glass. We collaboratively brainstormed for several days, only to come out with "half-baked" ideas, before Jonathan had an epiphany moment early last Saturday afternoon. We drove around town to find an aluminum trashcan, and then ended up going to buy one at ACE Hardware.

The shoot itself ended up being a fun time.



Jonathan Hinderliter acts as Oscar the Grouch. Inspired by Hinderliter's personality, Oscar's trashcan was the perfect use of metal for this assignment. "Oscar was something that once I came up with, was something I could relate to. He kind of gets a bad rap for being a cranky guy. I know that I can give off the grouchy vibe. Not only was it a new character that was a representative metaphor for my personality, it was also an image that is immediately recognizable to people who know anything about American pop culture," Hinderliter said.

Lighting diagram:

Studio Portrait-Andie Tessler

For our second assignment, we had to take pictures of a classmate in the studio using multiple light sources. Andie and I got partnered together and we had a lot of fun doing it. She got the crazy busy me, while I got the subdued, relaxed her. She also got to be a part of a Renaissance Faire, which I am so jealous of! Here is her costume.



Did you know that Andie Tessler was a pirate for the Renaissance Faire six years ago? Andie was dragged "kicking and screaming" by a friend to a cast party in the off season of the faire and joined later. "I toured with a stage combat troupe called Canis Bellum for two seasons,' she said.

I think I like the way the red accents the picture and the expression on her face. I would not want to fight against her in a dark alley. =) Check out Andie's picture of me.



This is my lighting diagram.

First Assignment-Copy Stand and light

During the past two weeks, I learned a lot more about my camera and the concept of light as a whole. We learned how to "copy stand" an image that would lead us to "big money" one day.

These are my two images that I reproduced.



This is Canyonlands National Park in Utah. I liked the hot feeling it gave me, even though it made me long for boiling Texas summers.



This is Mauna Kea Volcano in Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. I picked this picture because it helped me relax.