Monday, March 23, 2009

html whacked out

I have no idea why my pictures wouldn't post underneath one another like normal, and I have no idea how to put my captions in with them because of that. Grr...ideas?

Assignment 4 Picture Story

























This is Heather McManaman, a Building Supervisor for University Recreation.

Monday, March 2, 2009

gotta love having a pc

Okay, so when I took 421, I had to download a program on my laptop to allow me to remotely connect to the journalism domain and upload my Soundslides. My laptop's gotten a new hard drive since, so I am attempting to make something work from my desktop since I can't get to a computer lab before class. We'll see if I'm successful...

Monday, February 16, 2009

Whispers in the Woods







I parked in a random parking lot and walked across a bridge over the Chippewa River. Luckily, I was able to find a trail since the entrances to the nearby parks were closed. No birds, rabbits, squirrels or deer came out to play, but I was interested in the contrast. I shot winter photos in Mt. Pleasant my freshman year in my b/w class. So I've also converted these to black and white.








Monday, February 2, 2009

Punishment?

I will master the size of my photos in my posts...
I will master the size of my photos in my posts...
I will master the size of my photos in my posts...
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I don't miss high school...

For this first assignment I chose to do two different sporting events: high school hockey and college wrestling. The Mt. Pleasant Oilers had a game Wednesday night that I shot (luckily for me I somehow managed to scavenge up $5 in quarters to get in). I've shot hockey at the Ice Arena before and have found a few nice spots to shoot photos. There are a few rare pieces of glass that aren't scuffed up to shoot from and there's open area between the end of the glass and the players' bench on either side. My dilemmas: high school students and some crazy woman. The kids were lined up all along the glass on the hot spots, and some coach's wife (I'm assuming by her appearance and demeanor) hugged the open space between the glass and the home team bench where I wanted to shoot (and she knew I wanted to shoot). I ended up shooting from the visitor side as much as I could, though there was a student there in my way opening and closing the door for the players. Regardless, I took some photos when and where I could, though I have no interest in shooting high school hockey again! The CMU wrestling match went much smoother. I was on the opposite side of the announcers that CM Life was at and one of the university photographers as well. Overall this went well except when I got ref butt in my view :)