Editorial Assignment 6-Event: Brother Jed and Brother Joe visit UCM

Brother Jed and Brother Joe visited UCM’s campus April 20 and April 21. They claimed that their goal was to be bringing the student body closer to God, when in fact they were pushing more of them away. They were both constantly hammering down on the LGBT people at the school, mocking them and just [...]

Editorial Photography-Assignment 4 (Re-Submit): Sports-Baseball

I’m redoing my sports assginment. I went out and shot the UCM Mules baseball game vs SBU Bearcats. Here are the photos. Flickr Slideshow-Editorial Sports: Baseball

Editorial In-Class Exercise: Tethered Food Shooting

For this in-class exercise we were learning how to shoot tethered, that is shooting directly to our computers. In this class we were shooting food. We used Alien Bees lighting equipment to light our sets. Our professor, Jerry Schmidt, baked some delicious breads and brought them in. We the constructed our own sandwiches and salads [...]

Editorial Photography-Assignment 5: Portraits

For this assignment, I got together with Shayla Lee, Kris Walden, and JP Richardson to do a little portrait shoot out at Cave Hollow Park. We had two lovely ladies as our models, Grace Griffin and Ashley Fairfield. This shoot was alot of fun. We mainly used reflectors for our lighting, but we also did [...]

Editorial Photography-Assignment 4: Sports

For my 4th Editorial assignment, I chose to use my Track Meet Field event photos. This shoot was particularly interesting because I got to use a Canon 1Ds Mark III and a Canon 200mm f/2.8 lens. I also obtained a Media Pass which allowed me to go into off limits areas to capture the shots I [...]

Editorial Photography-Assignment 3: Jewelry

For my 3rd Editorial Photography assignment I chose to try jewelry photography. This category proved to be a bit of a challenge. I had to find a way to get soft light, and to get the gemstones to sparkle a bit. In shooting this assignment  used the EZcube setup to give me soft diffused light, [...]

Editorial Photography-Assignment 2: Event

For this assignment I decided to do a shoot at the Haiti Relief Concert here at UCM. All proceeds from this event went toward helping the people in Haiti. At this event, four bands performed: The Jelly Jam Band, Our Last Chance, Holy Mountain, and Life In Jersey. All of the bands were pretty good. [...]

Alien Bees Lighting Shoot

Today in Editorial Photography, we were introduced to the Alien Bees lighting equipment. We were also introduced to the Pocket Wizard radio slaves as well. After the demonstration, the class was broken up into three groups, and were set loose for 35 minutes to experiment with the lighting equipment on eachother. Here are my favorites [...]

Editorial Photography-Assignment 1: Travel

Ths is my first Editorial Photography assignment, Travel. I did a photoshoot downtown KC and got some pretty interesting photos. Flickr Slideshow – Editorial-Travel: Kansas City

Editorial: Mules Basketball Practice

On Tuesday, February 2nd, our Editorial Photography class met over in the Multi-Purpose Building to do a photoshoot of the Mules Basketball Team practicing. Overall the shoot was pretty fun. I started out using my Canon 5D Mark II with a 70-200mm lens, but about halfway through the class I got to get my hands [...]