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 insulting them left and right. These guys seem to be living through the Old Testament in the Bible, and giving little to no regard to the New Testament.

Apparently these two men have the power to perform Miracles but they physically can’t do them in front of a bunch of sinners and non-believers. I thought the whole point of the Miracles in the Bible were to help people believe, was I wrong? Also, apparently the majority of red-headed people will not go to Heaven because they refuse to believe in God. These men explain to us that they both have “God-given authority” to judge each and every one of us, but we do not have the right to judge anyone ourselves.

Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m sure in their head’s they are trying to do the right thing, but they are just going about it in the completely wrong direction. Honestly, I’d be able to take them, Brother Jed at least a little more seriously if he wasn’t always talking about his past sexual conquests, at the drive-in, in the back of his “Father’s 1954 Chevy Bel Air, with leather interior.” Their methods of preaching just don’t touch people’s hearts like they should, instead they are hardening their hearts by insulting them and degrading them verbally in front of everyone.

Flickr Slideshow-Editorial Events: Brother Jed and Brother Joe Visit UCM

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 and had to stage them for a shoot.

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 some photos using a Q-Flash.

Flickr Slideshow-Editorial Portraits: Ashley and Grace

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 needed.

Flickr Slideshow-Editorial-Sports: Track Meet

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, and used an LED Sparkler light to bring out the details in the gemstones. Overall this was a challenging, but somewhat fun type of photography I never thought I’d try.

Flickr Slideshow-Editorial Jewelry

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. It was pretty fun getting to shoot them too.

Flickr Slideshow – Editorial-Events: Haiti Relief Concert

Flickr Slideshow-Concert Series: Jelly Jam Band

Flickr Slideshow-Concert Series: Our Last Chance

Flickr Slideshow-Concert Series: Holy Mountain

Flickr Slideshow-Concert Series: Life In Jersey

 

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 from the shoot.

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 on a Canon 1D Mark IIN. That camera was lke a machine gun, shooting 8 FPS (Frames per second). Here are some of my favorite photos from the shoot.

Flickr Slideshow-Editorial: Mules Basketball Practice