Today was my second weekend interning for the local paper; last week I just went with the chief photographer to a football game, but this week they gave me more stuff to do.
First, I shot a portrait of a girl with pink highlights in her hair, who's supposed to get suspended from school on Monday if she doesn't color them back.
The photo will run front page tomorrow, pretty happy about that. Below the fold I think, but still. A1!
Then I went back to the office, edited those, etc, and waited until the football game, then went to that and shot it. I used the paper's 70-200 2.8 instead of my 4.0 - the focusing is much better, but I wasn't too psyched about the tripod collar at first. It's not too bad though, and it gives my flash a whole f/stop of a break so the recycle times are shorter. It's still not long enough most of the time, though.
This is the photo that ran today:
And here's some outtakes:
   
  
Finally, though not for the paper, I attended a seminar held by Glenn Hohnstreiter for my photography club. Very nice guy, willing to give people advice and talk about anything photography, and amazing work. His Cibachrome (from 4x5 and Hassy 6x6 Velvia 50) prints were like nothing I've ever seen, the colors were just epic. Only real life looks better, the inkjet stuff I've seen isn't even close.
He's actually switched to inkjet because the costs of cibachrome are so prohibitive, but he still captures on film and scans. Part of the appeal for me is the surface, so there might be an inkjet super gloss paper that looks similar.
Then, later on, a few of us went out to the Bisti wilderness area to shoot a few hours before sunset and stayed out until dark.
   
I shot more on film since I can get bigger prints from it, so most of my better ones are probably on that.
Anyway, just wanted to kind of write up and illustrate what I did this weekend. It was a lot of fun. |
