Hello. So let's see what I have to say this week. These are obviously Clark basketball pictures from the girls game I went to. I have a contact sheet to show in class as well. But I really think this one at the bottom is my favorite basketball picture I have taken thus far. Sadly, since I don't know much about basketball and the game is so fast paced I honestly cannot tell if it's a rebound, after a foul shot or an actual attempted shot. I mean I do shoot with burst so I could go back through the pictures and try to find out, which I think I will - but I can only do that in the lab unfortunately. Anyways, I also really like the top image because it's different than what I've been able to capture before and you can see her face so much more. I was in the "endzone" for these ones and in some instances it worked well but it's also very hard because there are always so many players around sometimes it's difficult to isolate the action. Someone's arm or leg or entire body always ends up getting in the way at the precious perfect moment and it bothers me. But I guess that's sports, haha. I also an in conflict about whether or not I like the way the light is reflecting on the court. I think in some instances it can be very distracting and I might burn it down? I don't really know. But I guess that's not really important.
These are two of the pictures I did end up submitting to the Scarlet this week, but I am at home this weekend so I'm not sure if it's out yet - it wasn't Thursday when I checked. But this will be my second issue and I'm excited. I'm having a lot of difficult writing captions though. It's really hard not to be repetitive and I don't know enough of the language not to be. I even tried searching basketball captions online and they all tend to be repetitive. I am easily getting sick of shooting basketball though. This was only my third game and the shots seem very similar and I get easily bored at the game. I'm not sure if it was just my mood that day but I really wasn't as excited as I normally am to take pictures. I think it may have something to do with the captions too because I feel like those get very repetitive so I think my pictures are very repetitive but they're not really. And I do definitely have room to improve so I should keep trying. There's the "Clark Tournament" on Monday at least I know in the gym so I'm going to go to that. Hopefully it'll re-inspire me.
I'm just having a lot of trouble getting back into this. The winter sports schedule didn't work well for me and there weren't many games or a variety of sports in general. It just seems difficult. But spring is just around the corner.
In other news, I still have not been to see the gallery which is depressing - I hate not having a car and being afraid to walk there by myself. But I am definitely going Saturday - I know that. My parents and my boyfriend are coming up and we're all going so I will finally see it then if not Tuesday when another friend from home may come up. I just have been having mixed emotions about everything. But I have decided on the fact that this is a big accomplishment for me and I should be proud of it and I should want other people to see it and be proud of me too. Which brings me to my next point - Frank thinks I should start my own website. I'm excited, I just have to figure out how to do everything.
I really like the layout and design of this one. Not like I really know much about website design. I just really like her photography in general. I have no idea how I even found this site either. She obviously does posed portraits and shoots, weddings and such. But I just really like the emotion and excitement she has in each picture. There's just so much happiness. Anyways, that's not really important. This is an incredibly long blog post. I should probably go. I'm going to see Valentine's Day today! YAY! And we're also going to Olive Garden, which is amazing. I'm excited :) I just always seem to have so much going on in my brain but I have difficulty putting it into blog form. Everyone who reads my blog says that it read likes I'm talking to them and I feel like that's a good thing? Because that's my personality but I don't know if it should be more formal than that? I mean the idea is to work out ideas and such in our heads so if rambling and writing about whatever helps me I guess that's a good thing. So yup, until next time :P
ps: is this a more acceptable color for my header? I don't want it to be like black/gray/brown tones - that depresses me. I want some color on the page :/
If you were getting paid to shoot Clark sports, would you even consider such? How was Olive Garden?
ReplyDeletehaha, I'm not sure what I just did. I didn't mean to delete my comment. anyways - Olive Garden was delicious. I had the five cheese ziti :)
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