oh life

So it's been a pretty interesting week, photographically and otherwise. Unfortunately I don't have many pictures to show for it though. I had my photo shoot with Jordan and one of the lights fell over :O sad times. Needless to say, we didn't get many pictures in and I was pretty emotional. So these two are workable images ... better yet, poses that I wanted to try with different lighting but couldn't. So I'm going to have a reshoot with her this week and hopefully everything will go more smoothly this time.

But now I have moved on and I actually purchased my own light (yay!) and strobe (yay!) and umbrellas and light stands and the list just keeps going. So I already have two people scheduled for Thursday and Friday of this week and then I'm working on scheduling someone for next week already as well. This semester is almost over already, oh no. I've decided it's going to be okay though, the surprises keep coming and I keep dealing with them, it's nothing I can't handle :)

first official sportraits

My first official sportraits, aren't you excited?! Haha, I am :) I am still having mixed feelings about this project though. I still can't decide what I want. I don't want them to be too cheesy but I want them to have that typical sports passion/emotion. That's what I love most about sports, the passion that goes into them. So I need to find that in relation to these sportraits. I need to find my passion for them as well. I've just been so frustrated with the little problems (that there always seem to be a lot of!) and I'm letting them get the best of me. I just need to keep remembering that these are my first portraits I've ever taken with lights I've never used in places that are some of the hardest to shoot in. I will get better.

However, I am adding another personal goal to my list for the semester. As I figured out at this shoot, not that I haven't gotten it before, I need to be louder. When we were in the gym with other people and lots of noises, my voice disappears. One of my 7th graders at Claremont told me the same thing last week, I was talking too softly for her to hear me. And I've been told that forever, so I guess we'll see if I can work on it. I mean I'm going to have to if I want to be a teacher. On Wednesday, I was helping a group of three 7th grade boys with a worksheet using PEMDAS. One of them got SO excited when he finished it and had done the whole second column by himself with me just checking it. And Justin, my personal favorite, was like "Yeah, it's because she's just a great teacher!" awwwww. It made my heart melt. And it's times like these I remember why I want to be a teacher.

Because lately, photography has been taking over my life. This past weekend I shot for the Special Olympics Saturday and Sunday. And Tuesday I met with a fellow Clarkie who's running for City Council in Worcester and I am going to be his campaign photographer. So that'll be a new experience for me but I'm excited :) Photography is what I love. But so is teaching. I'll find some way to make it work. I'm sure there are still plenty of chances for life to surprise me.

Back to the real reason for this post, the actual pictures. I'm happy with them considering they're my first shoot. However, there are still things I need to improve on to get better for next time. And I've accepted it's always going to be that way, there's always going to be something I could've done or should've done better. So for now I am happy with these :) I picked my favorites I guess to post here. But I don't remember if last time I said I'm also posting all of the pictures I've edited from each session on flickr so here's the link for that http://www.flickr.com/photos/31463212@N04/?saved=1. Hopefully that works. And for this time, Eileen and Dave were very wonderful to work with and for that I'm so incredibly grateful. Everyone has been wonderful through all this. And though it was a stressful Thursday, it was definitely a productive one. It all worked out in the end. And with that in mind, I know I'll get through this project and this semester :)

it's me!

Haha, this seems to be a reoccurring theme lately - but I think that's a good thing :) I found this before break but forgot to post it, well actually I didn't really find it. Kevin actually told me about it, he saw my picture in the paper and saved it to show me. It's very exciting :)

http://www.telegram.com/article/20110227/NEWS/102270503

Anyways, this weekend was the Winter Olympics for Special Olympics so I shot basketball skills drills yesterday and basketball games today, fun times. And I thought I was done with basketball, but I think this time I officially really am. However, I did have a break through, of course, at my last game, to change the white balance on my camera so I don't have to do it to every single one in RAW. Sadly, I don't have my new pictures to post yet, I'm editing them tomorrow in the lab because my laptop still isn't calibrated yet. But I have more people lined up for this week and the snow is starting to melt so maybe that means I can go outside next week or soon! I really need that to happen or I'm going to be way behind and have to cram like 15-20 people into the month of April, that'll be great. And I really love snow, but this is the one time I just wish it would go away. But I think spring sports start this week as well, at least at Clark, they already started in general. So I have lots of stuff to do, but that's always how I like it :) Well, I am done talking for now I guess. I need to do statistics homework and choreograph for tap (YAY!) and submit photos to a contest thing but I'm sure you'll be hearing from me soon