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 :)