Category: JRN 420
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Fashion Focus
Here we go, an introduction to fashion photography. An area of photography that I think is so prominent in our daily lives that we often look over it, and don’t realize how common it is. The atmosphere of our class was a mix of nerves, time crunch, and laughter. Location was a ton of fun,…
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Lights, Camera, Action
Jessica Brockert, 19 of Macomb, Michigan poses late September 23, 2014 in the softball fields of Island park in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan. She often practices or plays games in the community park’s fields with the Central Michigan University club softball team. Holding a busy game schedule for the season, Brockert does not have a free…
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Location Lighting Set Up
The softball location lighting shoot was done at dusk through the night with little to no ambient light. This caused some problems, mainly with working with the strobe settings (not easy with unknown buttons) and the getting the focus perfect. Auto focus won’t work, so manual focusing was done with a cell flashlight on the…
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Location Lighting at CMU
Portraits of CMU students were taken for the first location lighting experience in class. With in class activities usually comes struggle, and just slight struggle was had in our team of three. We were given two speed lights to work with, one if which would not properly. So we were left with one main light,…
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Behind the Scenes: Back in the studio
Jessica: Lighting was set up with the main source on the right with a soft box. Another strobe was placed behind the subject and the light was adjusted to create rim light in some cases, and a fill light in others. An additional strobe was set in the front left corner positioned away form the…
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Back in the Studio: Assignment #1
Jessica Brockert, 19 of Macomb, Michigan is entering her second year on the Chippewa Club Softball team of Central Michigan University. Softball has been a part of her life since she was 4 years old. In addition to the current season, she has played over 20 seasons of the sport and plans to continue…
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Eyes Ahead
The beginning of the 2014 school year brings me to the studio again, a place that excites me and that I feel comfortable in. I have a special interest in the studio and use of artificial light. I appreciate the control that it lends the photographer which essentially opens the door to a new way…
Kaiti Grant 