The photos on this Blog were taken as part of a summer independent study class at North Idaho College. The project was to photograph events from May through August, 2010, for the Coeur d'Alene Indian Tribe. Special thanks to Jerome Pollos, my instructor, Marc Stewart, Public Relations Director for the Coeur d'Alene Indian Tribe, and Phil Corlis of NIC for setting up this class and handling all the administrative stuff. I am grateful for the opportunity these three folks and the Coeur d'Alene Indian Tribe made possible for me this summer!

The entries below act as a learning journal and contain my feedback to my instructor, Jerome, on my various assignments and tasks throughout the entire course. His and other comments can be found in the comments section below each post. Everything is unedited and completely intact the way it was on the last day of class, July 28th, 2010, except for the Feast of Assumption section which I was asked to shoot for the Coeur d'Alene Tribe after my class was over. This section was added afterwords to completely represent my summer photography efforts.

PLEASE NOTE: Some photo sets unrelated to the Coeur d'Alene Indian Tribe have been included and were used as instructional tools along the way. These were situations where I went along with Jerome as he shot photos for the Coeur d'Alene Press newspaper.

The first section below is my final portfolio. Everything below that is arranged from newest to oldest, so everything is in reverse order by date.

Please feel free to take a look and leave me some comments. I would love to hear from you!

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Sunday, July 25, 2010

Julyamsh - Saturday Afternoon Grand Entry

All but the first few horseback photos (100-400mm lens) were all shot using my 28-75mm lens.  The lighting conditions within a quarter turn changed quite a bit.  The white tent tops were working like giant reflectors in some areas.  I was trying to get close rather than zoom since I used the 70-200mm on the Friday night Grand Entry.  There is a clear practical limit to how close one can get without creating a collision so zooming was necessary.

I hooked up with a self proclaimed photographer who told me shooting manually in this kind of setting is challenging.  She decided to give it a try also even though she would normally use aperture priority for this.  When we sat down and compared results after the Grand Entry was over and compared photos, mine came out better than hers although I still had quite a lot of over exposed photos.

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