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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Benewah Medical Center 20th Anniversary
I think I got some great shots here. Much better than before in my opinion.
What I did well:
I think I did a better job of getting close and removing clutter from my photos. Some of this is because I used two cameras, one with a 24-75mm lens and the other with a 70-200mm lens.
I felt more comfortable getting into the middle of things to take my photos. Quite a few of the people at the event know me now and I think they were more comfortable having me there also.
What I did not do well:
This is not obvious because my bad photos were edited out but I still have trouble getting my camera settings right after I move from one lighting situation to another. I still screw up the first two or three shots every time. But I am getting more confident in the exposing the hand technique.
I am still having trouble with the bright white background of the tent. Out from under the tent, my photos consistently turn out much better. I do not have a good feel for a well exposed subject that has a white background or strong back lighting. I still tend to underexpose these and do not have a good feel for if a photo works or not from the display on the camera.
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