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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Friday, June 18, 2010

Coeur d'Alene Tribal Police

I think there is some improvement in this photo set. Hopefully you do to, Jerome.


What I thought I did well:

  • I thought the first two photos with Detective Sam were fairly good.  The rest are more or less posed portraits since all we did was cruise around in his car and nothing really happened to take photos of.

  • The last photo in Chief Hutcheson's Office is also interesting but I really ought to have switched to a wider lens since I could not move back any farther.  Time ran out and it did not happen.

  • The second and third to the last photos with the Marine Police guys are also pretty good in my opinion.

  • Overall, I think I did well with filling the frame with the subjects.  I got close and think the photos turned out better in general because of it.

  • I got my in camera focus points moving around much quicker so I did not have to focus and recompose very often.  The photos turned out much sharper as a result.

  • It was a fairly uneventful day but I thought quite a few of my photos made it look somewhat interesting never the less.
What I did not do so well:

  • I am still not very fast at changing my exposure settings in a new lighting condition (switching from indoors to outdoors or from outdoors to under the boat canopy or in a vehicle).  The first two or three photos after each switch were over or under exposed until I fixed it.

  • I still do not recognize a good opportunity very quickly.  There were several times that I recognized something would have made a good photo right after it was over.

  • Removing clutter from my photo is not anywhere near second nature yet.  I took several photographs of Chief Hutcheson before I shifted positions and got his computer monitor and other stuff out of the frame.
I will be returning for a few more hours with the Marine Police in a week when the weather is nicer.



Hanging out with Detective Sam Abrahmson
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Back at the Police Station in Chief Keith Hutcheson's Office
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On patrol with the Marine Police
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