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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Saturday, July 10, 2010

CDA Tribal Marine Police

Alright, I think I kicked butt "getting the moment" this time around.  There is a friend of yours in this set and a local celebrity.  Those should be worth extra credit!  I could not meet your 50 photos or less challenge this time around but I will try again next time.  Sorry about that!  I hope you can find at least a few you like in here.


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5 comments:

  1. NIC Photojournalism CourseJuly 13, 2010 at 12:33 PM

    I don't think you're fully understanding this 50 or less challenge. It is to force you to be more selective in when you press the shutter button. It isn't meant to just be some way of giving you something to do. Case in point, you have six shots of the balding guy getting a write-up from the cop. There are a few that are redundant. The last shot doesn't do much for the shoot. The one with the lady holding the dog isn't anything except a lady holding a dog and looking at you rather than the cop. Another one the cop is holding his hand out and another one he's licking his lips.
    You're coming along in your shooting, but if you don't challenge yourself to some of these tasks, you're not going to further your abilities.

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  2. Marc StewartJuly 13, 2010 at 3:59 PM

    I think some of these photos do an excellent job of showing the tribal police performing their duties. Others feel like your slightly out of position from a marketing perspective. Faces, faces faces.

    Keep up the good work.

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  3. NIC Photojournalism CourseJuly 13, 2010 at 8:02 PM

    Please don't tell me he needs 1,000, dime-sized faces by the end of the month Marc.

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  4. NIC Photojournalism CourseJuly 13, 2010 at 8:04 PM

    I think one thing you need to do in these blog postings are to include theories you don't quite, get, lessons that you tried to include and what you learned from the shoot and want to do better on the next assignment.

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  5. Marc StewartJuly 14, 2010 at 1:30 PM

    That's funny Romer. I guess I didn't word that very well. What I meant was that he needs to zoom in and capture the face. It feels like Andreas is too far away from his subject. You can't capture the emotion of people's faces if you're two miles away.

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