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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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Rockin' the Rez

All of these were taken with my 17-50mm lens. I will admit right away that there is some use of the zoom on the lens but I got as close as possible and kept the camera lens as wide as possible. With the kids in the classrooms I was a able to get closer to them but it was basically impossible for them to ignore me as I asked. I joined some 5-6 year olds at lunch and they all wanted me to take photos of their missing teeth. So now I have 30 close ups of kids missing teeth. It was fun! In the dance class where the kids are moving all over the place, it was very hard to get too close but I tried as best I could until the dance instructor asked me to keep out of the way.

One thing I learned: combining close ups with a wide angle lens, waiting for the moment and expecting kids to cooperate is darn near impossible. The kids all know me now and insist on having their posed picture taken every time I am there. Today I became the subject of the entire class several times. It was fun but not all that productive. I will try again tomorrow.

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The previous four photos are all ones the kids asked me to take and are
included for your amusement.  They are cute but all obviously are posed.

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2 comments:

  1. Marc StewartJuly 21, 2010 at 2:35 PM

    Great stuff.

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  2. NIC Photojournalism CourseJuly 22, 2010 at 11:50 PM

    The shot of the girl working and leaning over the desk is nice. I wish we could see a little bit more of what she is working with. The shot shows the concentration this girl has on her work so it offers the viewer a little insight.
    As for taking pictures of kids, it's not impossible, you just have to wait them out. There are thousands, if not millions, of pictures made everyday that have kids in them that aren't looking right at the camera, and aren't posed. So I think somewhere along the way photographers figured it out. You just have to stand firm on telling them that you are there to get candid shots and you don't take pictures of people mugging for the camera. But once you give in and start snapping shots of them acting cute, it's hard to break that precedent.

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