Week 10 Photo Challenge: Open Challenge

For this week’s final photo challenge with it being left open to us to do anything, I decided that I wanted to make it look as real as possible that I was actually in my direct field. So for the challenge I looked for a photo online of sports photographers on the sidelines doing what they do best of taking photos of the game that is in progress. I set my camera up on my tripod with my high definition telephoto zoom lens on the camera as well so it would match up with the other photographers in the photo as well. I took my Nikon 35mm film camera and put it on me down to my side so it looked as if I had a back-up camera as well and I also put on my press pass to make it look as legit as possible. I then had an assistant capture a photo of me using my Iphone 4 taking multiple photos of me set up in the position of me to be taking photos on the sidelines as if I was really there. After taking enough photos and looking through them to make sure that there is one that was usable, I uploaded the photos into my computer and did some small exposure correction in bridge. After that, I took the touched up image into photo shop and cut myself out of the original background and placed myself into the photo that I found online. I did some resizing of the image of myself to make sure that it fit well into the image and that I fit correctly. After I got myself into the photo I went back into the exposure levels and did a few more adjustments to make sure that it looked all natural.

Week 10 EOC: Mission Statement

The first mission statement that I was able to find that actually is a decent one came from a photography company called Visage Company Photography & Media. When it comes to their mission statement they are being forth and honest about what they do and how they make sure that they achieve what the customer expects and wants. In this particular statement they are not rambling on and on about pointless nonsense that doesn’t get their point out there of what they do and of what is expected of them as professionals. They succeeded in making themselves and their website a little more interesting to continue to look at. Here is their mission statement: Visage Company Photography & Media’s goal is to stay above the photography industry’s standards and provide exceptional, one of a kind photographs to our clients. We create meaningful and beautiful images, while providing a pleasant, patient and understanding attitude towards our clients. We'll honor services and products described and agreed upon with our clients, while maintaining a high quality of service and work with reasonable prices compared to our competitors. Visage Company Photography & Media will abide by and observe laws pertaining to doing business in the industry and never sacrifice quality over quantity. We develop partnerships with clients, so they know that their photography and media needs are being met, and that every job is a success for Visage Company Photography & Media and our clients. We believe that Visage defines your look, your style, or the way you present yourself. Your look. Your style. Your image. REDEFINED. www.visageco.com/mission-statement

The second mission statement that I found is for a company called Latvis Photography. This is again like the first one that I found that basically gets directly to the point of who they are and what it is that they provide. I find it much easier to be able to look more into a company when they are more forward about what it is that they provide to their customers service wise. Here is their mission statement: Latvis Photography, a San Francisco-based commercial photography business, is committed to operating a profitable and growing business by producing higher quality products, at better prices, delivering our goods and services faster than the competition. Since 1978 Latvis Photography has been meeting the diverse photographic needs of Bay Area businesses and individuals. We specialize in executive portraiture, product, event, and architectural photography; providing photographs for use in advertisements, annual reports, brochures, magazines, websites, etc. Latvis Photography works in partnership with free-lance talent, utilizing state-of-the-art technology and exclusively employs only those vendors who exercise an aggressive recycling program. Lats Latvis, Principal of Latvis Photography, received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the San Francisco Art Institute and an M.B.A. degree from Golden Gate University, School of Business. www.latvisphoto.com/miss.htm

  

Week 9 Photo Challenge: Legendary Photo

For this week’s weekly photo challenge I had to come up with the idea of how to create a legendary photography. I had one idea in mind on how I wanted to accomplish this challenge, but after some serious consideration on how to do it I didn’t feel it would truly fit this assignment to well. So after I had seen another classmate’s photo I got a different idea of how I wanted to create mine. Since I plan to become a famous sports photographer and I plan to someday work for the Dallas Cowboys directly, I went just a little different way. I wanted my photo look and represent as if I was walking on the red carpet for a show or award ceremony. I wanted my background to look like the walls that all the celebrities stand in from of when the paparazzi is trying to get that great photo. So I made sure that I had myself dressed up nicely to look like I was really going to an award ceremony. I took my snuggie that is a Dallas Cowboys blanket and pinned it up over the door in my apartment and then set my camera up on the tripod. I decided to use my smallest lens that I have which is my 50mm lens. I had my ISO set at 100 and the f/stop was at f1.8 with the shutter speed set at 1/125 of a second. I took many different shots to try and get the perfect legendary shot. I did use all the ambient light that I could in my apartment plus I felt that I may have needed that extra bit of light so I also used my 560 off camera flash with a soft box diffuser to help give that softer look to my skin.