My Hometown!!!! Sweet Home Oregon!

Sunrise over Foster Lake in Sweet Home, Oregon on Wednesday November 9th around 7:00 am. Foster Lake is an iconic part of Sweet Home, with many tourists visiting in the summer for Jamboree weekend.

Sweet Home High School's conditioning class out on the Husky Field track Wednesday November 9th. Their goal is to run a mile in less than 20 minutes. 

Kelsie Olhausen at work making coffee for Sweet Home's local coffee shop "Sunshine Espresso" on Monday morning, November 14th. Kelsie just recently graduated from Sweet Home this past year and is currently going to LBCC. She's not sure what she wants to go to school for however, and just plans on working to save money. She has worked at Sunshine for about a year now. 

Week 6 "Free Shoot" Photos

For this assignment I decided to do an environmental portrait.


Gym staff member Jamie Fraizer starts making a smoothie at Steelhead strength and fitness center in Sweet Home, Oregon on Friday November 4th. Janie has worked at Steelhead for over 3 years now and is in charge of creating new drinks as well as other regular gym duties such as washing towels, and helping local gym members.

 

                        Jamie Fraizer 2016.

Week 6 Blog forum questions

TOPIC 1: MY HOMETOWN

1. The town I'm going to be photographing is Sweet Home! I'm photographing it because it is my hometown and I feel like I can get some really nice pictures

2. Ideas that I have for a portrait subject would be getting a picture of someone working out at the gym there in town or someone who works at the gym there, a staff member. For a landmark I would obviously have to do Foster lake. Just because it's so iconic and a lot of people in the summer come to foster specifically for boating. For an activity I could get a picture of the Saturday farmers market. Or something high school related.

3. The biggest challenge for me would probably be the portrait subject just because that requires me going up to someone and asking them if it would be okay if I took their picture for my photo journalism class.

TOPIC 2: PHOTO EDITING

1. Two tips I learned from reading this chapter would be one, "Crop the Excess". This applies to what we have learned in class about using photo shop and getting rid of any excess stuff that we don't need. It says if a person's expression gives the picture sparkle, zero in on the face and cut out the peripheral material. I can apply this to my hometown project for the portrait subject. If their face has a good expression on it then I can use that technique to draw the person in who is examining my photo.
Another tip listed in the chapter is to be Intimate. By intimate they mean to make the reader feel close to the situation or in-tune with the subject. My goal with this would be to make the reader feel as though they are actually there. I can use this technique when I am taking a photo of the landmark or the activity photo.

Week 5 News/Feature Assignment

LB student Kiersten Doggett shops for some clothing on Wednesday October 26th. She is majoring in Art and this is her second year at Linn Benton community college.

First year student Anna Gaskey squats down in front of sale to look at shoes that are being sold.

















Students and faculty gather around tables in front of the LBCC library for a one dollar clothing sale on October 26th at 11am. Proceeds are going towards the American Association for Woman in community college. However the sale included both men and woman clothing.

Week 5 Blog forum

   The photo story that I chose to do was "She's a Lady Boxer".
What made the story compelling and what basically got my attention, was the title. The pictures as well helped in the sense that it made me interested in what the story was about. The picture of her in her prom dress with her fists up is what essentially got my attention.

   Two challenges the photographer faced in getting the photos, would be trying to capture that perfect shot of Maricella, whether it be at her home or in the gym. Another challenge I feel the photographer Scott Strazzante had was picking out photos that were flattering to his subject. There is one photo in the story that is not all that flattering of Maricella. However, I feel as though he chose it because he didn't want to glamorize what her sport (boxing) actually consisted of.

There was a theme and visual consistency yes. The photos taken were in black and white and also did tell a story. His photos allowed us to get an inside as to what her life is like. It sort of gave us an idea. For example from her in the gym training, to her in the boxing ring, and her even at home watching a video of latin boxers while holding a teddy bear.

The work he needed to do beyond taking these photos, was to make sure he chose photos that complimented what his goal was to telling a story and to make sure that the photos were appropriate and went with what he was trying to portray.

Techniques or approaches that I can use in shooting my photo story would be to try and make sure that I take photos that will hopefully tell a story of my subject. An approach I would like to try is to get some personal "behind the scenes" photos. I would also like to do my story in black and white because I feel like it gives a more dramatic effect.

Topic 2:
My photo story ideas, are to shoot workers from my gym and another possible idea would be to shoot the worship team at my church.
For the gym, I could do it over the course of a few weeks, at my gym in Sweet Home.
For my worship team, I could do it over the next two weeks at Community Chapel in Sweet Home.
I could go about documenting both of these by just being present and seeing what shots would be good ones to take. I would of course need to get started by asking if it was alright if I sat in, or observed what my subjects were doing.

The Tale of Tim

Does the name Tim Burton ring a bell? Of course it does.

Ranging from “Corpse Bride,” “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” “Edward Scissorhands,” and his latest work, “Mrs. Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children;” Burton is iconic when it comes to dark and mysterious movies, most of which include a Halloween theme.

“Psychologically his films are quite compelling as the characters act out the stories and fears of our youth, of the adolescent compulsion to fantasize and construct elaborate ‘what if?’ scenarios of doom,” wrote Niamh Coghlan, in her article “The Imagination of Tim Burton” for Aesthetica Magazine. “Visually his characters tend to be fractured in appearance, distorted in size, and aesthetically disturbing.”

Burton is an American director, producer, writer, and animator. According to IMDb, after graduating from the California Institute of Arts, he took his first job as an animator for Disney. His first few films he worked on were “Fox and the Hound” and the “Black Cauldron.” However the first film in which he became in charge of, and was granted by Disney to direct by himself, was “Vincent,” an animated short film about a young boy wanting to be just like Vincent Price. It was narrated by Price himself, and won several awards.

From there, Burton went on to make other films, such as “Frankenweenie” in 1984 and “Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure” in 1985. He wanted to create something new, and did not make any films for three years, until he received the script for “Beetlejuice.” However, his next movie “Batman” starring Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson was Burton’s biggest box office hit to date!

“Burton is a true visionary. Our culture usually doesn’t use that word for people whose visions look like cartoons and go down like dessert, but Burton is spitting in the eye of our culture while simultaneously celebrating it,” wrote David Breskin from Rolling Stone. “That’s the fabulous, odd thing about his work: He’s angrily spitting something sweet.”

To this day Burton is still known, and will always be known for his sense of style. In fact, most of his films are based on drawings he made as a kid, according to the “FW”. Burton is also one of Hollywood’s most well known directors capable of invoking us with a dark and mysterious feeling.

To quote Tim Burton on his work: “I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.”

Fun facts: Burton is actually “married” to Helena Bonham (also known as Bellatrix Lestrange from “Harry Potter”). They aren’t legally married, however in an interview Helena mentioned that they “live together in separate apartments.” Weird right?

The Tale of Tim

Does the name Tim Burton ring a bell? Of course it does.

Ranging from “Corpse Bride,” “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” “Edward Scissorhands,” and his latest work, “Mrs. Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children;” Burton is iconic when it comes to dark and mysterious movies, most of which include a Halloween theme.

“Psychologically his films are quite compelling as the characters act out the stories and fears of our youth, of the adolescent compulsion to fantasize and construct elaborate ‘what if?’ scenarios of doom,” wrote Niamh Coghlan, in her article “The Imagination of Tim Burton” for Aesthetica Magazine. “Visually his characters tend to be fractured in appearance, distorted in size, and aesthetically disturbing.”

Burton is an American director, producer, writer, and animator. According to IMDb, after graduating from the California Institute of Arts, he took his first job as an animator for Disney. His first few films he worked on were “Fox and the Hound” and the “Black Cauldron.” However the first film in which he became in charge of, and was granted by Disney to direct by himself, was “Vincent,” an animated short film about a young boy wanting to be just like Vincent Price. It was narrated by Price himself, and won several awards.

From there, Burton went on to make other films, such as “Frankenweenie” in 1984 and “Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure” in 1985. He wanted to create something new, and did not make any films for three years, until he received the script for “Beetlejuice.” However, his next movie “Batman” starring Michael Keaton and Jack Nicholson was Burton’s biggest box office hit to date!

“Burton is a true visionary. Our culture usually doesn’t use that word for people whose visions look like cartoons and go down like dessert, but Burton is spitting in the eye of our culture while simultaneously celebrating it,” wrote David Breskin from Rolling Stone. “That’s the fabulous, odd thing about his work: He’s angrily spitting something sweet.”

To this day Burton is still known, and will always be known for his sense of style. In fact, most of his films are based on drawings he made as a kid, according to the “FW”. Burton is also one of Hollywood’s most well known directors capable of invoking us with a dark and mysterious feeling.

To quote Tim Burton on his work: “I have a problem when people say something's real or not real, or normal or abnormal. The meaning of those words for me is very personal and subjective. I've always been confused and never had a clearcut understanding of the meaning of those kinds of words.”

Fun facts: Burton is actually “married” to Helena Bonham (also known as Bellatrix Lestrange from “Harry Potter”). They aren’t legally married, however in an interview Helena mentioned that they “live together in separate apartments.” Weird right?