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.