WIU vs. Arkansas

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Over in Arkansas with football. Plane ride was pretty smooth and I was surprised how easy check in was at the airport. With all my gear, figured I'd get searched but it actually went by quick.

I'm in the hotel now with Ken the sports editor. Went downstairs to get some shots of the walk through but I guess one of the coaches decided otherwise. Not a big deal.

Heard some pretty thick accent's. It's my first time in Arkansas. Well we got to see if we can get on the bus to head over to the stadium.

Oh yeah, we got stuck in the back of the plane so no window for about 2 hours. Fun.

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I'm sitting down in the Tanner laundry room wishing I did this last night. Got the trip to Arkansas tomorrow and heading out at 9am so I NEED to set a few alarms for the morning. Only about 4 minutes left according to the drier. Would have done this yesterday but didn't have any quarters only to realize I could just use my card. Hmph.

Well production night went a little smoother. We got out before midnight so that's a plus. Didn't really have any photo assignments today besides taking a picture of a truck. It wasn't doing anything so, yeah, not really worth posting. I was just shooting it for this geothermal article I interviewed and typed up today. Speaking of which, had a ridiculous thunderstorm this morning. The poncho did nothing for the legs and shoes. Thought I was gonna die with how loud it was getting.

The article was okay but nothing special. I guess my goal of writing one article a week worked out for this week, next one... not so sure. Laundry is done. I gotta get to bed.

Hey, I am sitting outside...

Hey, I am sitting outside the Courier 'cause Sarah is giving us a ride. So, I am bored and Jotting and I want to see how long this thing last and here comes Ed and I don't know what he's doing but, yeah looks ____. iIt's Ed. listen

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Decided to check out the CUPP block party this evening. I already sent one of our new photographers out but just decided to go check it out. I guess it's just one of those things where I have to get used to not shooting the majority of the assignments.

I checked out her shots when I was there and they were looking alright. Had a lot of posed shots but I told her the type of shots we'd need so she should be alright.

I got there pretty late so the light was low and I was shooting at ISO 1600 for the most part but it turned out okay as long as the pics aren't huge.



Just looking at the caption right now. I was trying to find out who the kids parents were but couldn't. I had them spell their names but I don't think they were 100% correct so I probably wouldn't run them except in an online slideshow maybe.

Speaking of which, I need to get an online photo store organized and start handing out business cards too. All in all, went alright. Would like a press pass but I do alright without it.

Flying out to Arkansas Friday at 9am.

Move In Day 2008

Just a quick video I made of Move In Day a few days ago. It's my first news video and hope to get better as the year goes on. Well I got an article to start writing so I gotta go.

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Late Night

Finally got out of the office around 12:30am. Definitely sent my assistant editor home way too early because after Martyn went home, got pounded with assignments. It was definitely a rough one but it's done and hope it turned well.

We had our first photo meeting today. Had 1 new girl who writes, designs and shoots so that's pretty good. Seems dedicated. Martyn and I still need to advertise the meeting to get people in. Dave came back too and sent him out on an assignment. I felt like a bum since I had to go cover volleyball that just happened to start when my photo meeting started.

Volleyball was okay but I definitely need to get into the swing of things and work on my timing and angles.

Well, it's 2 days till Arkansas and since it's 1:30am, I should get to bed.

EEOC Class

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First photo meeting tomorrow at 6pm. Probably send out reminders. Spent near the whole day in the office outside of class again. STILLLLL deleting old files from last year. So glad I'm almost done.

I just had one assignment today. Went out to Horn Field Campus with Rob for a story he's doing on the EEOC class. Forgot what that stands for but it's a 18 credit hour semester long RPTA class that involves camping till December. I mean, I like camping and think the idea is cool getting away from the city and all but don't think I could last that long. I mean, maybe if I could use solar power to charge my camera batteries and a laptop so I could still get online, maybe...



A little something I picked up on during my internship, detail shots. Gotta start doing more of these for photo packages. Now that I think about it, didn't really do any for Move In Day. Hmmm.

This was also my first assignment using the 28mm f/2.8 lens I bought in May. It was okay. The f/2.8 was nice and it was a lot wider than the 50mm f/1.8 I'm usually stuck with in prime. Still, it seemed a little restricting at 28mm but definitely usable. I'll probably be using this thing for a while till the 16-35.

Probably heading out to Arkansas on Friday with football. I think Monday is Labor Day too so that's good.

That Fall Sports Preview from a few days ago was out. I didn't adjust enough for the print so the pics turned out a little dark. Bah, gotta adjust that for next time. Ken says he's got idea's for features so I'll have more chances.

Only got 1 class tomorrow at around noon so probably work out and get breakfast. Enough South Park, I'm going to bed.

Yeah, so it's 1:15am, watching ping pong, gold medal match. I gotta find someone to play with on that table in the rec.

Well watched 2 stoner movies the past 2 nights, good times, funny stuff. Don't smoke myself.

This weekend has been insanity. It's rough but far from impossible. This ping pong is intense. I've just been covering move in day for the past 2 days. Don't think that makes sense but yeah, busy busy. Ma-Lin WINS! Wasn't paying attention.

Tonight was First Night Fun. It's this carnival type thing the school has the first Saturday. Made to give students who don't drink something to do I think. I got there pretty late. Honestly, didn't really feel like going after all that shooting the past 2 days but it was okay, pics were okay. Pretty sure I killed my flash. It's weird. Earlier in the day, I was over at Camera Land and one of the guys was talking about how it might be safe using my Nikon flash on my Canon 20D now but it could still fry my camera later. That's really odd. That happened last time with something. Hmm.

Well what happened was I was shooting this rotating ride at around 9:30pm so it was pretty dark out. I tried to add some flash to get a cool effect but after one of the shots, heard this LOUD pop. Hope the flash didn't blind anyone. Had a weird smell too. Tried the flash a few hours later, yup, still gone. Luckily, it was an old used $65 SB-24 but still, it was a great flash for off camera and I'm kind of sad it's gone. Just lucky nothing happened to my camera. Hope I learned my lesson. Looks like it's back to Canon flashes for me. Arg.

Wow, gold medal basketball is live tonight at 1:30am. I probably shouldn't watch it all but probably will. Led Zepplin is playing at Bejing's Closing Ceremony?? Just seems odd.

But yeah, Flash is gone, I'm done messing around with that. Thing is, I still have my Gadget Infinity triggers and since it's wireless I should be alright.

Besides that, I think I'm done shooting for the weekend but I'm sure some random thing'll come up tommrow and I'll end up shooting it just in case.

As for being the photo editor, it's pretty different. A lot more responsibility but I like it. My goal for the year is to teach my photog's everything I can. Every picture in the paper represents me in some way, good or bad. If I teach em well, we'll be fine, if not... well that won't happen. Next semester anyways. I'm pretty sure we have the Sunday off since we're just running the Friday paper again. Hopefully a meeting on Tuesday and sure hope we have MORE PHOTOGRAPHERS. Martyn and I need to recruit. Go to classes, make posters, whatever.

Oh yeah, I'll be in Arkansas next weekend :) Yay. Get to travel with football on a plane! Really wish my lens would come in but I doubt it.

Well I'm going to watch this gold medal basketball game and go to bed.

Alright, so what I'm...

Alright, so what I'm saying right now is going to be turn into text and I'm gonna get an e-mail about it .but what I'm trying to do was go to my blog and it would read it and this is the end of the message. listen

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Fall Sports Preview shoots

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Finished up the fall sports preview portraits. I wanted to use some motion but I guess I'm kind of glad I didn't. Herb's shoot went well. Martyn and I had a ton more time to set up unlike the other two.

First one we had was a volleyball shoot around 12:30, Monique Houston.

Had 2 strobes set up, 1 dies. Frig. I ended up just using the 1 with the snoot, 8 inches I think. In retrospect, kind of wish I just shot it wider. Beam was really tight and can't really see enough of her.



Wait a sec. I had a soccer one right before that at 12:25pm. They ended up kind of overlaping and we (Martyn and I) had to work quick because both girls had practice right after.

Well on to the soccer shoot, Ashley Hoch. Wanted to get close to a stationary ball and have her kick it with the strobes. Problem is that second strobe died right before this since Martyn and I were testing the lighting.

Used the snoot again and got a spotlight just to the left of her and had her juggle the ball. Umm, ignore the quality. I got to learn the downsize in CS3.

Turned out okay but could've been better.

Right after that, we had the volleyball shoot where I was standing on one of the boxes shooting jump height. The net was making a big black stripe on her. Should've used the higher light stand but yeah, gotta learn to work quick. I know now I guess.

And finally Herb Donaldson, running back for football. We ended up using this one.

We had a few hours before this shoot so I had time to charge the batteries and think up some ideas. We were thinking something in the locker room since the only time we had with him was around 5pm, too bright outside. Before that, tried the weight room, didn't work out so well. Just him sitting on a bench. Nope.

Went over to the locker room, used Martyn as my light stand. First shots weren't firing. Ends up his had was covering the sensor. ( I was optical slaving it) The shot up top was because of that. (no purple) Oh yeah, forgot to mention I was using Rosco gels. Anyways, I liked it.

I tried him jumping Heisman but didn't really turn out either. Kind of funny though. He was a good sport.

We were done with the shoot in about half an hour. Then just headed back to the office for the insanity of the first production night of the year. Looking forward to it.

adios...

Making a pretty big move. Getting thr 70-200 and 16-35 and second 20D. I REALLY need to step it up and get that portfolio up. Hope this works out. I'll be heading back to western this Sunday. Probably heading out early so I can watch the track events. Glad i'll be in the dorms this year. Really need to focus and get those grades as high as possible. Along with the internship credit, i'll only be taking 3 classes this fall.

wow. just watched the womens gymnastics all around final. Americans go one two. spiffy. Well friday is tomorrow which means TRACK IS STARTING!! whoooohooo. Its weird. Im usually only watching track but the other sports have been great. Guess thats what happens with good journalism. NBC really did their research.

cont. bought soon. had to split it since my phone doesnt have enough space. im watching the olympics now tring to figure... nevermind its a replay. Its past 2am and i should really get to bed. oh yeah' pardon the grammar, im typing on the cell phone qwerty on the rumor. g'nite.

HEY! Finally figured out how to get the blogger text screen working so I can finally blog on my phone. Well i've just been watching the olympics for the past few days and not really much else. They're actually pretty good this year. I mean its 1am no 2am and im still up watching. Never realized how ridiculous gymnastics is. I've been glued every time its on. probably good nbc got things moved to primetime or who knows how late id be staying up. well ive got about 2 more days till im heading back to macomb. trying to get a few things taken care of like the cd i forgot from topeka. gotta mail that thing back. ugh. plus a few paychecks from the summit league from the spring. Really need that money since books need to be bought soon.

Found out that I can have on site transfer capabilities with my phone. I got a Sprint LG Rumor and I got the Vision Pack $15 and with my Yahoo Mail and file attachments, if I can get a CF card adapter for my 20D to a SD card and use the micro SD adapter for my phone, it takes me about 6 minutes for a 3MB file transfer I can do some basic edits and crops on my PDA and I'm set. Freakin awesome. Only thing is, I'm pretty low on the cash. Well, low as in none so I need to wait till I'm working again at school.