This is from the record store "Wuxtry" in downtown Athens. The store was completely cluttered and stuffed from one end to the other with records, dvds, cds, cassettes, and plenty of other things. While I was there, I bought my brother a Hall & Oates vinyl that he really wanted. This is a picture of Alli looking through the budget CDs.

(almost bought "Best of Backstreet Boys")

These three images are of Olivia eating a dark chocolate Hershey's. I couldn't pick the best one. (She hates me for posting these...) I have been feeling sick lately due to the overload of sugar... I have absolutely no will power and I almost fell over last night when I walked into the Drewry Room and saw 3 tables completely covered with candy. YUM!

DOWN TOWN ATHENS!!!!!!

DOWN TOWN ATHENS IS SWO COOL IT WAS MY 1ST TIME TOO!!

I ATE GREAT FOOD TOO! 

I got down on the ground to get a few shots of people's feet and this was the only one I really liked. It's really cool how I captured the motion of her foot while she is walking away and how the bowling ball's red color makes it pop out in the background even though its out of focus. Basically, it just captures the action of the moment all in one shot.

REDEMPTION!

So monday night we had to take self portraits. Not so successful. I was blurry and my background was distracting. So last night I made another attempt and things turned out mighty fine. I love my new picture. I decided that I just wanted to have fun, and it gave me a really cool picture.

Tues. night (UGA TOUR)

The UGA tour was really long so I started taking pictures of how people were acting on the bus!!
The campus tour was really nice! i go to see the whole college!

Climbing tree edited

This picture of Kim i edited it by cropping it and then adding yellow streaks to bring out the color and making it stand out more below her feet and on her left side. Check it out!

we were working in photoshop today and i really like the color of the ball so i wanted it to stand out

Bowling

One of our assignments for the first night was to photograph everyone bowling. While I was waiting for a teammate to bowl, I sat down and took various pictures of the bowling balls. 

The guy was resting on the field, and it was a really good shot so I just snapped away. It was a perfect setting and I think a good angle. It looks a little weird how his left leg is cut off.

Climbing Tree

This picture was of kim being a monkey and climbing a tree. I took a picture because it looked funny and it had good lighting.

Don't Shoot!

SELF PORTRAIT


This morning, my roommate and I visited Jittery Joe's. While she waited in line for her iced latte, I rounded the corner and wandered into the bathroom, where I snapped this self-portrait. The bathroom stalls are a lovely red mimicking a marble pattern, making for a great background. Knowing that the edges were slightly blurry, I used two filters to make this more artistic-looking. I choose diffuse glow and Gaussian blur to create a painting effect.


DOUBLE TAKE

I sat on the ground with my roommate, waiting for the buses to come and take us to the bowling alley. As I scanned the room and snapped candids, so did she... and I realized she was focusing on me, so we did a "double take" and got shots of each other behind our cameras.

Our next assignment was to take a self-portrait and a portrait of someone else. While I didn't really get a chance to take a portrait of someone else, I managed to take a self portrait (using my handy dandy remote!) and capture a cool candid of Olivia at the bowling alley. You can see her magnificent technique.....

I did this second picture for our self-portraits. I figured since I am currently attending this camp, including something that was associated with it (name tag, dorm bed, key) in the picture would be interesting. This photo is from a series of about 10 or so frames that I took VERY quickly before the sun went down.

i liked how i captured her in action in this picture.

Dressing Spare.

Just a simple shot taken at a bowling alley, not much inspiration besides the pure satisfaction of seeing a dozen pins crash before your eyes.

Leopard Pink.

My aim for this photo was aimed towards more of a fashion type of edge. It just sort of happened rather than me trying to stage the shot.

Photo of: Jasmine Fillmore, 17

yellow burst of sun

When we roamed around the journalism communication building I saw these flowers and wanted to capture the sun going through the flower.
I tried to get the picture from a different angle than normal (from on top).

Chicks leaving the nest

So this was the first day of the Georgia Journalism Academy 2009 & the photojournalism students had a lot of ground to cover quickly. After getting acquainted with their cameras, the students went out to shoot portraits of their classmates, and then shoot whatever else caught their interest while they had time.

I call this first one (above, right) "Taking a picture of taking a picture of..." (Juliet in the foreground, with Dylan and Loren's head in the background).

Other students branched out & went a little further away from Grady to shoot their portraits. You can see all the results from this morning's shoot here...

In this second photo, Micah and Taylor working on their portraits in front of Park Hall. 

Outdoor Adventures

BUSY BEE


With my fellow camera-laden classmates, I traipsed around a grassy area outside of Grady. My partner, Juliet, and I searched for several locations for portraits and finally trekked up the speckled sidewalk, then waved at the "hi" sticker posted on a pole at the crosswalk, and stopped to take pictures of some flowers just around the corner. I zoomed in on several of these lavender blossoms, then heard a friendly bee buzzing in my ear. I turned slowly and saw him crawling and circling the flower, hungry for lunch just like me. I spent several minutes chasing him round and round until I finally caught this picture! =]


GARDEN SAFARI

Juliet and I explored around the trees, stood by and climbed walls, then stopped to smell the roses, so to speak. I asked her to climb into the flower bed and crouch down on her knees, and the day lilies rose above her head. Her camera was already around her neck, and she just happened to be pointing it my way. The sun cast a soft light on her face and a glow around her shoulders and the tops of the flowers. The yellow flowers, green grass, and her bright blue shirt made for a fantastic summer color combination!

Flower Power

Today in photojournalism class we received an assignment to take pictures of and with our designated partners. We took a couple of photos of each other and then headed our separate ways. I ended up walking past some beautiful flowers and had to take some pictures. I ended up with  this one and I am totally satisfied. Although my partner had a lovely picture, the world just needed to see this photo. 

I wasn't sure what i was going for with the picture but i wanted the color of the flower to be captured. I also wanted a different angle.

Lauren Corcino 6/8/09

The reason that I took this photo was because she was trying to get one of me and I wanted to get her first.

This was one of the first pictures I took at the journalism academy today. I was trying to get the bee in focus at the center, with the flowers out of focus. But as you can see, the bee is barely visible and the focus in the picture is a little off. I didn't want to get to close for fear of being stung so I kind of just hung back a few feet. I think it could have been a little more magnified, but I like the subjects.

Portrait of Dylan Reeves 6/8/09

This photo was taken during our first photojournalism photo shoot.  When taking this picture, I was fooling around with the focus lens and the lighting and managed to capture a close-up of Dylan smiling. 

1st day Photo of the week!!

1st picture I took!! I call it....
ITEXT!!
Blake Thomas,17

I took this picture because, she was texting when we were taking pics.
And the picture really brings out the brown shirt!

Taylor Carpenter.

I'm not sure of what I was going for exactly, I tried to make the shot as interesting as possible. I love the offset juxtaposition of the photograph. The angles that she created made it very easy to shoot. I think that my "model" was very good at posing without intentionally posing for the picture.

First Day of Photojournalism Class

For our first assignment in photojournalism class, we had to take portraits. Olivia was my partner so I tried to find a pleasing background somewhere within several yards of the Journalism building. I pointed to a disgusting, moss-covered wall for her to stand in front of and she gave me a confused look. I don't exactly know what I saw in it but the textures really appealed to me. I was very pleased with the final shot though!

Monday night in Uga!!!

The night time is the best part of the day lol!

I have a picture of some up coming college freshmen football players(they are really nice and cute).
And we had a lot of fun bowling!!
GO JOURNALISM ROCKSTARS!!!!

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Welcome Photojournalism Rock Stars!