ALPHAS STEP......

This weekend I was a judge in a pageant and one of the entertainment segments was a fraternity stepping. It really intrigued me and so I believe I have a photo story. My photo story is to follow the historically black fraternity of Alpha Phi Alpha. They are the first fraternity to be established and have many famous and influential people who have come from it including Civil Rights Activist Martin Luther King. I will follow the fraternity in Arkansas universities such as SAU, Henderson State University, UAMS, and any others I run into. I will detail the life of Alphas as they step, strut, party, education, and community service. I want to capture the story because it's such an exclusive society that many people never get to have access to.  I have connections so hopefully this will work out. Shane, I was wondering if I can use some of my photos from our first assignment, to incorporate in my story? 

Faith Green

THE CLASS

I really enjoyed today the class...it was very relaxed and I actually understood what he was talking about.......(sometimes things go over my head, but I'm trying really hard to be better.) I'm very interested in the sports field and I loved how Greg told stories of being out in the field. I wanted to ask if I can interview him for my Research in Mass Communications class. I think it's very inspiring and I REALLY LOVED THE CLASS TODAY!!! It's wonderful he has been on the sidelines of the New Orleans Saints game.......REGGIE BUSH......Wow that' my dream to interview him!!!!!! Class was very fun and inspiring I JUST WANT TO THANK HIM VERY MUCH!!!!!

Faith Green

Greg Pearson

OK lets hear your comments on what you heard in class today. Any questions? Comments?

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Old Time Band Player

I decided on choosing a member of the Texarkana Second Time Around Band to do my photo story on. His name is Mr. Stone and he lives next door to my grandparents house. He is around my grandfather's age and had been playing the trombone for years. I think this would be a great photo story because I used to play band myself, and the fact that it is interesting that people still play band instraments no matter what their age.

SPRING BREAK!!!!

First off, let me say that the participation in the blog has been stellar. I am very impressed at the critiques that you have given each other. This is one of the best ways that we can learn as photographers.

Second, I wanted to add that I am really impressed with the work here this week. You can already see that Greg Pearson has visited the site, and I couldn't be happier that this is the work he has seen.

Third, remember that your photo story subjects are due to me on Wednesday the 26th of March. This also the day that Greg Pearson will be lecturing in class and it will be mandatory attendance that day.

Camera Manual Missing!

Hey guys,

I have a camera, and at one point it did have an instruction manual. Has anyone seen or have it?

Thanks
CL

My photograhper that I used was Lauren Greenfield. When Shane showed us a series of her photographs I automatically thought of a way that I could use a spin off of her. I posed 4 of these pictures, however the very last one just happened, and I was able to catch that moment. I was taking a spin off of her small (anorexic) series of photos. I was trying to go in the direction of the "different styles of women". I wanted it to seem like the women during the day with the dressy jacket for the business woman during the day, and then the cocktail dress at night for night life. I don't know if I got it right this week. But I tried posing pictures, and it was harder than I thought it would be.

Mistake by Lindsey

Sorry when posting I accidentally posted the same pic twice, in one it's rotated and the other it's not. So Sorry, I'll try and do better next time, this blog is something to get use to.

Cristy's Sergio Larrain

This photo captures leading lines with the grass line and street, which Larrain uses.

Capturing reflections opens up the photo, and the leading line of the street draws the viewer.

Reflection of the football

Hi guys, I decided to imitate the magnum photographer, Sergio Larrain. I was interested in his style, especially his use of reflections in photos. His use of reflections adds depth and creates more layers in the pictures, which seems to draw in the viewer. Though he used mirrors to capture reflections, and I used water (though not as well), I still feel it captures his clean lines and multi-layered style. He also had a street shots with a shoe, which is why I choose to shoot on the red brick road with a random heel.

Lindsey Frankovich - Assignment #5 Imitation of Larry Towell

For this week's assignment I chose to imitate Magnum photographer Larry Towell. I love the way his photographs show the relationship between man, nature and animal. I like the lighting and framing in his work and the angles he shoots from. When looking at his work, the photographs bring a sense of calm and gentleness, showing how mother nature and man-kind go hand-n-hand. I shot this assignment last Friday morning during the freak, but fast snow storm. I think my photos show the same gentle spirit and the emotions between man, animal and nature. Hope you guys enjoy...

My Pictures are finally on here! I tried to model my photos after Jari Hakala. You can find this site at: JariHakala.com. Jari's photos are mostly nature shots(lots of trees and plants). I went out to Wright Patman Lake to get my photos. I just drove around looking for things that were similar. Hope you like them!

This blog is giving me lots of trouble, I've tried posting it 5 times already, I gave an explanation for each photo,but frankly I don't know if it will go through!!

Faith

Faith Green-Jim Goldberg

I imitated art from Jim Goldberg's worth. He seemed to be very modern and his pictures seemed to be portraits mostly. Goldberg seems to capture moments in soft and harsh lights. I tried mixing harsh and soft lights together. I saw a black and white picture of this woman sitting on a bed and I was really intrigued so I tried to capture the moment. I also liked the portrait of Condoleeza Rice with half her face in the light and half in the dark. This is my best imitation I could possibly do.

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Assignment #5 Emulation of Tom Ulrich

Tom Ulrich has been involved in photography for 35 years, and has had his photos in National Wildlife, National Geographic and many other popular wildlife and outdoor magazines. Tom enjoys shooting birds the most. Its not so much the amount of color he uses, although he uses a lot, its the contrast of color. Although the photos on his website are not some of his best, the ones he used in his presentation that I saw were amazing. It astounds me the amount of time he will spend on a subject, up to 11 hours straight. I did not try to emulate the 11 hours I tried to emulate the color contrast and I thought the snow would give me a perfect opportunity. I did sit in the snow for an hour trying to be as still as possible to capture a male Cardinal in a white snow background. I did capture that shoot as well as a few other cool ones, although I did not think they were as good. Check out Tom's website www.tomulrichphotos.com

Harry Gruyaert

This one with the man and the card deals with a revolt of going into the service and thought that may stand for something that happened imfortant in the 60's and 70's

I decided to also do Harry Gruyaert because he seemed to take picures of photos of things that he saw on television. But he got the aspect where there was a blend of colors. It made each one of his photos unique in an artistic way The photos I took were from old movies called The Boy in the Plastic Bubble and Katheren.....These were from back in the year so they kind of gave me the old feel to it. Which caught my interest was the uniqe pattern given from the screen.

Jeremy Helton Photos 2

Here are the photos imitating Stuart Franklin

Jeremy's Photo imitation of Stuart Franklin

ok it didnt send the photos like I wanted it to

Jeremy Helton Photos

I chose to imitate photos that were taken by Stuart Franklin. I like the way that he shows the beauty of trees both far away and close up. He also like to take different types of photos during different seasons. ( like fall/winter) on some and during the Spring or Summer where the trees are still green and growing tall. He seemed to see the beauty of the artistic way the trees develope unique patterns and shapes that got my attention. I took my photos Sunday afternoon at Spring Lake Park using the normal sun light that was given at that time. The trees that I took pictures of are not as close as in his photos. But they do have their own unique artisitc style that I see simular to his.

Hiliary- Ferinando Scianna

I chose Ferdinando Scianna to imitate. I really like his work with shadows and objects. There was one picture with a donkey and the light was coming through a tree. I tried to work with that. I also liked the picture of the bridge and tried to imitate that as well. I worked with ‘earthly elements’ such as sunlight, fog, trees, and water, but I also tried to blend that with manmade elements such as streets and bridges.

Taquilla's photos

I modeled my photos after Jari Hakala. I found the site at JariHakalaphotography.com. Jari's pictures are mostly outdoor photos.( Lots of trees & flowers.) I went out to Wright Patman Lake and drove around to different locations looking for things that were similiar. I think I did okay!

Lauren Greenfield photography

I really enjoyed Lauren Greenfield's work. I was very intrigued by her pictures that detail the sexualization of young girls and young women. I work at a pregnancy center and we see so many young girls who are oversexualized. My heart was touched by the many pictures. I decided to do an opposite approach. I wanted to focus on African American girls because Lauren seems to focus on Caucasian girls. I went to a local youth center and took pictures of the local youth girls. I wanted to show how women are trying to teach young girls about chastity and innocence. Lauren Greenfield usually uses harsh light, so the center was dim and I decided to take most of the pictures under fluorescent light.

The first picture is of 2 girls learning a praise dance by their teacher.

The second picture is of a girl who is on the drumline at the local youth center, she was the only girl on the drumline.

The third picture is of the drum major on the drumline she is yelling out a call for the drumline to halt the line.

The last picture is of one of the mentors at the youth center who works with the young girls. Lauren Greenfield's photography consists of portraits as well. This is a portrait of her in a shirt that says "I'm worth the wait!" Most young women and young girls usually have sexually suggestive shirts, so this is out of the ordinary!!!

Faith

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