Printed Photo

My design final today consisted of turning in a bunch of work and printing this photo out. Its my first professionally printed out work which will hang above my bed in my new place. Yay!

The photo was taken in Mali on my Sony Cybershot DSC-H10. I almost threw it out but then thought it looked really cool focused on the window of the bus instead of the sunset outside. It took three proof prints in CMYK mode on my professors professional printer before we gave up and printed in RGB. I don't understand how to make all that work yet. The print is drying in his office right now but when I get it and get it framed it's 17"x22". Quite large!

:)

If I think about it tonight I'll link to the large photo.

May Day

Its late at night and I am wide awake. Which is handy because I have much to update.

It's finals week and I have finished my first short film. Entitled "Somogow" which means "family" in Bambara. The assignment was easy - learn Final Cut Pro and create a five minute film. We had to write a script, create a story board, and think about our lighting ahead of time. Being forced to create something, I didn't really know what I wanted to do for a long time. I learned Final Cut a week ago and only had about two hours of footage to work with when all the shooting was finished. A lot of scenes had to be cut because I couldn't wrangle people to shoot for me. All my friends are conservatory students and take about 8,000 classes each. I've been getting very good feedback for the most part. I'm already sick of watching it but this is the final product:

"Somogow"


This past weekend was Apple Blossom in Winchester. Here are some pictures from working with the film crew.

Poor Elephants, they still look happy even though they have to walk around on the road.


Proud lady and her pooch


Clowning around! Check out that dog!


Lonely princess


Buy some stuff?


"Working"


There you go. Apple Blabble. I, of course, did not get to party too much because I had to work and was usually exhausted afterward. Being tired and trying to party results in:



I'm so glad my friends were able to catch that elusive photo for me.



I've been playing a lot of guitar late at night the past few days. Mostly because of Priscilla Ahn:



Her voice is absolutely enchanting. I wish I could do so many things at once. Guitar? Okay. Sing? Well, I'll give it a shot. Play harmonica and use a pedal too? Oh geez. No. She is my inspiration this week to finish finals so I can move into my new house and play guitar all summer.

Photography Contest

The following photos were entered in the Microsoft ProPhoto Contest to show off my work and try to win $20,000. I figured it couldnt hurt to enter since I already had some beautiful photos from my trip to Mali. The categories were: landscapes, people & portraits, and sports & photojournalism. Since I don't particularly care about sports and didn't have any truly outstanding landscapes, I submitted the maximum three photos all in one category - people.








Contest ends April 30, 2009.