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The cover of The MC Times
For my internship with The Times Beacon Record I had to photograph a local Memorial Day Parade.
I took several dozen pictures while I was there and the newspaper editor selected three of them to appear on the cover of the next issue of The Times of Middle Country.
The photo caption, crediting the photos to me
As one of the administrator’s on my high school’s Senior Class College Decisions group, I wanted to make a map as people announced their college choices. Although not a member of my school’s yearbook, the editor of the Farewell section asked if they could include the infographic amongst the advertisements and dedications. I modified it slightly so that it would fit within a half page spread.
As an employee in Best Buy’s Digital Imaging section one of the most frequent questions I get asked from customers is “What’s the difference between a 3x and a 4x optical zoom?” or something to that effect. I thought the best way to portray this would be a series of pictures. So one day, on a slow day, I asked my supervisor if I could take a camera and tripod to the back of the parking lot and aim it at the storefront. With his blessing I created a photo display of a series of eight pictures, each numbered with the amount of optical zoom used.
I edited the pictures on Photoshop and we used a television to also set up a slideshow of the pictures. This was one of the better days I had at work, not just because I got to go outside, but because I helped make a lasting impression and improvement on Best Buy’s Digital Imaging section.
In my second semester of Junior year I took a Media Arts class that placed a heavy emphasis on digital photography and Photoshop. In addition to working on various Photoshop projects, each half of the semester we had to turn in a contact sheet of around 65 pictures. We had to choose from these pictures ones that were applicable to certain themes (line, perspective, lighting, etc.). The following are some of the best pictures I took in that class.
One of a series of nine posters I made to promote myself senior class president. Click "View Full Article" to see the whole series.
When I was running for senior class president one of the things I was most excited for was the campaigning. Even if I didn’t win (and I didn’t) I wanted to have one of the more memorable campaigns that Ward Melville HS has seen.
The first portion of my campaign was the posters. I recruited my long-time friend Joseph Morelli, who has a ton of experience with art, to create an original painting for use on the poster. Happily agreeing, Morelli painted an all-blue painting which I took into Photoshop and manipulated the painting into nine different images, each a different color. I added text to each of the posters that explained my platform. I hung up one poster a day for the eight days leading up to election day and on the day of the election I hung up a significantly larger poster that was Grayscale and simply said “Vote Jeff!”
The second part of my campaign was a video that aired as a prelude to my speech in the auditorium. The video’s music was inspired by a trailer for Where the Wild Things Are and I replicated the edit of the Arcade Fire song. The text animation at the end of the video was made by Jordan Michnoff.
Was the campaign successful? Although I didn’t win, it was a ton of fun and people appreciated it…and, looking back, that’s what really mattered. Besides, I was later was elected the Vice President of the Student Government.
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