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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 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.
