Mentor Meeting 3/22/11

    So I had a mentor meeting with Mrs G. on Monday and it went very well. We talked a lot about how I am doing well with my project but I am not pushing myself out of my comfort zone. So my mission for this week is to push myself outside of my comfort zone
      She suggested that I do an enrichment program at one of the elementary schools. For those of you who don't know, enrichment is a bunch of programs that are open to elementary kids. People from around the community come for an hour after school to teach classes on a variety of topics. Unfortunately elementary school ends at 2:00 and enrichment starts at 2:05 and goes until 3:05 this is smack dab in the middle of my 7th and 8th period classes and I can't miss those. I am going to think about solutions to this problem because leading an enrichment class for an hour once a week for 8 weeks would definitely put me outside of my comfort zone.
      Another suggestion was going to local coffee shops and asking if I could display some of my work for a while. I mentioned the fact that I was thinking of holding a photo show at my house and Mrs G. was a little hesitant because she really wants me to get out of my comfort zone and therefore my house with people I know might be too comfortable. I totally understand this and I think thats why I was leaning towards holding the show at my house because it would be more comfortable for me.
   Mrs G. also suggested that I interview a local photographer. I talked to Judy but I know her rather well and I am comfortable with her so talking to Judy wouldn't be getting out of my comfort zone. One of the photos I used in one of my earlier was taken by Jenna at Jenna Leigh Teti Photography. Jenna said that I could email her with any questions or to just talk about photography in general. I think that I will take advantage of her offer and see how she got into photography. I am also planning on contacting a friend's mom, who is an equine vet at cornell, and seeing if I could get in to take pictures of a workout on the treadmill or something like that.
    I also need to talk to Judy soon to see if she would be willing to let me print my photos at school using school paper. I would pay for the paper and ink I used. If I can't print at school then I will have to find another place to print.
     I think thats all for now. I will be posting pictures of my long exposure experiment and some nice Wednesday night polo pictures at a later date.

Progress and Planning

     Hello out there. Sorry I haven't updated in a while. So my progress for this week has been pretty good I think. I finally got my collage planned and sketched out so that is one thing off my list. So yesterday I went down to sunset park to take pictures of the sunset. It was an ok day to shoot, there were a lot of clouds on the horizon so I couldn't get the actual sunset which was disappointing. Later I went outside and took some pictures of the moon, which was supposedly at its largest in a very long time. I did long exposure pictures. Long exposure pictures is when you keep the shutter open for a much longer amount of time than is normal ie. 30 seconds. When this is done in a low light setting it creates the illusion that the picture was taken during the day. To do this you need a tripod however because any movement will be reflected in the photo. I was hoping to wake up early and go back to sunset park to take long exposures of the moon setting because you can really tell that the moon is huge when it is close to the horizon. Unfortunately I didn't wake up so I wasn't able to get pictures; however I am planning on taking more tonight and I might plan to get up early and take pictures tomorrow before class. I am pretty happy with the photos I did get. This long exposure mini-project has made me want to take more and get better at it. I will be continuing to do this throughout the rest of the year. I am also thinking of playing around with super imposing a horse picture on to a picture of the moon. We did an assignment similar to this in Photo last year and I really liked it. I think I will try it again.