Final Project selects

For staff class this semester, I'm working with a woman who is a doula. A Doula is like your birth coach only way more productive and knows more than your husband who might pass out. DeeDee teaches classes for expecting moms in the traditional sense as well as pre-natal belly dancing for moms who are planning to have a natural child birth.


DeeDee and her daughter Hazel in between dance classes and rehearsal at Moon Belly Dance Studio.

Fun Stuff from the Weekend

Easter Weekend

Isabella Corrado, 3, gets her face painted by Courtney McCoy at the Easter EGGstravaganza at Douglass Park in Columbia on Saturday afternoon, March 22, 2008.

Courtney McCoy volunteered with the City of Columbia to paint faces at the annual Easter Eggstravaganza Saturday afternoon, March 22, 2008.


MU's Shana White, 19, slides into home being called safe at the plate as Oklahoma State's catcher, Samantha Heinlein, 11, looses control of the throw in from the outfield. White's run was the third and final run scored in the game against the Cowgirls, improving the Tiger's record to 30-7 overall, and 2-0 in the Big XII.



MU's Michaele Vock, 5, is tagged out at home by Oklahoma State's Samantha Heinlein, 11, Saturday afternoon, March 22, 2008. Even though Vock was beat at the plate, the Tigers beat the Cowgirls 3-0.


MU senior center fielder, Kurt Calvert, 5, runs down a deep pop fly against Baylor on Saturday afternoon, March 22, 2008. The Tigers beat the Bears 3-0, making them 17-2 overall and 2-0 in the Big XII.


Tiger's pitcher Ian Berger, 41, throws one in to the batter as Baylor's Ben Booker, 21, tries to steal second base, Saturday afternoon, March 22, 2008. Berger, a junior, helped to lead the Tigers to a 3-0 victory over the Bears.

Updates...cause I've been too busy.

So here's some of the stuff that I'm including in portfolios these days. If anyone has any comments...I'm taking all the help I can get! I promise to start updating way more often and be regular about it since there's more time to shoot now that POYi is over.

Missouri Valley College's production of "The Island," 2007.

Lisa Puccio practices her uneven bars routine at the MU gymnastics team practice on Tuesday, February 12, 2008. Puccio is a senior this year only performing on the bars due to a torn ACL last season.

The MU Tiger's return to the floor after a time out in the second half of the Wednesday night game against Nebraska. The Tiger's lost 66-62.



Adam Lefler helps Olive Humphrey learn to skate in circles at the Jefferson City ice skating ring, February 10, 2007.


MU's Nicole Wilson, 25, races after a loose rebound during the second half to beat Ashley Paris, 5, of Oklahoma. The Tigers lost 61-57 Wednesday night, February 6, 2008.

Fellow teammates watch as Greg DeStephen (cq) takes a dive off the 1 meter spring board during a MU diving team practice, Wednesday, February 6, 2008. The team faces Drury University on Friday and is back home against Nebraska on Saturday. Coach Jamie Sweeney (cq) said that, "This is going to be a good weekend for Mizzou diving."


Darah Oxford meditates at the end of her pre-natal belly dancing class that DeeDee Farris-Folkert teaches at the Community Birth Center in Columbia, MO. Classes are held Friday nights at 6:30 p.m. followed by the postpartom class for new moms at 7:30 p.m.

Trent Brett Acton born March 13, 2007, held by his grandfather Kevin two days after he was born.

Final Projects

The Missouri School for the Deaf

My Favorite Multimedia Piece

http://denver.rockymountainnews.com/news/finalSalute/

I like it because it's a very personal story that is broken into several pieces and is interactive. It's very moving and touching. The photos were POYi winners as well. The photographer is from the Rocky Mountain News in Denver.

http://www.roanoke.com/multimedia/crooked/interactive.html

This is a Seth Gitner piece from the Roanoke Times. I love the interactiveness of this piece and his use of flash and integrating so many different elements.

Blending, Balancing and Pop Flash

Here's what I came up with this week. This one is balancing.



Caption:
Sarah Minton, 24, (right) and Jessica Nesselhauf, 25, man the bake station table in Middlebush Hall on MU’s campus. They are part of the Association of MPA Students that is working to raise money for a program called Shop with a Cop. The program is trying to raise about $1,000 so that ten elementary school children from Columbia’s Field Elementary School can go shopping this holiday season for themselves and their families with a local law enforcement officer. The children in most cases will be low income and may have a family member incarcerated. According to Minton and Nesselhauf, the idea is to show the kids that the cops aren’t the bad guys and they still care about their families and the community they live in.

Critique:
For my select I chose one of the balancing photos. I was out wandering and went into Middlebush Hall where I found these two girls sitting at a bake sale table. So I asked if I could take their picture and then found out what they were doing there and that turned out to be really interesting after I was done shooting. When I approached the situation, I just saw interesting light, not interesting content. However, I can get a solid caption out of this and realistically could go find them and make a holiday story out of it. However, technique first. I balanced it with the light from the outside. I did have a big problem with lens flare. I saw it, and I was having trouble avoiding it and moving around it since I don’t have a hood. I shot this at ISO 200, f/10, and 1/160. I didn’t gel my flash, and I used ETTL at full power for some of them and stopped down 1/3 to 2/3’s on others. I think this one was at full power because I was a little further away from the face that needed to be lit.
I really liked the technique but I was really caught up on content. I liked working with the blending and pop flash a lot more. It’s more fun to be creative with things like that than just filling, but I know that the filling and balancing is going to get me further in life and be used more. Some of the soccer and volleyball photos were not done correctly because my flash decided to die on me and I didn’t realize it, so I had to shuffle some batteries to make it happen.


Here's another one that I liked and I'll consider it more of a pop flash or maybe even some panning. I liked it. It's down at the Rec Center where some guys were shooting some basketball before I was going to play volleyball.

Color Correction

For this assignment, we had to use different settings in white balance and with our flashes. This was my first time gelling a flash. We used a green gel to balance with Fluorescent light and an orange gel to balance with tungsten light.

This was my select:


Caption: Vanessa Riperenger, 23, holds her 8 month old son, Trent, on his first Halloween. She balances Trent with her boyfriend, working 2 jobs, and is seen talking with her mom on the phone in this photo before heading out to trick or treat.

Technical Info: Flash on manual with orange gel, full power, bounced off of white cieling with white card pulled on flash. ISO 400, f/11, 1/125

This was a RAW photo from my tungsten take and so when I color corrected, I had to add blue so that the photo didn't look orange. And it turned out really nice. I love shooting in RAW for the color correction part of it, but as far as space saving tools and convenience, I think that I will have to stick with JPEG's. I do like the power it gives you, but, it's a toss up. Very give and take in my mind. I know for me I have a lot of trouble getting photos to people if I'm shooting in RAW because they can't read the files, and then it takes forever on a large shoot to get everything over to JPEGS for people to read. So that's what I have to say about it. I liked looking at the color changes and how things were altered in my take as I went along shooting.