SkillsUSA 2010: Lewiston

Friday, our school traveled to Lewiston to compete in the regional SkillsUSA competitions. I have been working on the promotional bulletin board project (and I will post my total work on it after state, I don’t want to show everything I did, as it isn’t finished), and I presented my board (what it is so far) to the judge panel. Unfortunately, I suckz0rz3d @t the sp33ch, so I either got 4th or 5th.

Anyway, for the photography competition, we were ordered to go take pictures for an hour, shooting for a portrait and a photo that depicts the outdoors. After shooting, we had to edit them, and make a color photo, a b&w photo, and an outdoors photo (any saturation).

After the competition, at the awards ceremony, I received 2nd place (1st place was awarded to Alyssa Schmidt). The prize was a 2gb PNY usb flash drive… super legit.

Abbey Road

For the first picture, the outdoors one, I really wasn’t intending to shoot it Beatle-esque, but after I edit the image together, someone (the Orofino High School Photo teacher, I believe) stated that it looked just like the Beatles’ Abbey Road CD, and that I was obviously a Beatles fan. However, I do not believe that I have ever listened to a whole Beatles song (I probably have without realizing it). Anyway, I think the image is just slightly buenísimo.

Photo B&W

I wanted to create a different photo than what I have done in the past, so I found these sweet steps outside the student union at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, and I took this sweet pic of Erin.

I originally tried using this for my color photo but then I decided that it was better desaturated.

Espresso drip

I wanted to use this image, greatly, but it really didn’t seem to fit any of the categories, so I didn’t use it, instead I used the shot of Blaine.

There was another image I wanted to use, but I realized after I came in, that it was blurry. So sadly, I was unable to use it.

Anyway, below you will see the contact sheet.