CSI: Twin Falls - The College
During the awards ceremony at SkillsUSA State, one person from the Twin Falls satellite campus of the College of Southern Idaho won first place. Do you know what it said on the slideshow in huge letters?
None other than CSI: Twin Falls. Although we knew that they obviously didn’t mean this, it still was funny to see.
Attn Twitchell: This is not a project, please do not grade me for this, thank you.
Last month, my mom traveled down to Scottsdale, AZ to get radiation therapy. During Spring Break, I traveled down to visit and got many great photos while I was there. I haven’t gotten around to posting them until now as I had my SkillsUSA post and my Focus208 posts that had to be turned in first. Anyway, here are the photos.
Focus208 Slideshow
Focus208 – Coeur d’Alene from Scott Sturges on Vimeo.
In an ongoing attempt to photograph the state of Idaho, otherwise known as Focus208, I have taken some photos around downtown Coeur d’Alene, Id.
I chose to photograph the two blocks between Sherman and Front Avenue, and 4th and 6th street. I wanted to show some of the “urban-decay” (as in the alley ways and rundown walls) as well as the new urbanization (such as the new towers) of downtown.
The photos were processed from Camera RAW in Photoshop CS4, where light adjustments were made, and sharpening was applied. Unfortunately, I over-sharpened some of my images, but for the most part they all look pretty decent. They were then processed through my fancy Focus208 Photoshop action, which essentially resizes them, adds a border, adds my name, and saves it as a jpg.
After editing the photos, I made them into a slideshow (above) and added the music, Analog Plan by Thomas Schneider, found on Freeplaymusic.com. The slideshow was compiled in Picasa 3 for Mac from Google in 720p resolution (because 1080p takes too long to upload). I actually liked using the program a lot despite it being slightly glitchy software.
This project took me an insane amount of time for some reason, it seemed that I was overthinking some of the process, as it took me several days to edit the photos. Just prepping the video and making this post took over 4 hours.
There was some inspiration from Digital Photography School, Urban Landscape Photography Tips.
Below are the contact sheets of the photos taken on the assignment.
Lastly, there was an extremely blurry shot of Josh Stevens that I took while shooting this project that Twitchell (linked due to request) liked, so I’ll post it for your viewing…
Last week, my photography class traveled to Boise to compete in a photography competition through SkillsUSA Idaho in Boise, Idaho. Our class competed in two different competitions, Photography, and Promotional Bulletin Board. Later, I’ll post the whole bulletin board project as I am finally done with it and I presented it successfully (1st place FTW).
Anyway, for the photography competition, we were bussed to Columbia High School in Nampa, Idaho to begin the competition. After we picked up some more students, we all went to Downtown Nampa for the shooting portion. We were assigned to shoot the Urban Decay of Nampa.
Below are the shots I chose and edited for the competition.
I ended up using the alley way shot a book cover project for the book Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Unfortunately, I do not have the originals for all of them, just the ones I edited, because the judges kind of stole our cards. So below I posted a contact sheet with the originals. Finally, the inspiration of this post was completely the judge, as he set the requirement for it to be urban decay, so I can’t really post an inspiration link this week.
– Scott
As we approach Spring Break, and SkillsUSA for Idaho State, I have been working on my speech for the Promotional Bulletin Board, redoing a few minor things on my board, choosing 11×14′s for the photo competition, and creating my portfolio.
I also have been working on a few projects that I will hopefully get posted during Spring Break, or soon afterward.
