Dylan Barns, Stephen Sturges, and Chase Lamphier

Last Friday (Jan. 22), was the latest school dance. Once again, our class was able to take photos of students as a fundraiser. As this was not Homecoming or Senior Ball; but the white-out dance, there really wasn’t a demand for photos. Our last strobe-light dance only sold $5 worth of photos for the hours we were there… so we created a new marketing strategy… $1/person/photo. This would essentially make it completely affordable for anyone who wanted a photo. As a result, we made around 6x more money this time.

Furthermore, to save costs, we decided that an electronic delivery method would be ideal. We have received complaints in the past that the only reason people got their photo taken was to post it to their Facebook or Myspace page… but weren’t able to do that with a physical photo given to them. So I created an online event gallery system (which will be released later in Open Source for anyone who needs something similar) which would host the photos for the people to go download them after the dance.

Login screen for my gallery site

Edited

This is a senior portrait shot by the Twitchell during a class demonstration. I was given the photos to edit.

This is just a basic RAW edit. Followed by some unsharp mask and tonal adjustments.

As you can see from this before image, mild color adjustments were done.

The photo was taken in the school’s photo studio with a Canon Rebel XTI that supposedly belonged to me… but it didn’t.