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.

The past week, Stephen and I continued to work on the Promotional Bulletin Board for the Lewiston, Idaho SkillsUSA competitions.

Recent changes/additions include finalizing the backdrop, working on the foreground, and getting ready to print. We are also starting to think about the speech and q/a.

Once we’re done, I will post the final copy, and possibly all of the steps involved.

–Scott

This past week, Stephen and I have been working on our Promotional Bulletin board design. Currently, we have created a background design as well as the textual designs. We have also brainstormed foreground ideas, and have set in at designing this in illustrator.
We hope to be done with the design phase by Friday, print Monday, as well as work on and practice our speech.
–Scott

While at a SkillsUSA conference in Kansas City, MO, there was a nice big t-storm one night, so Mike and I skipped out on some studying and went to take some photos. Here are some edited ones from the shoot.

Gear:

• Canon 40D
• Canon 50mm, f/1.8

Details:

• Aperture: f/1.8
• Shutter: 1/80^th, 1/25^th, 1/30^th, 1/100^th

Drury Inn & Suites in Kansas City, MO