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Associated Collegiate Press’s 26th Annual National College Summer Jounalism Workshops

Friday, July 24th, 2009

Sat­ur­day:

2:20: I just got done shoot­ing a video. Will try to get that bad boy up on YouTube soon. My part­ner was Jackie Cain of the Echo at St. Michael’s Col­lege in Ver­mont.

Ear­lier I had Burger King: dou­ble cheese­burger and a straw­berry shake. De­li­cious as al­ways. Nice walk down Wash­ing­ton Avenue.

10:20: Af­ter a de­li­cious pizza and wings din­ner last night, An­drea, Ben and I all headed out sep­a­rate ways and I am now back at the U of M.

Sit­ting in with Ron John­son again. This time: 10 de­sign tips.

Fri­day

3:45:

Back with Ron John­son of In­di­ana Uni­ver­sity. This time the work­shop is on Fun­da­men­tal News De­sign. Same room (Mur­phy 228) as with Joel Eisfelder.

Hope­fully I’ll learn some good stuff to ap­ply to City Col­lege News.

Ron Johnson on Fundamentals of News Design

Ron John­son on Fun­da­men­tals of News Design

1:20:

Af­ter a de­li­cious lunch at Dairy Queen, I am now sit­ting in on the “Na­tional Ad­ver­tis­ing & Your News­pa­per” work­shop with Joel Eis­felder of Cam­pus Me­dia Group.

Joel Eisfelder of Campus Media Group

Joel Eis­felder of Cam­pus Me­dia Group

10:50:

I’m cur­rently at the “In­De­sign Tips to Im­prove Ty­pog­ra­phy” ses­sion. Speaker is Ron John­son of In­di­ana Uni­ver­sity.

Very in­ter­est­ing so far. Learn­ing a lot and re­in­forc­ing what I al­ready know, or thought I did.Ron Johnson Speaking

10:20:

David Brauer is speak­ing right now. Very in­ter­est­ing so far.

David Brauer of MinnPost.

David Brauer of MinnPost.

9:45:

I got here not that long ago and have reg­is­tered. The Keynote speaker starts in 15 min­utes. The speaker is MinnPost’s David Brauer. Will keep you read­ers up­dated as times goes by. Hope­fully I’ll be learn­ing about quite a few things here: Ad­ver­tis­ing, Layout/Graphic De­sign and some “cut­ting edge” audio/video techniques.

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MCTC T Building

Wednesday, July 22nd, 2009

I took these pho­tos yes­ter­day for my in­tro pho­tog­ra­phy class at MCTC.

Artist State­ment:
In our busy lives, we can’t al­ways stop to take a look around and see the pho­tos in every­day life. Here I tried to cap­ture in­ter­est­ing an­gles here at MCTC’s Tech­ni­cal Building.

Im­ages:

I wanted this image to be a combination of line and space. I was fortunate to have both the lines of the ceiling and the ones of the pillars. I also think space is created nicely through the receding forms of the pillars. Tech Specs: Canon 30D & Canon 28-105mm f/3.5 – 4.5; ISO 100; 0.4 seconds @ f/16; f = 30mm.

I wanted this im­age to be a com­bi­na­tion of line and space. I was for­tu­nate to have both the lines of the ceil­ing and the ones of the pil­lars. I also think space is cre­ated nicely through the re­ced­ing forms of the pil­lars. Tech Specs: Canon 30D & Canon 28-105mm f/3.5 – 4.5; ISO 100; 0.4 sec­onds @ f/16; f = 30mm.

As with the last image, I wanted to combine line and space, but also to show the outside. I was lucking enough to capture a bit of the outdoors as the windows were tinted enough to bring down the exposure and bring in detail of the windows. Tech Specs: Canon 30D & Canon 28-105mm f/3.5 – 4.5; ISO 100; 0.4 seconds @ f/16; f = 28mm.

As with the last im­age, I wanted to com­bine line and space, but also to show the out­side. I was luck­ing enough to cap­ture a bit of the out­doors as the win­dows were tinted enough to bring down the ex­po­sure and bring in de­tail of the win­dows. Tech Specs: Canon 30D & Canon 28-105mm f/3.5 – 4.5; ISO 100; 0.4 sec­onds @ f/16; f = 28mm.

Instead of focusing on line and space, I wanted to shoot with just line. Here I pointed the camera straight up to get both the “I-beams” and the skylights. Tech Specs: Canon 30D & Canon 28-105mm f/3.5 – 4.5; ISO 100; 0.4 seconds @ f/16; f = 28mm.

In­stead of fo­cus­ing on line and space, I wanted to shoot with just line. Here I pointed the cam­era straight up to get both the “I-beams” and the sky­lights. Tech Specs: Canon 30D & Canon 28-105mm f/3.5 – 4.5; ISO 100; 0.4 sec­onds @ f/16; f = 28mm.

I wanted to capture the I-beams again, but from a different angle, so I backed up as far as possible and got them from the side. Tech Specs: Canon 30D & Canon 28-105mm f/3.5 – 4.5; ISO 100; 0.8 seconds @ f/16; f = 28mm.

I wanted to cap­ture the I-beams again, but from a dif­fer­ent an­gle, so I backed up as far as pos­si­ble and got them from the side. Tech Specs: Canon 30D & Canon 28-105mm f/3.5 – 4.5; ISO 100; 0.8 sec­onds @ f/16; f = 28mm.

One of the exits out of the T Building. Like the others, I chose not to include people in this picture. Tech Specs: Canon 30D & Canon 28-105mm f/3.5 – 4.5; ISO 100; 1 second @ f/16; f = 28mm.

One of the ex­its out of the T Build­ing. Like the oth­ers, I chose not to in­clude peo­ple in this pic­ture. Tech Specs: Canon 30D & Canon 28-105mm f/3.5 – 4.5; ISO 100; 1 sec­ond @ f/16; f = 28mm.

Here I threw all the rules all of the rules out the window and just shot this as abstract art. (It was pointed out to me in class that I still kept the rule of thirds, but whatever.) Tech Specs: Canon 30D & Canon 28-105mm f/3.5 – 4.5; ISO 100; 1/16 seconds @ f/16; f = 40mm.

Here I threw all the rules all of the rules out the win­dow and just shot this as ab­stract art. (It was pointed out to me in class that I still kept the rule of thirds, but what­ever.) Tech Specs: Canon 30D & Canon 28-105mm f/3.5 – 4.5; ISO 100; 1/16 sec­onds @ f/16; f = 40mm.

MCTC is full of nice-looking signs, here is one of them. Tech Specs: Canon 30D & Sigma 70-200 f/2.8; ISO 100; 0.6 seconds @ f/8.0; f = 135mm.

MCTC is full of nice-looking signs, here is one of them. Tech Specs: Canon 30D & Sigma 70–200 f/2.8; ISO 100; 0.6 sec­onds @ f/8.0; f = 135mm.

Another of MCTC’s signs. Tech Specs: Canon 30D & Sigma 70-200 f/2.8; ISO 100; 1/13 seconds @ f/8.0; f = 200mm.

An­other of MCTC’s signs. Tech Specs: Canon 30D & Sigma 70–200 f/2.8; ISO 100; 1/13 sec­onds @ f/8.0; f = 200mm.

I noticed this rocking chair while shooting the rest of the T building. It was just sitting there, a bit alone. Tech Specs: Canon 30D & Sigma 70-200 f/2.8; ISO 100; 1/13 seconds @ f/4.0; f = 110mm.

I no­ticed this rock­ing chair while shoot­ing the rest of the T build­ing. It was just sit­ting there, a bit alone. Tech Specs: Canon 30D & Sigma 70–200 f/2.8; ISO 100; 1/13 sec­onds @ f/4.0; f = 110mm.

But wait, there’s more, here’s an HDR:

Tech Specs: Canon 30D & Canon 28-105mm f/3.5 – 4.5; ISO 100; 1/6, 0.6 and 0.8 seconds @ f/16; f = 28mm.

Tech Specs: Canon 30D & Canon 28-105mm f/3.5 – 4.5; ISO 100; 1/6, 0.6 and 0.8 sec­onds @ f/16; f = 28mm.

I was brack­et­ing for a good ex­po­sure be­tween the win­dows and the light of the in­doors when I re­al­ized that this would be an ideal can­di­date for an HDR image.

While not much is gained through the HDR, enough of the out­side is ex­posed prop­erly for this to work.

Thanks for look­ing and as al­ways, comments/questions/concerns/critiques welcome.

- Caleb

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Minneapolis Farmers Market

Friday, July 17th, 2009

My next shoot was at the Min­neapo­lis Farm­ers Mar­ket in Min­neapo­lis, Minn. on July 12, 2009.

All pho­tos taken with a com­bi­na­tion of the following:

Canon 30D
Canon 28-105mm  f/3.5-f/4.5
Sigma 70-200mm f/2.8
Canon 580EX II

Thanks,

- Caleb

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Minneapolis airport dog park

Thursday, July 16th, 2009

Hey guys,

My next up­date is a shoot I did at the Min­neapo­lis Saint Paul In­ter­na­tional Air­port dog park in south Min­neapo­lis, Minn. on July 11, 2009.

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Thanks for looking,

- Caleb

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Featured Photo: July 8, 2009

Wednesday, July 8th, 2009

My fea­tured photo for to­day is of my step brother, Ethan, who poses for me at our cabin up north.

Canon 30D + Sigma 70-200; Canon 580EX II; f=117mm; 1/50 @ f/5.6; ISO 400; Flash bounced off ceiling and bounce card.

Canon 30D + Sigma 70–200; Canon 580EX II; f=117mm; 1/50 @ f/5.6; ISO 400; Flash bounced off ceil­ing and bounce card.

Still have lots of im­ages from up north to come, so stay tuned.

- Caleb

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