Day 220 of 365 days. I had made up my mind yesterday to do a Matrix picture today. For a couple reasons. One, I enjoyed my Scarface poster from the other day. And also, this weeks Class With Dave assignment was to do a Matrix inspired picture. Unfortunately, I didn’t have a very strong idea.…
For Class With Dave. Assignment: Reportage
Two city blocks in the Carrick region of Pittsburgh were blocked off today by police and fire personel after a minor accident involving two city buses and a gasoline truck. While the police were detouring traffic around, I took the opportunity to park my car and take advantage of my good luck for this weeks assignment. Not as cool as when I witnessed a shooting a couple months ago, but it was something.
For Class with Dave. Assignment: Fill the frame
I actually fill the frame on portraits all the time, so I wanted to do something a little different. I ended up stopping by the Mt. Oliver Fire Department on my way home the other day and asked if I could take pictures of them cleaning their trucks. Initially I was going to use that as my "newsworthy" photo, but frankly all of them sucked. But I did like this shot and so here it is.
For Class with Dave. Assignment: Landscape
Three men fishing on the dock over the Mononghelia River in Pittsburgh.
For the take a Class with Dave group. Assignment: Take an interesting picutre of a street sign.
For the take a Class with Dave group. Assignment: Take a picture suggesting religion.
This is a statue outside of one of the 18 billion churches in a three block radius in the Oakland area of Pittsburgh.
Day 206 of 365 days. I had actually been thinking of doing this back when Steph was doing her tributes to famous paintings, but I never got around to it. But I then when I got this weeks Class With Dave assignment I was happy that I’d be able to use it. This image is…
Day 201 of 365 days. I’ve had this idea since maybe the first or second week I started this project. I just never got around to doing it before. I think I even mentioned to TravelinJim on a pic of his that I had a cool long exposure idea. Well, since I’m going to be…
Taken for Class With Dave. The assignment was quite simple, present a picture showing teamwork. I figured what could be more indicative of teamwork than a sporting event. This was taken at the Penguins/Devils game that we went to earlier this week.
Day 199 of 365 days. There was actually a lot I wanted to get around to doing today. Working on some photo editting. Working on my paper for the conference. Playing some quality video games. Didn’t really get to any of that. Instead, I spent the day doing phone interviews for a couple different jobs.…
For the take a Class with Dave group. No real story. I had a to take a picture of something representing three. The week went by without any good ideas and I settled on this. There are three balls and one of them is the three ball. Woohoo!
Stephanie was good enough to pose for me in her underwear a second week in a row for my Class with Dave assignment so long as I kept it PG-13. The assignment of course, was to take a picture representing blue. This was the best idea I could think of. Two weeks, two color cutouts. Go go gadget cliché!
Did a photo shoot with my nine month pregnant friend Gina the other day. I haven’t edited most of the photos yet (I’m still working on editing the pics from the shoot before it) but I wanted to use this one for Class with Dave.
Anyway, Gina wanted nice artsy pictures of herself while pregnant. And since the baby is due any day now, it seemed like we should get them done sooner rather than later.
The class with Dave assignment was to create a backlit silhouette. And Gina wanted one anyway, it all worked out perfectly.
Taken for the Class with Dave group. The assignment was to make a partial desaturation/color cutot picture with on one color. This is of course something I’ve done a bunch so it wasn’t that big a deal. But I tried to find a good subject to do it with. Steph was nice enough to pose for me for a pic (a rare occurance actually) and this is what I came up with.
Taken for the Class with Dave group. The assignment was to make a fake album cover. I didn’t have any great ideas (I blame it on me being sick pretty much all week) so I adapted one of this week’s 365 shots. I highly considered putting a "HIT #1 SINGLE!" sticker on it, but steph convinced me that it doesn’t really need one, so I stuck with just the parental advisory label.