South Portland High School Marching Band

Sorry for the delay, but here are the photos I took at the Biddeford show a few weeks ago.

If you yank any and use them on facebook PLEASE link back to this blog. Thanks! :)

Lately in my photographs I've been trying to use the foreground more to add interest, information or a nice frame to the subject.

I'm also working on not cropping out hands or feet, which is difficult when the subject is moving around and you can't direct, but I've found it's not impossible as long as I stay aware of the edges of my frame.

My professor has hounded us a lot about not getting stuck at eye level taking photos, so this is my effort to tilt my camera more ;)

I got a few crowd shots, but to be honest - the crowd sucked! There's even a photo from the last entry with a trumpet player in the actual stands playing right into people's faces and they still look super serious about the whole thing.

Fin!

My plan for the next blog is to show some new color work and a few things I've learned about nature photography. Comments are always welcome! :)

Photojournalism: Marching Band Show

These photos were taken at the Biddeford marching band competition. I was there primarily to see the South Portland Red Riots marching band, but I wasn't able to scan those negatives in on time to post this tonight and I wanted to share at least something. I hope to post again this weekend or next week with those photos and a few other stragglers that didn't get scanned tonight.

It was a great show!

Technical info: these were all shot with my Pentax ZX-M then scanned into a computer using a badass film scanner my school owns. I shot with a mixture of 400, 1600 and 3200 speed films. The 3200 came out surprisingly clean since the shop I bought it from warned me the grain would be "the size of gravel". I must caution though that the development time for that film was a staggering TWENTY MINUTES. Ugh. Never again!!!

I saw this man with his big ol' 300mm Canon lens and just had to get a snap. He looks like the quintessential sports photographer, right down to the backwards ball cap :D

This judge sat down in front of me creating the perfect shot - look at that poor kids face!

I spotted this guy when he was in the stands across the gym from me trying to get photos (all the performers were facing away from him, so he eventually moved over pretty close to me and blocked a few shots, leading me to snap a few of him ;)

2 new and inspiration

^{"Grit" - model: leslie}

^{SPHS Red Riot marching band @ the 2008 Finals (gold medal winners!)}

I haven't had a lot of time to take new photos... "Grit" is from last year, and the marching band one is from this past weekend, one of the very few times I've been able to get out my camera lately. I miss it!

So since I have nothing particularly interesting of my own to show, and nothing particularly interesting to say, I want to show some photographs that inspire me to work harder at photography and never stop trying to improve myself. You can also look at them as an example of the kinds of photos I want to take.
All the photos have the artists name underneath, and clicking either the photos or the name will take you to the photo on deviantART where you can see it in a larger view and also see more work by the photographer.
All the images are copyrighted to their respective owners.


by princess-of-dream
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by DearestGrudge
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by aydan-kerimli
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And anything at all by Zhang Jingna, who manages to make me happy, sad, jealous, and inspired all at once.


So if you want to make beautiful art like that, please, let's work together and making something wonderful.