After a semester of fumbling around with strobes, sometimes it’s nice to just use available light. And 70-200mm lenses. 
C.J. Fam, the nine-year-old lead actress in the Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre’s summer production of “Annie,” waits for the start of rehearsal on June 7. She has previously worked in productions of “Sleeping Beauty,” as Maleficent, and “The Sound of Music,” as Marta, but says Annie is her favorite role to play. Fam hopes to one day act on Broadway.
Whew.
Last week was my first as part of the photo staff of the Columbia Missourian– I’m taking Staff Photo over the summer so I can actually graduate in May 2010 (and because my lease already goes through August, so I figured I’d just stay in town as opposed to going the sublease route). I shot six assignments in four days, although I’ve only had one official six-hour shift. I know I have a long way to go as far as my photographic content and composition is concerned (not to mention the fact that I’m still perfecting all of the technical stuff- gah), so I really wanted to get as many shooting opportunities in as possible this summer- the more practice, the better. I start my Qualitative Research Methods class on Monday, which is going to cut into the amount of time I have to take volunteer assignments…so I’m trying to squeeze in everything I can while I can.
Here is the most important lesson I have learned this week: I have much to learn.
Another important lesson I have learned: I’ve already learned a lot. I didn’t even realize how much I had been absorbing in Fundamentals and Advanced until I got thrown out onto the streets of Columbia with an old Missourian Nikon. Hooray!
Anyway, these are the selects from this past week (this weird slideshow format is temporary- as soon as I can get a computer that has both Bengalspace AND Soundslides Plus, I’ll put up a Soundslides show with captions)- many thanks and kudos to Erin for her sick nasty editing and Photoshop toning skills. The links to the actual articles that accompanied the photos are here. Also, you should check out everybody else’s Staff photos on the Missourian website, because they rock.
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