At the end of the fall semester at the University of South Carolina, three buddies and I decided to road trip across the US. In order for us to road trip, we had to sacrifice not going to the Capital One bowl. Instead of being in Orlando, we decided to stop by good old Lincoln, Nebraska and show them some southern hospitality from the Gamecock nation. To show our true love for USC, two anonymous international students from Australia had previously tattooed a Gamecock on their butts.
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This photo was taken by Harry How at the 2011 Masters.
Nick Watney plays a bunker a shot on the second hole during the final round of the 2010 Masters Tournament.
I post this relating to the Masters since it was close to Columbia and it was very recent, being only last weekend. It made me think that doing golf photography would be fairly easy. They only play in the sunlight and if it’s late and/or raining they can’t play. This would be very easy for lighting situations. Along with the lighting helping to the photographers needs, the action is pretty much still for 4-5 hours while a player walks 18 holes. Swinging a club only takes a couple of seconds so with a fast shutter speed you can get all of the action like the photo above does. There is no back and forth action like there is in basketball and lacrosse. While the players walk to their next shot or hole you would have the chance to walk with them and change your equipment in case you were interested in using a different lens or changing the settings on your camera. So sign me up for golf photography 🙂
***For the extra credit I commented on Lindsey Daber’s blog
Zion
Photograph by Victor Novikov
Rising in Utah’s high plateau country, the Virgin River carves its way through Zion Canyon to the desert below. The park’s striking vertical topography—rock towers, sandstone canyons, and sharp cliffs—attracts 2.5 million visitors a year.
I was looking through the top 10 most visited national parks in the United States and Zion came up. Not only is this scenery beautiful, but the way the photo was taken adds to it. I love the long shutter speed on it to give the effect of running water throughout the mountains. I’ve always been fascinated with landscape/nature photos and I would like to play around with a long shutter speed in the near future and get a good shit such as this one.
Machu Picchu
Photograph by Robert Clark, National Geographic
Lofty Ambitions of the Inca
“Rising from obscurity to the heights of power, a succession of Andean rulers subdued kingdoms, sculpted mountains, and forged a mighty empire.”
This is a real crisp picture and while many have taken pictures of Machu Picchu, this photo is incredible. The contrast in color with the bright green grass against the dark green/brown mountains really show how different they are. The leading lines in the mountains draw you into the photo and if you follow the main one it gives you a notion of how vast the mountains around Machu Picchu really are. The clouds are almost like a mid-tone of the picture since you have a vibrant green along with a dull color of the mountains and the clouds are neutral. The settings on the picture I would guess ISO 100/200, f 2.8 with an average shutter speed.
Photograph by Vincent J. Musi, National Geographic
“A woman milks a mare in the village of Kogershin in southern Kazakhstan. Recent archaeological studies have shown that the Botai people of the Eurasian steppes were the first to actively domesticate horses, 5,500 years ago.”
This is a great picture of a woman milking a mare before night time and makes a great cover photo for this story. The sun eclipsing the shed during sunset is a great touch. I believe it complements the added light focused on the mare and the woman. For the most part the colors are regular and dull, but the red clothing makes a great contrast to the horse along with the background. Technically I’m not quite sure how he took the photo, but I would guess around a f 2.8 with an ISO around 400 or so.
With the tragedy in Japan, I thought it would be a great place to look at photos that tell a story about the tragedy. Here is the skyline of Tokyo, Japan. Any other day it would look even brighter than it already is, however it is dim compared to normal because power supply due to the destruction of the nuclear plants.
I love the contrast in the sky opposed to the skyline, even though it is night completely bright like it should be it does enough to tell the story about the power outage. The way the image is cropped with the one lit up skyscraper being dominant in the middle adds a nice touch even though it’s not symmetrical. It does not say who took this photo, but it is from cnn.com.
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/16/japan.tokyo.notebook.lah/index.html
With the sports photography project due this week I looked at sportsillustrated.com photos and chose to browse the pictures of the most recent Super Bowl. This photo was taken by John Iacono of Sports Illustrated.
This is Jordy Nelson of the Green Bay Packers catching the first touchdown pass of Super Bowl XLV. He is catching the pass over William Gay of the Pittsburgh Steelers and this makes a great sports photo for the conflict. During the lecture of sports photography this photo features conflict by one person of each team fighting for a ball that is present in the photo. With the ball already caught, Gay is struggling to make a play on the ball because the receiver has already beaten him. This photo is also very clean with each player being so clear by not being jumbled up with the linemen also in play. This was shot with a 300mm telephoto lens.
Here are the facts about the demographics of Columbia, SC.
Berkeley Electric Cooperative is the largest electric cooperative in South Carolina, and one of the top 20 in the nation. Along with this the Greenville Hospital System is one of the largest in the southeast.
Some of the biggest industries include textile manufacturing and tourism.
Average income:Â $28,285 (2005 – ranked 43rd)
Largest non-profit organizations: Palmetto Health is a South Carolina nonprofit public benefit corporation consisting of Palmetto Health Richland and Palmetto Health Baptist in Columbia and Easley. All three of their hospitals are highly respected, long-time members of the community dedicated to providing the best health care possible.
Carolinas HealthCare System is the Carolinas’ largest healthcare system and is one of the nation’s largest public non-profit health systems. The network consists of 25 hospitals in North and South Carolina and more than 300 care locations. CHS’s flagship facility is Carolinas Medical Center, an 874-bed hospital in Charlotte, N.C., with a Level I trauma center, a research institute and a large number of specialty treatment units including heart, cancer, organ transplant and behavioral health. CMC also serves as one of North Carolina’s five Academic Medical Center Teaching Hospitals, providing residency training for more than 240 physicians in 18 specialties. In 2008, CHS provided $770 million in community benefits among its hospitals and affiliates.
Churches and denominations:Â Evangelical Protestants account for a majority of the religiously active residents in the state. The largest single Christian denomination in 2000 was the Southern Baptist Convention with 928,341 adherents. The next largest of the Evangelical denominations were the Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) with 56,612 adherents and the Pentecostal Holiness Church with 33,820 adherents. The largest Mainline Protestant denominations were the United Methodist Church, 302,528; the Presbyterian Church USA, 103,883; and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, 61,380. The Episcopal Church had great influence during colonial times, but in 2000 it had only 52,486 members. There were 136,719 Roman Catholics, an estimated 11,000 Jews, 17,586 adherents to the Baha’i faith, and 5,761 Muslims. About 2.1 million people (52.4% of the population) were not counted as members of any religious organization.
http://www.jobbankusa.com/jobs/south_carolina_sc/job_employment_largest_employers.html
http://www.city-data.com/states/South-Carolina-Religions.html
In the previous week I was reading cnn.com and I stumbled across this photo.
“A shocking portrait of an Afghan woman whose ears and nose were sliced off by her husband as punishment for leaving him, taken by Jodi Bieber for Time magazine, won the top World Press Photo prize on Friday.
Bibi Aisha, an 18-year-old woman from Oruzgan province in Afghanistan, left her husband complaining of domestic violence. A Taliban commander ordered that she face justice and her husband cut off her nose and ears. She now lives in the United States where she had reconstructive surgery.” (CNN)
Jodi Bieber took an incredible picture displaying the way other countries still hand out punishments rather than the way we do in a democracy. Could you imagine an 18 year old American girl have the same thing done as punishment after her not having the choice of marriage? It makes you really believe that we live in the best country if anyone didn’t already previously know. As far as the photo goes, it’s nice that the background is dimly lit to show the melancholy feel of the picture. I also believe her pose and the diffused light is perfect for this photo.
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