Photoshoot

I had my first job taking pictures this past week. I mean, I'm in yearbook, so I guess that's sort of an unpaid job, so I should say my first PAID job taking pictures. A teacher at my school runs a tutoring program after school. He wanted me to take photos for "promotional purposes." Yes, it really was not super-duper exciting, but I learned alot and it was a good experience. I've become pretty decent at taking photos of THINGS - trees, landscapes (sortof), buildings, objects. But not so much of people or actions. This was good to help me develop that skill.

For my spring break, I went to visit my sister in Georgia. One of her friends, Garrett, let me borrow this fantastic book called The Poetry of Photography. I didn't get to read the whole thing, but one part I came across said that when we take a photo, we often forget to look around the edges. We only look at the middle part and don't realize something significant is being cut out - or included - in the photo that we don't want. That book made me realize I take some crappy photos! people's heads or arms cut off, strange things happening/being there when you don't want them to be. And even with digital cameras, we sometimes still can't pick it up till we're looking at a computer.

I also learned about people. Some people are obnoxious. Let me rephrase that. All people are obnoxious. Some people are less so, and everybody is in different ways. The people who don't seem obnoxious to us probably are to someone else, or they've matured enough to disguise it to most people. I love us, but we're obnoxious. Anyway, middle school is the most obnoxious point in all of our lives. Taking pictures of middle schoolers is the worst. most of them avoid being caputred at all costs. They just make the job difficult.

There's this one boy, Kameron, who was the opposite. I love him, but I'm sure to others he is obnoxious. I just think he's cute :). anyway. He LOVES to be in pictures. Loves it. He told me. He said (talking about this kid who kept one eye on me the whole time to make sure I wasn't pointing at him), "Hunter hates being in pictures. I don't. I love it. Then I snapped this photo:




This is the book he was reading. He said "It's so sad. The girl is so sad because someone stole her horse, and it makes me so sad!" That's all. :)