Snapshots around Baltimore

May 7, 2016
Snapshots around Baltimore

Ventured out to the Kinetic Sculpture Races, put on by the American Visionary Arts Museum, and brought my 28mm all the while wishing it was a 35 or 50. So to work around that, I decided to play around with shooting with an in-camera cropped frame, as if I had a cropped body sensor. The difference in quality was immediately apparent when I began editing the photos, but still it was fun to pretend I had a more moderate length lens and try to frame a little differently today. Certainly didn’t master it, a lot of images had to be thrown out because I chopped off key bits of my subjects. But as always, fun to play around with composition in a casual setting. 

Stay POSTed: Episode 1

January 26, 2016
Stay POSTed: Episode 1

This is the first in a series of entries that highlight work that ran in The Post, the student-run publication I work for as a photo editor. I hope to showcase work I’m proud of, my thoughts behind how I approached assignments and whether or not the idea worked. 

For the portrait: my original idea was to take the portrait where the incident occurred to show just how public it was, and how in the daylight, it looks so average, so pedestrian. Trying to convey the idea of her feeling unsafe in such an common place. I didn’t get that but we did shoot in her apartment I loved the neutral and subdued soft light from the window.