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A Tight Red Storm

And then it grew and went to the Gardner Center.

Mascot Storm

As Dixie State College is undergoing a change of mascots, and as it is not a very popular change, and as I am a student of Photojournalism, I, along with the rest of my class, thought it an opportune time to practice my Photojournalism elite skills on the protest against the new mascot. I thought it was just going to be a few students, but it turned into a major protest, complete with "city fathers" and others from the community, all protesting the change from "Rebels" to "Red Storm." It was nice of them to show up for this "Shoot Tight" assignment.
I was shooting with 400 ASA film (no convenience of digital on this one). I had some trouble freezing the action with that film speed, so some movement was blurred, but actually, that worked. I mean, Mayor McArthur's hand really does blur when he leads a rousing chorus of "Are You From Dixie?"
Also, because of the change from outdoor to indoor lighting when we went to the bigger Gardner Center, shooting without flash caused a yellowish hue, which I tried to correct in post-editing.
In shooting tight, I was able to transcend the mass of the crowd and capture a few private moments, which I thought was a nice way to show more individual impact. And zooming in from across campus still helped set the context of what was happening.
My take on the mascot argument? Being a photojournalist, you know that I am perfectly impartial. But I think the Red Storm is going the way of New Coke, and someday we'll see the return of "Rebel Classic."

Car Salesman’s Got Da Blues

So there’s this big blue guy and he’s yelling, “Buy a car! Really, I mean it! Buy a car now!! Or else, I might end up temporarily closed.”
Often, when I’m trying to shoot something that looks impressively huge, the camera tends to squeeze it down and flatten it. Wide-angle seems to bring it back into a panoramic view.

Parade of Foreclosures

Once upon a time, St. George built a lot of big houses. People bought them so they could sell them. Until nobody wanted to buy them anymore. But we're still building them anyway.
This is my wide angle study. I realized how wide angle gets everything in at the periphery but pushes everything further away. Temptation to zoom. Must . . . not . . . z - o - o - m . . .