Photoblog 1: Bailey Performance Hall

First of all, let me apologize for not starting my photoblog on the day that I said I would. This week has been exhaustingly long due to the 8am-5pm music clinic I’ve been going to at Kennesaw State University and my inability (or perhaps avoidance) of going to sleep each night! Which brings me to this picture.

Bailey Performance Hall

This is a quick glimpse into what we were doing this morning. In an effort to expand our minds and not just confine us to musical information solely, Michael Alexander (pictured on the left), who is also the head of the music college at KSU asked [insert name here] to explain to us the importance of posture and thus, we learned how to enhance our playing by being comfortable within ourselves.

This shot is a perfect example of a spontaneous image of something that is occuring at an exact moment- something that cannot be captured the exact way again. These pictures are priceless, and they have great value in journalistic environments.

I modified the photography in several ways from the original:

1) I take all of my digital photographs in color, in the case that I can add a black and white effect later on if I choose to do so. There are many ways that you can add a grayscale effect- one is found on most digital cameras in the form of a grayscale photographing mode. On my camera (Nikon D40) I have an effects menu, and one of them is an option to grayscale.

(Part of the idea of grayscale is to take an element [color] out of the photography to enhance the emotion in the depiction, and/or the different values of light. Use this to your advantage, and since black and white film came before color, it can add a dated elegance to whatever you shoot!)

2) I added a vignetting filter from a program called Photoscape, a free photo editing software that does a WONDERFUL job adding filters and such to images. This vignetting effect allows for more focus on the subject, and also adds another dating effect to the image.

(Beware! You can add filters and such to your images, but if you do, make sure that what you’re doing is what you intend to do- too much manipulation can make an image too busy and detract from the original art.)

Well, that’s all for today. I hope you learned something, and I’ll HOPEFULLY have something for you again tomorrow!

Sincerely,
Taylor Rambo