Final

This semester has been at times overwhelming but yet insightful, challenging but fun.  Coming from a place where dial up is the only way to get online, I think I have learned a lot in this surrounding.  I focused mainly on learning the cameras for photography and how to write articles this semester so I can learn how to video and edit next semester.  Even though I focused on these two things, I have learned so much that I can take into my future career.  Writing for the yearbook is probably different than writing scripts and other things I am going to learn but that is okay with me.  I am getting the basics.  I know how to set up an interview and how to conduct one.  I know this does not seem like a huge accomplishment but for me it is.  I grew up in a small town where I knew everyone by their middle names.  It was not hard to set up things like this there.  I am able to write without putting myself in the articles; I can if need be but I am learning how to write objectively.  I know now that you need to ask permission to record the voices of whoever you are interviewing.  Finally, I have learned how to format the writing the way it needs to be for the yearbook.

As for photography, I have learned so much!  I know how to set up the camera's ISO levels based on the lighting I am in.  If it is dark and little light is available, the camera needs to be on a setting of 1600.  If not usually setting it on AUTO is fine.  Since the midterm I have learned how to set up for portraits.  Its not exactly the camera but I know how to lay out the wires (and Bob taught me a really cool trick with rolling the wires) and connect them to the cameras.  I know how to set up the lighting, the umbrellas, and the hair light.  I actually had to set up by myself because Jess grabbed the wrong tripod and had to go back to the office.  Patrick is teaching me how to edit photos and how to know which pictures are what we want to have in the yearbook.  There can be a great picture and it not go into the yearbook because the people are not engaged.  I have edited many albums for him and after him.  Since moving out in the middle of no where to this tiny, personal college I have had more hands on experience doing things than I would ever get anywhere else.