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Central Hudson v. Public Service Commission (in the style of Dr. Seuss)

Central Hudson v. Public Service Commission (in the style of Dr. Seuss)

Posted by on Nov 22, 2013 in Multimedia |

  In my Media Ethics class I had to come up with a creative, entertaining way to explain the Central Hudson c. Public Service Commission Supreme Court case. What’s more creative and entertaining than Dr. Seuss?! I wrote out a rhyming, Seuss-ified script and presented it to my class while they ate fruit snacks and sat on the large area rug I had brought with me.  My professor was so amused that she asked to have the license to use it for future classes.  I offered to do her one better and make an illustrated video version. I made every element of this video myself.  The images were drawn in Photoshop, I recorded my narration in QuickTime, and I compiled the whole thing in iMovie. On a sidenote, I’m not sure why my American Supreme Court Justice has a British accent....

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10 Lessons Learned WIP

10 Lessons Learned WIP

Posted by on Nov 22, 2013 in Multimedia |

  For my Professional Presentations class I needed to make a self-advancing slideshow with some kind of audio. I chose “10 Lessons” for my topic.  After batting a few ideas around, I decided I wanted my slideshow to have a strong “time” theme, so I thought it might be neat to use a steampunk-flavored design and an instrumental version of the song, “Too Late to Apologize.” I really wanted to implement the movements of an old-fashioned clock.  To pull this off I had to do quite a bit of research and fiddling around in PowerPoint.  I made a tutorial documenting my findings here. Due to the number of animations I used, the slideshow didn’t play properly with the music. I used Quicktime to screencapture pieces of the presentation and spliced it all together in Avid to make sure all the animations would line up properly to the beat. It’s been pretty work-intensive! I probably won’t get around to splicing it all together, especially now that I’m learning how much easier all of this would be to do in After Effects. While I will probably never use PowerPoint for something this elaborate again, it was well worth it to stun my professor and classmates when it was my turn to present!...

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Scarborough Fair Brochure

Scarborough Fair Brochure

Posted by on Nov 22, 2013 in Graphics |

    For this assignment I was tasked with designing a two-sided, folding brochure for an event or company.  I decided to make a design for a fictional Renaissance Festival in Orlando.  I wanted to create a visual pun based on the traditional ballad, “Scarborough Fair,” by placing images of parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme on the peeking panel.  I echoed that design element by picking four shades of green from those images and repeating them in squares throughout the brochure. Most of the work for this project was completed in Adobe InDesign. I created the Celtic knot logo in Adobe Illustrator and I removed the background from the photo of the toasting couple in Photoshop.  I collected the photos from the internet, as this is an educational-purposes...

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Zions Bank Banner

Zions Bank Banner

Posted by on Nov 21, 2013 in Graphics |

  I designed this logo for the team behind Quidlum.com as a pitch to Zions Bank. In creating this banner, I tried to replicate the style of the Zions Bank website. It was great practice for Illustrator’s pen...

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KayAnne

KayAnne

Posted by on Oct 2, 2013 in Photography, Portrait |

I’m not sure this girl can get any cuter.  Here are a few of my favorite shots of little KayAnne from our recent photoshoot at her grandparents’ orchard.  She had three outfits–a pink and green jumper, a green shirt paired with a gray skirt, and the most adorable flamingo outfit I have ever seen. I could not get enough of the flouncy pink tutu! A pre-shoot shot of KayAnne in grandma’s red wagon with her favorite book. Mommy is pulling her. In the orchard. KayAnne picked a clover for me! Nothing goes together as sweetly as pink tutus and handmade rocking horses. KayAnne loves her tutu. Mommy wanted her to change into her third outfit, but KayAnne had other ideas. KayAnne started to get tired and decided she wanted a nap in her wagon. She fluffed up her tutu as a pillow and lay down. I managed to catch the perfect moment as she looked up at me. After taking a break to let her play, we convinced her to put on her last outfit, a special favorite of Daddy’s. These shots were taken in a lovely grove near the...

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Rexburg Spring

Rexburg Spring

Posted by on Jul 12, 2013 in Blog, Photography, Places | 1 comment

Idaho winters are long and the novelty of snow quickly loses its appeal.  Fortunately, the beauty of Spring here makes up for it.  I took most of these photos the morning of Memorial Day, when the streets of Rexburg were quite and the sidewalks were lined with American flags.  I had some time to kill so I went for a wonderful walk around town photographing flowers and Old Glory.  I’m no gardener, but I can certainly appreciate those who are.  By the time I took these Memorial Day photos the tulips had already gone the way of all the earth, so I’m really glad I snapped a few photos of the tulips outside of my apartment a couple weeks earlier.     Most people would argue that dandelions aren’t flowers, but they’re so cute…   The new Brigham Young University – Idaho Spori building, where I spend most of my time.   Tulips and pansies....

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Sunbeams in the Old House on the Hill

Sunbeams in the Old House on the Hill

Posted by on Jul 12, 2013 in Blog, Photography, Places |

On our way home from our last excursion for Professional Imaging, the group I was riding with was levied a challenge to find the most interesting photo spot in half an hour.  We ended up finding this dilapidated house out in the middle of nowhere.  The sun was coming through it at such a neat angle.  My classmate Max had the brilliant idea to toss dust up into the rafters to catch the sunbeams.    ...

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Excursion to Virginia City

Excursion to Virginia City

Posted by on Jul 12, 2013 in Blog, Photography, Places |

For my second excursion with me Professional Imaging class, we stayed in Sis. Esplin’s lovely cabin on the river.  Our focus this time was macro and fashion, but the scenery was too beautiful to resist shooting as well. Before getting to the cabin we took a small detour to shoot in an awesome field of daisies.  I’ve never seen wild daisies before, so I was shocked at their size and vibrancy.  Dotted among the daisies were cute little dandelions.  Did you know that the white puffy top of a dandelion is called the tock?         We arrived at the cabin a little before sunset, and the lighting was just gorgeous.  This is a shot of the river through the trees.   After the sun had gone down I went out with Sis. Esplin to lightpaint at a horse barn a short while away.  This handsome old machine made a good subject.   I thought sunset on the river was beautiful–I was in for a treat when I saw the river in the morning!  I accidentally took the first picture with a tungsten white balance, but I ended up loving the surreal blue tint.       We stopped for lunch in a small town en route to Virginia City and we were given free time to roam around scouting the little place out.  I used the opportunity to do a lot of experimenting with angles and my camera settings.  I was particularly enamored with a tiny yellow house that was apparently considered a rich residence in its heyday.     Virginia City is a well-preserved little piece of history.  We had arranged to do our fashion shoot in the old-fashioned town, and before the shoot we were told to get a feel for the city.     Before heading in each evening of the excursion we stopped to light-paint various curiosities.  The first was this old train near Virginia City, and the second is the “Rue Inn” not far from Rexburg....

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Excursion through Yellowstone

Excursion through Yellowstone

Posted by on Jul 12, 2013 in Blog, Photography, Places |

My first photography excursion with my Professional Imaging class took me through little Idaho towns, a beautiful lodge viewing the Tetons, through Yellowstone National Park and finally to a tiny resort town called Victor.  Along the way I got to see an array of natural wonders and an old-fashioned gas station by a railway. I’m not much of a connoisseur of old industrial things, so figuring out how to photograph diesel pumps and rail cars was a challenge for me.  The sky was murky at the time, which seemed pretty suiting.  I’d gotten my new lens right before the trip so I did some experimenting with the zoom.     We stayed the night at the lovely Sky Mountain Lodge.  We’d arrived at night, so I had no idea just how pretty it was until the sunrise broke.  I was so tired, but I couldn’t miss the chance to shoot the amazing scenery.  Here are a few of my favorite shots!         We’d planned for some specific stops in Yellowstone National Park but found that many of them were closed off for bear watch.  Fortunately, there is nowhere in Yellowstone that isn’t interesting to see, and I was able to get these shots of a majestic waterfall, a billowing geyser, and a mysterious shallow pool shrouded in steam.       Our last stop was Victor, a little resort town on the edge of Yellowstone.  Victor is overlooked by a tall stone pillar that’s sort of the opposite of a stalactite or a stalagmite. Instead of being formed from the residue of water dripping down, this pillar is made from the minerals brought to the surface from the geyser beneath.  Not many years ago it still bubbled and oozed, but now it seems to be dormant.  Nearby, a still active geyser spills its steaming water in fascinating cascades.  We used flashlights to light paint the structure after the sun went down.  We had to be cautious not to move to much while our cameras maintained their long exposures because we were standing on a boardwalk that vibrated whenever it was walked over.  ...

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