Testing the camera before letting Gma take a whack at the "knees up family portrait." We hate this.

I DARE YOU NOT TO YAWN AT THESE OUTTAKES!

I checked out a D3 and had a 28mm f/2.8 attached ready to shoot for my final project in EPJ. The subject fell through, so I thought I'd take it with me to document our evening out; at 6400 ISO. Who doesn't love a little noise?

Chris Weyrauch: Chauffeur

Saint #1






(Photo by Phoebe Sexton)

Eric loves car bombs and being a bad role model.

Saint #2

The moment before I lost my eye.

http://waterlife.nfb.ca/

Water is Life

This project is about the Great Lakes and the problems affecting it; be it pollution, invasive species, shipping, etc. It also covers topics related to the Lakes’ statuses as on eof the worlds largest freshwater resources – namely bottling, tap water, and how international trade affects the waters.

This is a behemoth of a multimedia project. It incorporates tons of video, audio, still images, infographics, and interactive slides.

The site is easily navigated, with a hidden menu around the left margin, and a menu/timeline at the bottom.

Everything about this site is interactive and mimics the concept of water. The timeline on the bottom mimics waves, the index page is a mock-up of the Great lakes composed of all the individual video files – and is interactive and is used as a thematic device by transmographying into different pertinent shapes. Even the paper clips and paper notes in the background of some infographic pages will move around in response to the mouse.

The use of audio and background music is amazing. Water sounds, orchestral scores, and more. The interviews and b-roll audio are also well done.

This project was actually harder than I thought it would be. The problem being the importation of soundslides to Flash.

I also had trouble with getting the buttons to work. This was probably the most frustrating, as in the class assignment everything worked well except the dynamic preloader.

I chose the content for the two chapters as two of my final projects for my 3 photo classes. My big regret being I don't have much audio yet. I'm also unsure of the color scheme. I really need to settle on a personal "brand/style" before I really let this loose on the website.

I really need to figure out how to make everything flow better and work smoothly - particularly the audio and preloader as previously stated.