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2008 Presidential Campaign

I took these photos this fall during Barack Obama's 2008 Presidential Campaign in Youngstown. Obama wasn't there, but Bill Clinton was!

Reenactment Video

This is the video I made with some of the photos from the reenactment I shot this past weekend.I know that the quality isn't great, but when posting it here, that's the best I can do. Let me know what you all think. I hope that you all had a great weekend as well.

Yanks vs. Rebs

These photos are just a few of the photos I took this past Memorial Day weekend in Burton, OH at a Civil War reenactment. These photos also appear in the movie which will soon be posted above. I'm having trouble uploading it, so it may take some time.

Amazing Grace

These are some photos I took of my Dad yesterday while he was performing at the Alliance Memorial Day Service. COMING SOON: Civil War reenactment photos!

Alliance

Downtown Alliance as seen from the public library.

HDR Photography

I took this photo using a technique of photography known as HDR photography or High Dynamic Range photography. What I did was take several of the same exact photos (using a tripod of course) using bracketing. This way I could get lights and darks...and so fourth. Then I took the images and put them all together into one in photoshop. After that I took the image into another program and did did some tonemapping. This second program is responsible for the watermark on my photos, because I am using a trial version of the program, so they think I'll get tired of the watermark being on all my photos and so I'll want to buy it. Not quite. Though this type of photography produces great results...often very embellished, I am not all that fond of it, because it takes away from the true essence of what I feel photography is...truth or real life. So, I might continue to dabble in this, even though I could never use it in my photojournalism work, I will always feel somewhat like a cheater, because it is not exactly truth.

Skys of Blue

I have just been drooling over how beautiful the sky has been these past few days. I've been eyeing this spot for almost a year now.

Hiking on a Beautiful Day

I went on a little hike this morning at the Mount Union Nature Preserve....here is part of my journey!

My Mamma!

Just Beat It

I haven't played my drums in a while so today I put my set together and had some fun. I tried some lighting stuff with my new light stand, I can now do some cool stuff with the flash off of the camera.

Camping

I went camping this weekend with some of my close friends from school. It was our last weekend at the "bury" so we thought we'd make it a good one.