Paul Cohen Speaks to Flagler Filmmakers

Paul Cohen, the director of Florida State University's Torchlight Program, came to Flagler College today to speak about the business of making movies.

Night Photos

This photo may be too dark for our purposes, but I like how the light brought out just enough detail to let you know what you're looking at.

For this assignment I visited a couple of local St. Augustine Bars, Tradewinds Lounge and the White Lion Pub, to get a feew images of people relaxing. Both bars had completely different moods from subdued to rowdy. The majority of these images (the first three) come from the Tradewinds Lounge where Troy Locke was rocking the crowd with his band MATANZAS.

In Class Project: Photos of Photographers

Steve Meehan, 21, gets up after shooting.

Today's in class assignment was photograph a portrait of photographers while shooting. I shot a picture of Steve as he was shooting outside the Library building.

Environmental Portrait: the Cori Jacket

Cori Talbot, age 17 in the Yellow Jacket Suit, and her friend Shelby Jane, age 17 in the Mask, grapple with their dinner.

Cori Talbot towering over her mask, showcasing her unique ceiling decoration.

"Buzz" the SAHS Yellow Jacket as portrayed by Cori Talbot.

For my Environmental Portrait I chose Cori Talbot, the current bearer of the long running Yellow Jacket mascot tradition for St. Augustine High School. These pictures were all taken in her environment, her room, along with her friend Shelby who is a semi-permanent fixture of that place.

Motion Studies

Melissa Strait being a sport and allowing me to capture her movement around a room.

Sarah getting into the Volleyball game at the St. Augustine Pier.

Karla saving the volley during the same game at the St. Augustine Pier.

Here are a few of my practice runs with freezing and blurring motion by using gimmicks on my Cannon SD790 point and shoot. I've found that the auto-correcting imagery are making things a little more difficult to take pictures, but there are some work-arounds I've managed to hammer out. For one, ISO seems to be the only way to capture motion on my camera currently and it suffers terribly in low light situations with excessive image noise.

Motion Final

Megan Frost, 23 from St. Augustine, leaps from the Methodist Church Wall on Carerra Street.

Megan Frost, 23 from St. Augustine, zooms by on her bycicle outside of an abandoned building near Scarlett Ohara's.

I took many pictures of different subjects, but decided to use Megar as my subject because, as a friend of mine, she was easily manipulated into doing multiple shots to help with my technique. So here are two of the better pictures of Megan in action.

Portrait with Caption

Aleah Tschudi, a 21-year-old esthetician (skin care specialist), says her favorite part of St. Augustine is

the quaintness of it.

Feature Photo

Victoria Barnett, curator of the National Holocaust Museum, takes in a difficult question from the student panel after her lecture.

Families come together to play volleyball at the pier at night. Chris laughed along with Marco and John as his attempt to save the volley was defeated by the net.

Chris volley's the ball with a move that looks more prayer than anything else.

This series of photographs was made as an attempt to field a feature photo. I tried to get a sense of action through the Volleyball series but ended up learning more about my camera's "action" setting and it's aversion to low-light situations. The Volleyball players were all good sports (no pun intended) in letting me take pictures of their game, but declined their last names. To give credit to those in attendance pictured and not pictured, their names were as follows: Marco, John, Sarah, Karla, Jacob, Sam and Chris.