On the roof
After a long basketball practice, I threw on my black Emery merch t-shirt and went to photograph the Ann Arbor Palestinian protests. Keeping the people I saw, and the atmosphere of the protest– with “Free, free Palestine,” chants reverberating across the city– in mind I carefully wrote the captions. When I left the city after the event, I recollect seeing a few protestors perked up above the roof of their cars, some on the roofs of restaurants, and in my photos, I tried to capture that vitality, the emotions, and the overall feelings of togetherness that I could perceive throughout.
Full photostory
Full photostory
On the trail
I glanced at the map and knew to take photos of teachers’ professional development, which was kayaking through cascades, I would need to walk alongside them on a path through Ann Arbor. To take the photos, I frequently needed to stand on rocks surrounding the cascades (from a safe distance so I didn’t get wet!), and I traveled as far as I could until I couldn’t trace them anymore. I caught some unflattering photos, of some teachers struggling to not get drenched in the cascades, of some who tipped over, but the end photostory came out well, and as my advisor joked I have blackmail if I need it.
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On the courts
On Huron’s courts, whether it be tennis or volleyball, the light conditions aren’t the best. The sunlight overexposed my tennis photos, while our infamous lower gym’s lighting, made every photo seem to come out black and white. Though these weren’t photogenic environments, I varied my angles, camera settings, and positioning to ensure I made the powerful serves or spikes look as cool as they did to me.
On the spot
Sometimes you need to take photos in an instant, and while my iPhone X isn’t the most functional, it's better than my old Moto G5. It helped me when I saw workers actually putting up our new school decals, which I thought was more intriguing to see than just the decals themselves, and during a teacher’s appreciation breakfast in which I was offered a doughnut afterward.