As a photographer, I’ve long been interested in panoramas. I think they help extend the limitations of my camera by more completely capturing landscapes in a manner that provides an altered or distorted perspective. As a predominately digital photographer that’d rather put work on the web than deal with the tedium and cost of printing, [...]

The ski season is winding down and we’ve now had a couple months to play with the helmet camera that the ski club I’m President of recently acquired. As such, I spent last night assembling a short compilation of our footage from the season. I don’t have nearly as much footage as I’d like, but [...]

Last fall, I took an intermediate photography course here at Pomona. For the final project in the class, I decided to apply a technique I’d been developing in the class to create some sort of dialogue about the nature of portraiture. To do so, I took traditional portraits of eight friends taken in the dorm [...]

As a Media Studies major at Pomona College, I enrolled in the major’s senior seminar this past fall. The course brought about 50 students from five campuses and five concentrations together who’d taken media studies-related course in any number of disciplines with. As many of our experiences of media studies differed vastly, the seminar was [...]

I’m currently taking an Advanced Digital Imaging course and one of our text’s is Scott Kelby’s 7-Point System for Adobe Photoshop. The book is composed of a number of tutorials that utilize 7 techniques “for taking your images from flat to fantastic.” The techniques include: raw processing, curve adjustments, shadow/highlight, painting with light, channel adjustments, [...]