day six as a photojuornalist

Hello, today I took pictures of the kids at my local park making rainbow colored pots from play-dough for their book club meeting. The book they read was Dave the Potter. The kids there are very talented kids and I got lots of pictures and here they are.

Pretty cool huh?Hopefully I’ll have something to post tomorrow see ya.

day five as a photojouralist

Last Saturday I went to this awesome place in down town Atlanta Called M.O.D.A.(Museum Of Design Atlanta) And learned about…LEGO MINDSTORM You know robotic legos and afterword we went to SONIC!!! I got a chilidog, chili fries, and a Reeses shake. I also got dad to get some motsarela sticks but I didn’t tell him why. And when we got back I had a session with S (and that’s who I gave the cheese sticks to.)at my local creek. There I took pix with S’s camera (I love that camera) of…BLIGHTLY COLORED FLOWERS IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE,

Well and of course water ripples

but it was fun nonethelesswell that’s pretty much what happened I’ll check back with you tomorrow, Zakgoessolo, peace

day four as a photo journalist

Today I took some photos of my new LEGO Harry Potter mini Hogwarts set and I put all of the characters in different poses and posted them here.

Harry Potter

Harry Potter being chased by a Dementor

Prof. Sprout Tutoring Nevile Longbottom about the Mandrake root...he forgot to wear earmuffs, fainted and dropped the mandrake on himself. "My, my," said Sprout

Narcissa Malfoy is looking for the sword of Griffindor in the sorting hat.

Ron is sleeping...again

Dead Baselesk, Sleeping Ron, And Narcissa.

Lucius Malfoy is lighting the torches.

The Mirror of Desires.

Remus Lupin is tutoring Hermionie in Defence Against The Dark Arts.

Hermionie's Dorm (Does the book give it away?).

Snakes are escaping the Slitheren dorm.

Hagrid is tending to a wounded Unicorn and...Voldemort is the culprit with Nagini by his side.

Goyle is mourning over his best friend Crabe (Recently passed...the idiot burned himself alive).

HOGWARTS SCHOOL OF WITCH CRAFT AND WIZARDRY

(there's the sword!)

And after all that hard work...

My Homemade chinese food dinner (sooooo goooood)

Well thats day four for you...four you Ha ha ha ha ha

Day three as a photo journalist

Sorry I’ve been gone. It’s been raining…A LOT, so I wasn’t able to take any photos (my camera goes wacky in cold weather), so I’m officially making today day three.

Today I went to my local park for a session with S, and she gave me six rules for photography to work on for the week.

• First, THE ONE THIRD RULE. The rule of one third means to imagine a grid of nine squares on your view finder and set your subject in one of the four corners of the center square at a low angle.


• Second, NO FLASH. No flash means, well, no flash (hahaha). If your camera is not working well in the dim light, see the fifth rule.


• Third, SET YOUR CAMERA FUNCTION TO A.V. If your function is set to auto (which it probably is), set it to A.V. On my camera, I simply turn the dial on the top of my camera.


• Fourth, DON’T ZOOM. Don’t zoom is self explanatory; if your subject is too far away, move closer.


• Fifth, SET ISO TO 100. Set ISO to 100 means, if the light is good set the ISO to 100. If the light is dim set the ISO to 200. On my camera to change the ISO I press the ISO button to the right of the view screen and scroll to the ISO I require.


• Sixth, KEEP THE F DOWN ALL THE WAY. That means set the aperture. On my camera this is how I do it: I simply scroll the dial on the back of my camera until the F is at 2.8. And, Bingo.

These are some of the pictures I took.

So that’s what I learned today I hope you’ve found this useful.

ZakGoesSolo Out…PEACE.

day two of my life as a photo journalist

Today I identified my native squirrel as the Sciurus carolinensis, or Eastern Grey Squirrel by examining the photos I took and referring to the World Wide Web.

So when I got pictures of Bucky (below)... I got so close that if I had reached out my hand I could have touched him. That’s probably because I was on my stomach.

Bucky Is Eating His Food.

Bucky Is Looking For his Food.


Bucky Has Found His Food.





Bucky Is Looking At Me.



Bucky Is Looking At My Neighbor.


While I was in my back yard looking for squirrels a cardinal landed on my hand and pecked the rubber on my camera... I couldn't get a photo… bummer...

Oh well, it was fun while it lasted. See you tomorrow

day one of my life as a photo journalist

A couple of weeks ago I decided I wanted to be a photo journalist because I enjoy making videos and taking pictures and want to learn more about it.

I would rather be a photo journalist than a painter or just a photographer because it lets me express myself with art, writing, and photos, (without all the hard work of telling people to “STAY THE C%@P STILL!!!!!!”over and over again as I paint their portrait).

Today I sat down with my education mentor and we talked about what I wanted to do and I explained why I wanted to be a photo journalist and the skills I need and we decided on my first project, SQUIRRELS. I am going to be using this blog to document my SQUIRREL!!!... Project, and my progress learning about photo journalism.

Today was my first day developing my love for photo journalism <3

My plan was to go in my back yard and watch squirrels in their natural habitat, and so that’s what I did. I sat in my back yard watching…(wait for it) NOTHING!!! I didn’t see anything., Nope not one stinking squirrel >=( but I did take pictures of their nests. ->




Later I went to the front yard and actually found some squirrels FINALLY! =)

And finally my education mentor and I down loaded the pix I shot, cropped, and finally I posted them on this blog.