November 2009 – Page 3 – Cooper Ricketts Photography Blog

Worth The Wait!!!!

Today I go my student loan money so after I finish my photojournalism work I will be heading to showcase in Atlanta to pick up some gear. I have been waiting a long time to get this money so I am excited to go and be able to get some new equipment.

Newsweek’s Top Photo Editor Leaving

I found this article on PDN.com I am not a huge reader of Newsweek I like Time and Life better, but I still thought that this was interesting.Director of Photography Simon Barnett has been at Newsweek for nine years. Three other photo staff have been laid off. Newsweek has been hit hard by aContinue reading “Newsweek’s Top Photo Editor Leaving”

Canon Eos 1D Mark IV preview

This is a preview of Canons newest por grade camera, This camera is an amazing peace of technoligey it can shoot at 10 fps and has a high iso rating from 50-102,000 and on top of that it does video to find out more about this camera go to Canon.com

Free Show at Scad

My teacher Mr.Jones told me today about a free show at Scad 1600 Peachtree St Atlanta Ga. So I am thinking about going to the art show at Scad tonight, the show starts at 7 and goes till 9 it should be interesting and theres free food.

Canon Rebate for lenses.

Canon is giving rebates on their lens right now until early January they are giving 80 to 100 dollars off on select Canon lenses, go to B&H Photo to see what lenses are in the qualification.

Fill Flash or Environmental Portrait

This past weekend I shot for a photojournalism assignment, I might have ended up with a good picture I still have to show Ms.Finch the contact sheet

I did a interview.

For Mr.Jones class we all had to interview each other here is Willam Twitty interviewing myself, the interview covers thing going on in the GTC photography department.To find it click the link

Jay Westcott

Jay Westcott is a photojournalist whose work is I think is interesting I like the way he composes his subjects he has a website if you would like to see other images of his click here he also has a blog.

Fill Flash Technique.

This is a short video on a basic way to use your flash during the day I figured since we have a assignment on this that this video might be helpful to some pf my fellow classmates. To see other videos from Michel Andrews click here

Fashion,Fantasy,Glamour

This is one of the many pictures I took of Deanna Washington who is a fellow photographer at Gwinnett Teach, I took this picture for a fantasy and glamour assignment I still need to show Mrs.Harkins my contact sheets hopefully she will like what I have.