Pictures Update!

Hello everyone!

Thanks for your patience in getting more pictures out. We had to hit the ground running when we came home this weekend (probably much like everyone else here!). I just wanted to post one last reminder that when I add photos they are added to this online gallery:

 http://dwayneandaimee.pass.us/advanced-storytelling/

And this online Dropbox:

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qyo60e3ba6tdg99/AAAknWFTNDTfhO5Hv-Uy3_Wva?dl=0

Why two places? Well, the gallery just lets you look at all of the pictures fairly quickly. The Dropbox is actually where you should download your high resolution files from.

Right now everyone in class has 2 photos edited (some have 3) from the in-class storytelling. And everyone that came out for the after class pictures has at least 10. The online gallery is up to date and the Dropbox now has all of the pictures that the online gallery has.

This is how I am going to proceed in editing now that I have these out. I'm first going back through the after-class storytelling pictures to finish editing the best of those. That's for 6 people so I'm just going to finish them one person at a time and if you'd like an e-mail when yours is done please e-mail me to let me know. atrawi@gmail.com is the best e-mail to reach me at.

In the meantime, I'll offer this for the in-class pictures. I am looking for a few things when I'm taking pictures of you storytelling to a group. I am looking for the quality of light in the room. I am looking for the best place to take the pictures. But I am also looking to not make a scene and to be very quiet and selective with when I choose to move or if I choose to move. So when I'm going through to find my favorites I am thinking - Does this picture at all look dynamic or interesting? How does the audience look (if they are in the picture?) Are you making eye contact in an interesting way to someone in the audience? Is the photo flattering? Does the photo's composition look interesting enough?

For all or most of these ideals to be met in a moment, when we're working with limited time, it's kind of an amazing thing to me. Which means it's usually only a few pictures out of each batch of a live performance that I end up really liking or wanting to edit. On the flip side of that, I can understand that you might have a different opinion and would like to see your pictures to pick them out for yourself.

So if you want to make sure that you get to pick which photos I edit for you for the in-class pictures, please e-mail me at atrawi@gmail.com and I will set up a private gallery that you can go through, log into the gallery, and select your favorites. I will be able to see which ones you selected as favorites, and when I finish editing the after class pictures I will go through and edit my favorites as well as your favorites of the in-class pictures. Please be reasonable since I do take many pictures on the off chance hoping to catch something that I might not have seen. If something looks like it might become a good moment to take a picture, I will go ahead and take it. So I end up with lots of pictures that are  either intentional and I like them, or unintentional happy surprises or sometimes unintentionally not so good pictures. If you say you want all of them I will be veeeeeery skeptical that you like all of them. :) And they do take a while to edit! So it is silly for me to edit a photo that you do not want. That is all that I ask, please be selective when picking favorites if you go this route. It doesn't bother me if you want to see all of your pictures. It will be a while before I can get to them since I have many of the after-class pictures to go through first. So if you want to see them while I'm working on the others, I can arrange that.



So thanks again for your patience and that is my very long message to tell you all where I am at with everything. Thanks again for everything and please e-mail me at atrawi@gmail.com if you would like me to e-mail you with updates when I have finished more of your pictures. Also, if you need a photo print release for any reason (it doesn't always come up but if it does, just e-mail me and I'd be happy to send you one) just let me know. Otherwise this will be my last photo-related post to this particular blog. Thanks for reading my post and thanks for a great class!