PHOTOJOURNALISM

When I first joined yearbook, I underestimated my writing abilities and was set on being a photographer. Although I ended up as predominantly a writer, I still bring my camera to events on which I am reporting. I love taking photos for my own spread to make the work more of my own. The extent of my editing on these pictures reaches to lighting fixes, blurring and cropping. I generally aim to photograph without the intent of editing in my mind, but I learned Photoshop to have the photo editing skills on hand when necessary.

Published in Vespa Yearbook - 2014. The weekend before deadline, an editor of a different section didn't have a dominant photo on her spread so I followed a group of friends downtown and photographed their day.

Published in Vespa Yearbook - 2014. This was the first year of the outdoor festival my school held, with the main attraction being human-sized hamster balls. This shot offers a natural frame for the subject.

Published in Vespa Yearbook - 2015. As an Outdoor Club member, I toted my heavy DSLR on a hike to capture nature shots.

Published in Vespa Yearbook - 2014. You don't know what awkward is until you're lying on the ground of a football field in the middle of a huddle taking pictures and getting turf in places turf should not be.

Published in Vespa Yearbook - 2014. I shot this photo at my first ever high school football game. I learned the rule-of-thirds and the importance of reaction photography in this photo with a simple point-and-shoot camera.

Published in Vespa Yearbook - 2014. I found the perfect framing opportunity while in the library.

Unpublished. Again, I had to work with the shoddy lighting of our school's auditorium and produced an artistic shot not commonly found in journalism photography.

Published in Vespa Yearbook Supplement - 2014 and Vespa Yearbook 2015. The motion of this picture emanates from the tip of her shoelace to the swoosh of her ponytail.

Published in Vespa Yearbook - 2015. I shot this tender moment right after a varsity football player asked the football manager to Homecoming.

Published on Vespa Yearbook Twitter - 2014. I caught this rare moment on camera, as the head coach of varsity football was not known for smiling.

Published in Vespa Yearbook - 2014. For a sports spread, I wanted to try a unique angle and took the perspective of a rival hockey player by shooting from inside a hockey mask.

Published in Vespa Yearbook - 2014. I captured this tender moment between friends as they donated blood together from a bird's-eye view to fully capture the context of the situation. Little does this picture show, I got kicked out minutes later for standing on a chair.

Published in Vespa Yearbook Supplement - 2014. The Variety Show at my school posed a difficult task, as I had rarely shot in such challenging lighting conditions.

Published in Vespa Yearbook - 2015. This year was rough on the teachers in my school district because of a near-strike, but itprovided golden opportunities for us student journalists.

Published in Vespa Yearbook - 2014. This close-up, intimate shot of a student intensely focused on a Biology lab provided the perfect environment for an impromptu photoshoot for the Academics divider.

Unpublished - 2014 at Heartspeak Conference. I included this photo because it was one of many from my first freelance photography jobs. I photographed a marriage counseling workshop that taught me a few tips for later down the road.

Published in Vespa Yearbook - 2015. Because students were not allowed to photograph the fall musical, I visited the dressing room and hour before show-time and captured the amount of preparation required before call time.

Published in Vespa Yearbook - 2015. This picture defines our generation in our word: SELFIE.

Unpublished - 2014 Evanston, IL Fourth of July Parade. This is one of the photos while I took at the Northwestern Medill-Cherubs camp. It was chosen in a showcase to the students during a photography lesson.

Published in Vespa Yearbook - 2015. Cheerleading performance during half-time of the varsity football game. The open black sky offered a unique opportunity to make the photo a background photo on the spread.

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