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Isabella Ocasio and Rosie Camp get flowers together to sell to students as their sorority raises money for breast cancer awareness outside the Bovee University Center on the campus of Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan on Wednesday, March 25, 2026. Isabella Ocasio arranges flowers for a student at her sorority's flower sale outside the Bovee University Center on the campus of Central Michigan University in Mt. Pleasant, Michigan on Wednesday, March 25, 2026

The Baja S.A.E. Racing club is an on campus club at Central Michigan University that builds and races off roading vehicles against other college teams. Ethan Williams is the President of the section at CMU, he talks about what they do in the club. He also shares some issues they’ve had in the past year, whether that be during a competition or during the building process. The team came together and solved every issue quickly and was able to continue competing or working despit

For this assignment, Clayton and I went to the Biosciences building because we wanted to use some of the greenery they have in there. We also wanted to have a good variety of options for our background of the photos. I tried a few time to get the greenery to blur in the background but my aperture wouldnt Igo low enough for that. I used my Canon 80D to get these photos. This is the camera I use for almost all of my photo assignments. I also have a Canon T7, but the 80D is my g

Joshua Weger shares his experience and roles within the Baja SAE Racing Club at Central Michigan university. He also shares how he got into cars and how he would go about certain things differently.

Charlize Brochu is a Fashion Design major at Central Michigan University. She has been interested in fashion her whole life, whether it was wigs, outfits, hairstyles, or makeup. In her youth, Brochu went to schools that required her to wear uniforms. But, once she got into high school and beyond, she was able to wear whatever she liked. This led to Brochu finding a love for the 60s and 70s style clothing. She complains that her closet and dressers at school are not nearly lar

Central Michigan University sophomore, Ethan Wallace, shared his favorite hobby of writing in this classmate interview on Thursday, February 12, 2026.

On Thursday, February 12, 2026, I got to practice my interview skills with Ethan Wallace. We talked about his favorite hobby, which is writing.

It’s important to note that if your audience is confused at all during your video, they will become bored. A bored audience is not a good audience, and you need to make sure that your audience is engaged and not confused for the entirety of your video. The book explains that you basically need to pretend that your audience is full of not so smart people, and they need everything to be very clear in your video. Your audience should be able to infer things about the video, but

The first thing in this part of the reading that really stood out to me was that shooting people rather than scenery is very important. Stockman mentions how you need to think about what you would want to watch or look back on. I think this is a very important thing to remember because, as he says in the beginning of the book, if you wouldn’t want to watch it then you can’t expect others to willingly watch it. So, I think I will try to apply this thought into my projects for

Hey there, my name's Gia Biagioni and I am in my second year here at Central Michigan University . I am a Photojournalism student also pursuing a minor in Entrepreneurship. I have always loved taking photos whether its of the sky, my family, my pets, or even just the land around me. My favorite thing to do in my free time is to read, I got a few new series over winter break that I look forward to getting around to. I have two cats, Wendy and Loki, and I always miss them so m

Knowing how to focus your shots and pick what you want to shoot is very important when it comes to thinking about your video and what you want from it. He mentioned thinking ahead about the things you want to shoot and exactly what shots you want to get. Stockman brings up the example of knowing and videoing moments in a wedding, how he had to think about what would be happening next and what people would want in the video. By doing so, he said that he was able to get a fairl

The biggest part of this portion of the book that stood out to me was that you need to be able to adjust to your location and absolutely KNOW your plans for a video. Stockman talks about a lot of different examples of filming ideas so there’s not a ton of helpful information in this part to me because of it mostly being examples. However, adjusting and knowing everything beforehand stood out a lot. While I did find some of his examples to make this an easier read and think th

At the beginning of this reading, we learn about kind of the rules of video production. A couple of these rules that stick out to me were moving around and keeping things short. With moving around, I found it helpful to think about how my mind works. I thought about how my eyes wander all over the place and gather a lot of information about where I am, and I think it’s important to incorporate that into videos. I feel like a lot of people are the same way in having their eyes

While doing the sportraits I would say that I feel like I leaned on pinterest a lot for pose inspo. I am however very happy with how the photos turned out, especially for the field hockey ones. I do think that I probably could have done better with the equestrian team photos, but having the black background and so many different black things was definitely very difficult to deal with while making everything still pop. We originally wanted to try and get photos of sports that

Doing the in class “sportraits” was a very fun experience. I decided to play around with the gels a little bit and really like how it turned out. I don’t think that I’ve been this happy with my results yet this year. In doing this in class experience, I feel like I can tell just how much I’ve grown in my abilities. Everything with this assignment just came a lot easier and quicker to me. Everything from the lighting settings to the posing. I definitely think there’s still a l

Doing the fashion assignment was definitely an adventure. We had our two models scheduled and we were going to do them on the same day… then one of them got sick. Unfortunate. But we were able to reschedule and get them done anyways. This project was a big learning experience in the use of lighting equipment outdoors in a natural setting. I will say it was a little difficult for me at first to even be able to tell that the lighting was providing the main source of light. I th

Doing this Portable Studio portrait, I wanted to have a more interesting subject instead of just a basic person standing in the frame. I thought that taking photos of the CMU Police Department could be interesting for this project. I actually enjoyed my time doing this project with the police department, however I did get a bit concerned about the fact that they said the photos couldn’t be anywhere public. Setting up the backdrop and lighting was a bit difficult given the amo

For the in-class fashion assignment, I feel like I definitely struggled because some of the outfits that our model brought weren’t exactly what I was feeling. I was a little dissatisfied with these outfits, but we made it work. I think that what we were able to come up with was a doable outfit, however, thinking back I feel like I could have come up with something better in terms of outfits with the clothes he brought. I struggled a bit with the lighting as well, at first it

Doing this assignment in class was definitely a learning experience. I photographed Jasmine in her gymnastics leotard. At first, I had the strobe lights at way too high of a power and had to adjust them a few times to get it just right. For the medium and tight shots, I used the gold reflector to add some color into her face. Trying to come up with what poses I wanted her to do was probably one of the hardest parts of doing this assignment in class, but the group that I worke

In these last few pages of “The Hot Shoe Diaries” by Joe McNally, he shared only a couple shoots that he did. One of these shoots included a muscular man posing with this really nice light coming from behind him. The other shoot was with firetrucks from a station that McNally had said he saw or worked with during 9/11. He also shared the different difficulties faced during these photoshoots as well as how he dealt with and fixed them. I think that the way McNally perseveres a