WEST SIDE STORY IOWA CITY WEST HIGH SCHOOL
2901 MELROSE AVE.
IOWA CITY, IA 52246
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VOLUME 1 ISSUE 1
FEBRUARY 2016
Fun times photos by Claire Lynch
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Pages 4-5: Framing Pages 6-9: Shutter speed, aperture, ISO Pages 10-11: Portraiture Pages 12-13: Lines Pages 14-15: Light Pages 16-17: Perspective Pages 18-21: Free form FOR MORE COVERAGE GO TO WSSPAPER.COM
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top left: Sophie Schenkel 18’ looking at her beautiful reflection framed by the rim of a mirror top right: The red paint around the fire extinguisher frames it wonderfully left: The handicap parking sign was being framed by the window on the door so I snapped a photo 4 FEBRUARY 2016
Framing FEBRUARY 2016 5
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Shutter speed left: Sophie Schenkel 18’ waving so I can blur the motion with a lower shutter speed far left: Sophie Schenkel 18’ jumps for me to get a picture with a faster shutter speed to capture her motion above: Sophie Schenkel ran across the hall and using a lower shutter speed her motion turned out blurred FEBRUARY 2016 7
Aperture above: By using a lower aperture I was able to focus more on the leaf in the front than the rest of the leaves in the background top right: Andie Lynch 16’ poses outside for a picture using a higher aperture to make everything more in focus right: A picture of my sister’s cat with a lower aperture to make the cat more in focus
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top left: George Liu 19’ poses outside for his picture to be taken top right: A close up photo of Eman Elsheikh 18’ smiling at how funny I am left: A classic candid photo of two friends Reagan Hart 18’ and Eman Elsheikh laughing 10 FEBRUARY 2016
Portraiture FEBRUARY 2016 11
Lines above: Sophie Schenkel 18’ stares deeply into the camera as this photo was taken with the line on the table leading right to Sophie right: A dusty vent with lots of horizontal and vertical lines makes for a great lines photo
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top left: I drew a heart in the snow then stood right above it to get this shadow heart picture top right: Sophie Schenkel 18’ stands with half her face in the shadow and half in the sun left: In the hallway leading to the band rooms there was a lot of cool shadows coming from the doors
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Light FEBRUARY 2016 15
top left: I looked right up the pole of an American Flag to get this photo top right: I stood up on a ledge to get this “looking down” photo of Sophie Schenkel 18’ left: I snapped this photo looking down at my feet 16 FEBRUARY 2016
Perspective FEBRUARY 2016 17
Food
above: I coundn’t resist snapping a photo of this pile of bacon
right: The blueberry muffin was still warm when I took this photo
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below: A plate of crackers ready to be paired with cheese was sitting on my counter right: The yellowness of boxed macaroni made this photo very bright
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