westsidestory IOWA CITY WEST HIGH SCHOOL
2901 MELROSE AVE.
IOWA CITY, IA 52246
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FEBRUARY 2016
Winter Days photos by Jenna Zeng
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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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FRAMING Below: My mom and I decided to bundle up and brave the cold on an extremely cold day to go outside to our backyard and examine our newly built porch. Right: Jessica Doyle ’19 tries to be sneaky and take a photo of me.
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Top right: A truck zooms by late at night on Highway 218 near my house. Top Left: Jessica Doyle ’19 jumps for joy when she finds out that swim practice has been cancelled. Left: Allie Schmitt-Morris ’19 demonstrates her three years of gymnastics training by doing a cartwheel.
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Shutter Speed
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Aperture and ISO Above: The full moon lights up the dark night in the backyard of my new house. Top left: The once beautiful flowers are slowly dying in the frigid Iowa winter. Bottom left: The wheat-looking grass seems to be surviving the cold weather pretty well.
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Portraiture Left: Pareen Mhatre ’18 in her natural habitat taking photos downtown on a freezing winter day. Above: Jessica Doyle ’19 looking happy as someone behind the camera tells a hilarious joke.
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Lines
Right: Jessica Doyle ’19 looking solemn on a gloomy day as she thinks about upcoming tests and quizzes. Below: Madeleine Roberts-Ganim ’19 stops for a picture as on the bridge while going for a walk on a brisk January afternoon.
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Light
Above: Jessica Doyle looks at her distorted shadow as she walks up the stairs to go into the school building. Top left: A candle flickers and lights up my dim bedroom, and makes my room feel cozy. Bottom left: Kristina Rosebrook poses for a portrait shot, but the shadow of the flagpole messes it up. FEBRUARY 2016 15
Perspective Above: Kara Wagenknecht ’19 inspecting the school’s dirty windows. Left: The American flag billowing in the wind on a beautiful sunny day in the middle of January. Right: Madeleine Roberts-Ganim ’19 poses for a close up during a walk in the park.
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Free Form An Afternoon at the Park Left: A beautiful plant on the edge of the snow covered frozen pond. Right: Madeleine Roberts-Ganim ’19 stops on the bridge in Hunter’s Run Park and ponders the meaning of life. 18 FEBRUARY 2016
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Below: Madeleine Roberts-Ganim ’19 shows her love for nature and poses with a tree. Right: Madeleine Roberts-Ganim looking really dramatic and walking away from all her fears.
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