WESTSIDESTORY IOWA CITY WEST HIGH SCHOOL
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VOLUME 44 ISSUE 1
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Pages 4-5: Framing Pages 6-9: Shutter speed, aperture, ISO Pages 10-11: Portraiture Pages 12-13: Lines Pages 14-17: Light Pages 18-19: Perspective Pages 20-23: Free form FOR MORE COVERAGE GO TO WSSPAPER.COM
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Bottom left: The door to the outside temporaries as seen from between two wooden legs of a ramp. I ignored this photo for a long time, planning not to use it in the porfolio. Still, the tight fitting rectangles turned out to be the better of the crop. Voila. Top right: As a car strolls through the downtown Iowa streets, it passes between two parking meters. Because the two meters were connected by a U-shaped metal bar, it was a great manmade frame. Top left: Enjoying frozen yogurt at Yotopia; a relaxing break after scouring downtown Iowa City for photo opportunities. Honestly, I haven’t gone downtown (or left my house, for that matter) in a pretty long time. As it turns out, I should adventure here more often, or at least visit Yotopia once in a while.
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Top right: An orange sits on an air vent just inside of the West High courtyard doors. Turns out, it’s pretty normal to leave food around the building, as I found another orange outside in the snow. Top left: Prateek Raikwar ’18 stands outside in the West High courtyard. A fan of soccer and the outdoors, Raikwar’s grey-andyellow shoes add character to the bleak winter weather. Bottom left: Paint dries on the edges of the sink in the Scene Shop. Colors line the insides and outsides of the sink and even the floor.
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shutter speed Top: Catherine Ju ’18 jumps into the air in a West High stairwell. Although it was difficult to capture this split-second moment in the air, I finally snapped this picture after 10 minutes and a high shutter speed. While a bit uncomfortable with her facial expression, she finally let me use this picture for the portfolio. Bottom: Ned Furlong ’17 plays Rachmaninoff on the piano in the band room of West High. Being my first time with the low shutter speed function, this shot was an absolute miracle. showing the difficult octave jumps in the music. FEBRUARY 2015 9
Portraiture Left: Wingel Xue ’18 eats chocolate frozen yogurt at Yotopia downtown, coughing from the cold of the weather and of the yogurt. Tasty shivering! Right: Shawn Thacker ’18 notices that is shoes are untied while nearing the downtown residential neighborhoods. He takes his time on the sidewalk to tie his blue laces.
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Left: A shot of the back parking lot of West High as seen through a window. The cars and the patches of newly fallen snow emphasized the curves of the sidewalk and pavement. Right: The lens cap of the camera sits on the benches outside. Taken on the warmest day of the week, the snow melts under and around the benches. This photo was actually a stroke of pure luck; while originally just a shot of the benches, the lens-cap took the opportunity to photobomb the picture.
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Pages 16-17: My personal favorite photo taken at West High School, this wide beam of light looked like a crisp stage spotlight. The grainlike surface of the wall and the high contrast between black and white were two inspirations for my choice of free form photos. Pages 18-19: Although my last addition to the porfolio, this light photo is certainly not the least valuable one. While many of my pictures focus on the harsh contrasts of light, this photo was unique in that it showed how light can illuminate a room.
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Top left: “Allegro Spiritoso”, originally a piece for the cello, is amazingly difficult on the trumpet and requires a lot of practice. Even though I spend hours a day seeing my instrument from this angle, the audience’s view of a short-lived performance is much different. This disparity of perspective was my inspiration for this photo. Bottom: Yellow paint mistakenly sits in the middle of the road, drying as time passes. While I enjoyed taking pictures from a worm’s-eye-view, curling in a ball on the ground and snapping photos turned out to be extremely unsanitary.
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Top right: While summer camps are fun, the application process for PROMYS takes hours and hours of proof writing. This is the problem-solver’s point of view of a difficult math problem.
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Free form Although I personally enjoy these free form photos, I can’t say that there was any particular artistic inspiration behind them; they came entirely from experimentation. Taking pictures of the windows and the blinds in my house, I found that light showed the depth of each object and made them look very different. In this case, light changed the appearance of my hands, highlighting an intricate web of wrinkles.
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Left: Going with the theme of light, this is a picture of a electric candle burner. Without the light, this hollow, ellipsoid shape is embroidered with flowers leaves. The light comes from a burner in the interior and escapes through leaf-shaped holes on the sides. Bottom: My sister is an avid cello player. Having played for eleven years, she is beyond phenomenal when conveying emotion through her music. Her current piece, Meditation Hebraique, has a very dark and heavy melody with only a small major portion in the middle. My motivation behind this picture was this minor mood behind the piece; complete darkness and uncertainty in the hands, but a small light as a guide through the music.
Next page: A photo of a chair in a dark room, illuminated by light from the windows. A (maybe-not-so) interesting fact: this chair is my favorite chair. Whether I’m doing my homework, reading, or just sitting for a bit, it’s my go-to chair. Still, chairs are pushed in and sat in and often ignored. Maybe this was my opportunity to study some common household objects. Or maybe, just maybe, I’m getting worse at writing captions.
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