Nico's photojournalism blog

It was culture night at Linn Benton Community College and at the center of the venue, was a world map where anyone could go and put a pin marking where they are from, as well as where they want to travel. It was really quite interesting, an event that was celebrating various cultures with food, art and dance had in the middle a map that can give people an idea of how diverse the event was. It was really cool to see how many people of all different backgrounds and interests coming together at our school.

Victor Zevallos is the owner and founder of Llama movers, the number one ranked moving company in Corvallis. Victor is  an incredibly hard working person who fathers two children, runs his own company constantly responding to customers at all hours of the day. Victor wants to change the image of movers by making it an honest, fair and family based Peruvian company. Peru is home for Victor, even though he’s far from it he still takes pride in where he comes from. Llama movers is a term inspired by Llamas that live in Peru, but he also used the red and white native colors of Peru. After each job, he gives his customers a bottle opener that has a Peruvian Llama on it. Victor takes pride in his work, and works incredibly hard. He plans to expand the company into providing cleaning, painting and other services to people. His goal is to help people as much as he can.

Richard Avedon is an American photographer who grew up in a Jewish-Russian family that immigrated to the United States and lived in New York. He first began photography at the age of twelve, started shooting for the young Hebrew men association and his mother facilitated his interest while running her own dress manufacturing business. His mother Anna, helped allow him become interested in fashion and photography as he went on the combine his interests by shooting for various fashion magazines. While his mother encouraged his interests, his father was much more strict and instilled values that money, educations and maintaining physical health are vital to living a full life. During his career, he influenced American fashion immensely, but also took very many socially meaningful portraits of napalm victims during the Vietnam war, capturing the harm that the war caused not only on victims living in Vietnam, but also the emotional damage it did to American people in terms of losing trust i...

I want to photograph Eugene mostly because it is different from what most people in the class are doing. I also think it will be nice because I plan on moving to Eugene for school, so I think it will give me a good opportunity to get familiar with the city. For landmark I could do the art gallery at University of Oregon. The portrait subject I would like to do either the coach Northwest Christian basketball team or a player for the team. I think the biggest challenge will be the art gallery, the doors of the building are a work of art themselves and I want to capture the details of it all.

For my action shot is going to be volleyball players training for a sand volleyball tournament that is coming up. The school has nice sand volleyball courts on campus so preferably when they have practice and the weather is nice. I am really worried that i will have a nice angle, lighting and picture but that i won't be able to capture it as clearly as I want to. I'll try various settings on the camera to try and get it right. For the overall I want to get a shot of the entire game, while the medium I want to get one person being the focus but also have the other players in the background. For my closeup I want to get a shot of somebody hitting the ball or approaching a spike because I feel that is the slam dunk or home run equivalent but in volleyball.

I liked Jameel's photo here because it really did a great job o capturing what she does for work, but also because shes posing for the shot that it is a pleasing photo to look at. Also I think some of the objects near her help me understand what she does, like the tapes on the table next to her.