Here are some highlights from my most recent multimedia piece on the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems and their interns. A friend of mine from college, Sebastijan Jemec, introduced me to the Center through his work there. The sustainability initiative was founded in 1975 by Pliny Fisk, and has survived over the years partly because of the strength of their internship program, which brings interns in from a wide variety of educational and geographic backgrounds. The site itself was a great place to photograph, and I was fortunate enough to get to experiment with a Canon 5d Mark II. While I didn't explore its video function, it was a great camera to work with and I loved the quality of images I got from it.
Next weekend I'm headed to New Orleans with a group of 14 other graduate photojournalism students and I'll be pursuing a story there that I will hopefully be able to use for my second project in Web Publishing. I plan to shoot some video and some stills to improve my multimedia skills. Also, it's New Orleans, so it should be an awesome weekend.
The recent project I finished on the Center for Maximum Potential Building Systems made me realize that I love shooting detail shots. I sometimes forget to get in close and shoot those inanimate objects that help advance a multimedia story and provide visual variety. I think these shots from CMPBS almost tell a story in and of themselves; at the very least they set the scene by telling viewers that we're at a site where things are built or repaired, where architectural models are used for planning, and which (through the lawn flamingos and bumper sticker) is at once environmentally conscious and whimsical.
