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Student Union
Student Union - Richard Meade
Jay McCabe  |  Dec 01, 2006

Richard Meade
The Art Institute Of Atlanta
Atlanta, Georgia

The Beauty Part

From the photos it's easy to tell that Richard, who is in the final year of the Institute's three-year bachelor of fine arts program, hopes to work in fashion and advertising. "I enjoy working with people," he says, "and would...

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Pro Techniques
David Doubilet; The Take
Jay McCabe  |  Nov 01, 2006

"Photographers may believe in certain pictures, but they have to have the educated eye of the picture editor."

"We're actually looking at film," David Doubilet says. He's at the offices of National Geographic magazine, going over the take from a recent two-month assignment in the South Pacific. The job was shot with both film and...

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Student Union - Andrew Mo
Jay McCabe  |  Sep 01, 2006

Andrew Mo
University Of California
At San Diego

Days At The Races

Andrew, a senior at the university, is an electrical engineering major. He qualifies for this column because he is taking a photography course. It is, however, his first and only photography course: a portfolio class that's open only to seniors with majors or...

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Pro Techniques
Pro Talk; Mike Colon
Jay McCabe  |  Sep 01, 2006

"None of my sample albums have family formal shots. I intentionally leave them out because they're not what I specialize in."

"A lot of it comes down to your client's expectations before the wedding," Mike Colon says of his relationship to the bride and groom. "You have to talk about what they're really expecting, what...

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Student Union - Will Newman
Jay McCabe  |  Aug 01, 2006

Will Newman
Carolina Day School
Asheville, North Carolina

Good Start

Will is the youngest photographer we've featured on this page--he's 11, and in the fifth grade at Carolina Day School. "When I was about 2 years old," Will says, "my mom put a camera in my hands and said, `Shoot.' But...

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Student Union - Sarah Amato
Jay McCabe  |  Jul 01, 2006

Sarah Amato
Ohio University
Athens, Ohio

Face Value
A commercial photography student at Ohio University's School of Visual Communication, Sarah's interest in photography grew from her high school experiences. Her school didn't have many photo courses, but she took them all and made them pay off, winning a Gold Key award...

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Sports/Action
Bill Sallaz; Keep It Real
Jay McCabe  |  Jul 01, 2006

"As they go through their routines, I see the shot. I want to see the moment so I'll know it's coming."

You'd think it would be Rule Number One: when the stock shot is a sports image, you get players, not models. Always shoot the folks who know how to play the game. But you'd be surprised how many times we've talked to sports...

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Student Union - Joe Morahan
Jay McCabe  |  May 01, 2006

Joe Morahan
Brooks Institute Of Photography
Santa Barbara, California

Kick Start
Joe Morahan graduated from Brooks in December, 2005, with a degree in industrial photography. Currently working as an assistant photographer for the bodybuilding publication Iron Man, his long-term goal is free-lance advertising photography for sports...

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Pro Techniques
Pro Talk; David Alan Harvey
Jay McCabe  |  May 01, 2006

He figured he'd be one of the last of the holdouts. "When the whole digital revolution started, I thought I'd be the last guy to be shooting digital," David Alan Harvey says. Then along came an offer he didn't want to refuse. "Nikon was working on an ad campaign for their D100, and they asked me if I'd go down to Mexico and shoot with the...

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Student Union - Jessyel Ty Gonzalez
Jay McCabe  |  Apr 01, 2006

Jessyel Ty Gonzalez
University Of Colorado
Boulder, Colorado

 

Vérité

Jessyel came to still photography through his film studies at the University, and although he says photography will always be a part of what he does, filmmaking is still his ultimate goal.

The photographs here are from his photoblog at

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