"A shoot off of the foot of Liberty's Javier Salome (17) strikes the Cheyenne Mountain defensive wall in the first half of Metro league action at District 20 Stadium in Colorado Springs Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008." Photo by Justin Edmonds, The Gazette
Well as Sarah put it, I started my "big boy job (internship)" at The Gazette on Tuesday morning. I spent the first few hours completing boring, but necessary, paperwork and learning how, where and when to file images. I got a chance to meet nearly all the staffers which was really great. Everyone is really nice and anxious to help me out when I pepper them with silly questions about this and that.
I felt somewhat intimidated at first because for the first time in a while I wasn't the big fish in the little pond, it was exactly the opposite. They can all hold their own and while I'm still very confident in what I can do I was a little nervous about how I would stack up against all their experience. Day one was slow and I didn't end up shooting anything but that was probably good because it gave me a chance to get to know the system and wrap my head around things
I quickly realized that I was of the team when one of the staffers asked me to look at her images and help her pick out the final images that she would file. Mark, who was a little under the weather from his trip to Beijing, told me yesterday that I would find myself as one of the crew but I didn't think that it would happen this quickly. Carol probably didn't think twice about asking me for my opinion but in a very subtile way it helped me relax a bit. I helped he pick a few winners and then finished editing my stuff.
(Rewind a little) I didn't have an assignment for the day so I set off to "hunt" for a standalone feature. I found nothing for the longest time but a fire truck raced past me so I flipped a U-turn and followed them to a scene of a traffic accident. Everyone was ok but the two cars weren't in very good condition. I was playing with the company Nikon D2H's that I got and I have to say that it was a little different shooting something with different gear. I worked the scene (probably too much), got names and then headed back towards the office.
I decided to stay out a little bit longer and I quickly noticed a military style hat up over the ridge while I was driving. I pulled over into the nearest place I could in some random funeral home driveway and walked across the street to the Evergreen cemetery. A small memorial for a WWII veteran was taking place. I made a few images before heading back to the office.
(Now back to the rest of the day) After editing and filing I decided to go shoot a soccer game that Kevin was already assigned to so that I could get some practice. I wasn't off to a good start when I couldn't get my pocket wizards to fire. I wanted to do a goal remote but that got scratched because of the PW situation and I was too lazy to go get my 250 ft spool of hardline out of the trunk. I was a little trigger happy and blasted off nearly 800 images w/o paying attention. It was a pain in the ass to edit down today. I was flustered because I really wanted to show the staff what I can do and I didn't think enough to just shoot. I only filed three frames since it wasn't my assignment and I wasn't really pleased with anything in particular.
Today was a little different as I had my first assignment. I had to shoot a mechanic who received the Tech of the Year award after fixing a family's car for a Make-a Wish child. I thought it would be another lame grip and grin but when his co-workers busted out the silly string I was happy because it mad for a nice image.
The benadryl that I took is kicking in and I can barely type this because it's knocking me out. I'll talk about my place, my new city and the paper more soon.
JCE
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