Sub!

I have a good friend here that is a teacher at a beautiful private art school here in Idaho. The school has only about 100 high school students, and the classes range from music, to dance, to photography, and even your general science, math, and english classes. It's an INCREDIBLE environment. I felt surrounded by gifted and amazing individuals.

Well my friend David asked me to substitute teach for him since he was going to be out of town for a wedding, and I was SUPER excited at the opportunity. Amongst some of his classes were two photography classes. We had an absolute blast (at least I think so). David wanted me to show the students a bit of my work and talk about why I wanted to be a photographer. I also thought it would be a great learning experience to bring in all my gear and do a sample photo shoot of one of the kids right there in the classroom, then run it through photoshop for the final edits...So kind of a beginning to end type of thing. Here are two of the students from different classes that "volunteered" (some needed a little persuasion) to be the models for the photos. And they both did amazing!

Both photos were taken inside the classroom with the lights off, and the blinds mostly shut. I shot with my flash through an umbrella. Some of the students asked about texture overlays, so here you see our experimenting with textures over the portraits.

It was honestly an amazing experience. I go back tomorrow (Monday) for my last day. Sad. But hopefully I'll be able to sub in the future. I was so inspired by these students. They all have some amazing work, and have an incredible eye for photography. Much of their work lined the walls of the room, and it was incredibly inspiring to see such great work from such young students.