A Product of Patience and Persistence

Welcome back to the Post Photography Blog! Our first post back is from senior Post picture editor Dustin Lennert. Currently Dustin is working on personal projects and freelancing in his hometown of Sardinia, Ohio for the summer.

“My favorite kinds of photographs have always been beautiful scenic shots and landscapes. The power of an amazing landscape can make a person want to stop what they are doing and be in that scene. I’ve never lived in the exotic places people see in National Geographic but I know that what draws most people to those photographs is the amazing light and that’s what I try and capture in my photographs.

I’m always waiting, paying attention to the weather and the light, going out at the end of the day, wherever I am, to try to make the best photograph I can in the short window of light just before and after sunset. And I find that horrible weather always makes for a good photo because when light breaks through the clouds it’s always very directional and moody and most often it leads to a good photograph, like the one above.

The photography I do most of the time is all about patience and persistence. As long as I pay attention to the weather and keep going out everyday my odds of making a successful photograph are good. These photos are examples of my patience paying off so far this summer.”

Keep track of Dustin Lennert’s photography at:

Instagram: mrl33

Blog: www.dustinlennertphotography.wordpress.com

For more photos and prints: www.dustinlennertphotography.zenfolio.com

Keep following us over the summer to see more Post photography.

Theme: Spring

It’s a little later in the quarter than we wanted to start the blog up again, but alas we are back! Here’s the Post staff photographers take on spring. Enjoy!

March Madness: Enter for a chance to win one of these framed shots

For the second time in three years the Ohio Bobcats have made it to the NCAA Tournament.

Who can forget the memorable pictures from Ohio’s remarkable upset of the Georgetown Hoyas the last time the team went dancing? This time around, the Bobcats take on Michigan in the first round, in what is sure to be an exciting matchup.

And since our staff will be busy procrastinating studying for Winter Quarter finals by filling our March Madness brackets, we figured we might as well open our league up to everyone.

Now why would you enter a bracket pool with us? Well, because if you can pick ‘em the best there’s a little Bobcat swag in it for you. The winner of our pool gets to chose from our Bobcat basketball photos and we’ll frame an 11×14 for you.

Want a look at some of the shots that could be hanging in your dorm room? (Bracket rules below the gallery).

There are two ways to play:

1. Enter your bracket online at http://bit.ly/ylNJDt (Password: bobcatnation)
2. Physical brackets can be sent to posteditorial.ohiou.edu or dropped off at The Post (Baker 325) but MUST be received by NOON, Thursday, March 15.
SCORING:
First-round games worth 2 points, with points doubling each round

Here’s the official 2012 The Post March Madness Challenge bracket:

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Jason Chow: Quad Rugby

Post Photographer Jason Chow takes his camera indoors to photograph the fifth annual FourPlay! Quad Rugby Tournament. The proceeds from the game are used to help buy special wheelchairs that cost 4,000 dollars each. The Tournament game raised over 6,000 dollars, for the Ohio Buckeye Blitz. To read more check out the article online here:

http://thepost.ohiou.edu/content/rugby-tournament-raises-more-6000

 

It’s Not the Camera, It’s the Photographer

Since digital photography became available to the masses, camera companies have always made consumers believe that the more mega pixels a camera has, the better the camera. As photographers carrying around large Dslrs all day, we tend to get a lot of people who says, “That’s a big camera. I bet it takes nice photos.” And that’s what a lot of people are led to believe, but megapixels have nothing to do with what makes a great photo.

So for this week the Post photographers collected up images they’ve made when they didn’t have their Dslrs on them, but came across a scene or moment that caught their eye so they used what they had: their phone or pocket camera.

As you’ll see from the images below, it’s not about the camera, it’s about the photographer. Knowing, from experience, how to see light, color and shape in any given scene and composing these elements in the frame in a pleasing way while waiting for a moment – that’s what photography is all about. It’s a dance between you and the world. The photographer moves in a scene until they subtract and arrange things in their frame to where it pleases the eye and then they wait paitently for that perfect moment to click the shutter.

Check out some of the photos our photographers made with their phones and point&shoot cameras below:

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Aiding Athens: HAVAR

This is the fifth and final installment of our Aiding Athens multimedia series. Post photographers Katharine Egli and Brien Vincent documented the story of HAVAR, a nonprofit support group that provides aid to developmentally disabled people. Building Bridges Adult Center, an affiliate of HAVAR, offers its consumers a place to cook, paint, sing and hang out with other members of their community all while working on skill development.

HAVAR home aid offers much the same along the lines of skill development. Residential aides like Sherri Bail help consumers learn basic life skills like how to do laundry, when and how to take certain medicines and how to balance their budget.

To learn more about HAVAR and how it helps members of our community click on the link below to see the article by Stefan Malmsten:

 http://thepost.ohiou.edu/content/place-grow

Here is the link to our final Aiding Athens Multimedia piece produced by Katharine Egli, along with other photos from the project by Brien Vincent and Katharine Egli:

http://thepost.ohiou.edu/content/aiding-athens-havar

Aiding Athens: Nelsonville Community Center

This is the fourth installment of our five-part series called Aiding Athens. Post staff photographers Sam Owens and Brien Vincent went out to photograph the story of the Nelsonville Community Center, a place where community members can come and socialize, get a free meal and also a helping hand because of the hard work and purpose of the center’s director, Rhonda Bentley, and everyone who makes the center a place for those who need it most.

Check out the photos taken for this project below and see multimedia piece by the Post Multimedia Editor Erin Corneliussen:

http://thepost.ohiou.edu/content/aiding-athens-nelsonville-community-center

Article by Ryan Clark:

http://thepost.ohiou.edu/content/aiding-athens-nelsonville-community-center