I got published!!

[Joezilla]

Ok, Ok. It is a small base newspaper, and it was an article on our ship and I was the only one with a camera, but one of my pictures made the front page!! It was a terrible, spur of the moment shot but the base newspaper needed coverage of the event and I wasa able to provide the photo. What an inspiring feeling!!

[Silky]

Hey, that's great!! Any chance that we'll get to see a copy of the front page? :)

[Joezilla]

Here is the linky link to the site.

http://pub.mayportmirror.com/Sections.aspx?sec=15818

Looks even worse on the web. But it is mine!!

[Silky]

Woohoo! You even got your name right there under the photo...which is NOT a bad photo at all! It's great!! Way to go!

[ldg40]

Oooohhh! How exciting! Tell me Joezilla, is there anything more wonderful than seeing your work in actual real-live print?? I think not! :)

A super huge congrats to you! I hope that this just the first of many more "Front Pages" for you!

[Jaygre]

That is just great Jozilla - what a way to start, and gooooooooo! It's so nice to be in the company of famous people :) Congrats!

Joanie

[Joezilla]

Oh, im not famous. The paper usually sits on driveways and crumbles. I love the fact that something that I did turned into entertainment for others. To me that is what photography is all about. I take pictures looking for that 'oooooh!' reaction. I am a long way from consistently getting that expression, but I learn something new everyday. I cannot ask for more than that. Maybe by the time I retire I will have enough 'oooh!' photos to not have to find another job.

[Chris49]

Nice job Joe. Sounds like a grate a grate amount of fun, maybe they will want you to do some more for them in the future :)

[Newby]

Congrats JZ that is great news. Keep it up :bigparty:

[123456789]

:bigparty: :toast:

[Dave]

Does that make you a pro photographer? :)

But not quite a paparazzi though :p

Well done Joe!

[Joezilla]

Thanks everyone. I knew you all would understand how special this is to me. As far as pro, no way. But I am getting frequent requests from my ship to do more, so who knows? We go on deployment soon and I cannot tell you how excited I am to start shooting around the world. I plan on creating some type of digital scrapbook along the way. Free travel plus room and board along the way!

[Dave]

A photo journal of an American sailor would be very interesting to lots of people, go for it!

[snowflakejen]

Wow! Very Cool!! Congrats!!

[D Rock]

congrats joe! it wasnt a bad pic at all, u stuck it great!

[Happy]

:camera: Super Fantastic. Congratulations.

A digital scrapbook of your world travels is a wonderful idea. I hope you will share it with us.

[Sierrakitten]

Joe, why don't you set up an alumni site for your ship. That way you have some place to post your "related" photos after they have been cleared. I'm sure there are others that probably have interesting photos to share about it as well.
D

[swillox]

what is an alumni site please ?

[Dave]

[QUOTE=swillox]what is an alumni site please ?[/QUOTE]
Alumni usually refers to a group of people at college or university with shared interests.

[Sierrakitten]

[QUOTE=swillox]what is an alumni site please ?[/QUOTE]

An example....:-)
http://www.1stmob.com/
D

[swillox]

strange word... mmh "university" sounds strange also now I ask myself.

thanks.

[Joezilla]

Honestly, I havent thought about what I will do. I was hoping inspiration might solve that issue for me, and it may still. It is hard to plan a format for pictures I have not taken yet. We are planning to do a 'cruise book' if you will, and I may contribute to that. I am just not a people person. I try to avoid people in my shots when possible. I dont want a family vacation look to my artwork. I want to express as best I can thru digital media what I saw and how it impressed me. Some goofball waving like a monkey doesnt portray the right sentiment sometimes.

Boy, can I ramble or what?

[Jaygre]

I know EXACTLY what you mean, Joe. My family runs when they see me with my camera. I tend to want to do non-people photos anyway, much less stressful. And I haven't been able to capture (I think because of the quality of my camera) non-posed shots effectively. Your description of "family vacation" look is spot-on in the way I would describe mine. Now your photo that appeared in the paper is an example of a planned, but casual photo. That's good - I've been reading, but Newby has put me in touch of several sites that have been really helpful (take a look back in some of the photog. threads).

Anyway, I wish you the best - the cruise book sounds wonderful :)

Joanie

[swillox]

but people can sometimes be the most impressive subjects...don't you think ?

not the goofball, I mean the guy next to him who did something really cool for you, and you despite not to have took a pic of him, just for memory.

Anyway, I understand that feeling, I'm not quite at ease taking groups photographs or model ones...but that's not the point here if you think "photosession":

First there's a simple something in photography you can't ignore: people present in a scenery gives life to the photo, you don't have to ask them to pose for you, letting them just doing their things while you approach, hiding behind your lens. you'll might get better spontaneous reactions (even if goofball is always doing the same dance on all of his) you'll see that with the time,when they become usual seeing you coming from the corner, you'll catch some of those deep face expressions...

Second, think photosession again ! but not the way you understood it above this time, think what kind of pictures am I going to take now, I mean what style: figurative, scenery, landscape, portraying, humoristic, reportage, even architectural or abstract...

Trying to stay in one style at a time you can begin to build up a list of subjects and finally cover the whole journey in a most possible detailed way.

That's enough in sharing secrets,...

Goodnight.

[Dave]

I think you could have a whole mix of stuff, macro shots of bits of the ship, machinery and equipment mixed with panoramic shots of the ship, sea and sky and some of the crew at work and rest but un-posed and real. Landfall is a bonus full of possibilities .... but keep it related to the ship and crew.

Save everything twice over! :)