Tag Archive: emotion

Reframing Negativity

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-11-10T22:20:14Z in Personal Development, with these tags: courage, emotion, fear, growth, positivity, thoughts, 0 Comments. 1,929 words.

At the college, we have a ritual each semester where we have to evaluate our professors. Student feedback, or so it’s called.

There are 14 categories, including things like “gives examples,” “answers questions,” and “is fair.” You can rate 1 to 5 on each.

This seems like a negative thing, because you have to rate your professor’s performance objectively. You have to decide how he’s done, evaluate him in many categories, and then write suggestions (most people don’t do this). It’s a big responsibility, because college administrators will be judging his merits, worthiness, and teaching ability based on your report.

But in my …

Photo: Beautiful Heart

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-11-08T12:51:13Z in Photography, Portraits, Stock Photos, with these tags: beautiful heart, canon rebel xti, ef 28-135mm, emotion, eye contact, eyes, fiery hearts, lyric, people, red, selective color, smiles, 0 Comments. 180 words.

Beautiful Heart

A girl named Lyric, holding up a print of Fiery Hearts, which represents her heart. Don’t hurt her! She’s fragile like the glass in that picture frame.

I always try to get my models to look down with eyes up toward the camera, or toward the side… it’s a much more interesting pose than a dead-on stare. That worked well here.

I took out her nose ring, part of a tattoo, and some of her clothes. The photo is much more appealing that way. :cool:

The framed picture didn’t turn out good to start, because it was mostly …

Photo: Isolation, Contemplation

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-10-04T00:41:44Z in Photography, Portraits, with these tags: beauty, canon rebel xti, conceptual, ef 50mm 1:1.4, emotion, isolation, isolation contemplation, sarah 2, 0 Comments. 154 words.

Isolation, Contemplation

The last shot from my adventure with Sarah, and the most artsy. We went to the college theater, where they have a meshed window that makes patterns of light like this on the wall. I had her sit on the carpet so the light was right on her cheek, and told her to look down like she was thinking, and that’s how we got this.

I’m proud of her; she was quite shy and this was her first time modeling, but she let go of her shyness and let her spirit shine through. I think there’s …

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Photo: Eyes

By Richard X. Thripp at 2008-07-01T02:09:20Z in Photography, with these tags: animals, black, canon rebel xti, dogs, ef 50mm 1:1.4, emotion, eyes, isolation, vignetting, 0 Comments. 67 words.

Eyes — a melancholic dog stares at the camera

Through the eyes of a dog. This is my aunt’s dog named Joseph; I set the camera on the carpet and snapped this of him staring at it. I was lucky to get his eyes in focus. He looks sad and thoughtful.

Canon Rebel XTi, EF 50mm 1:1.4, 1/25, F2.5, 50mm, ISO400, 2008-06-26T15:37:03-04, 20080626-193703rxt

Source image. I edited some dirt away from his eyes, darkened the corners, and added contrast.

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