Thursday, January 24, 2013

Tiana Key, Courtney Stehm, Dustin Smith, & Ryan Thomas (from left to right)

Dustin Smith

Dustin Smith & Fernando Conception
These are some pictures I captured for my first 3 concentrations, I really really like them actually. It's kind of like what I wanted it to look like. It captured the emotional, passionate, and happy side of worshiping. These were taken at The Vineyard Student Union, (my church) The people in the pictures are Dustin Smith (the worship leader) Courtney Sthem, Tiana Key, Ryan Thomas, and Fernando Conception. The main focus was to get the raw essence of worship by either catching an occasional smile, or just a few hands in the air. I really like the first picture because the 2 girls are in focus and you can see their happy leading all of the kids in worship and everything else is there but it's blurred which is how it should be during worship, HE is the main focus and the rest of the world is blurred, with the second picture I really like this one, like a lot. The hands are perfect it was like a right in the moment this was what I was feeling so I threw my hands up to worship. Dustin's hands are screaming I'm here I love you, I want to worship you. And, with the last picture, it's perfect. PERFECT. It shows him in the pure reflection of Christ, he is singing and throwing his hand up to share the gift God has given him with the youth ministry, leading by example. I feel like I captured more than pictures, I captured moments. I edited them with iPhoto and took them using a Nikon. Our God's NOT dead he's surely alive and he's living on the inside roaring like a lion :)

Thursday, January 17, 2013

Me Worshiping




Worship is a beautiful thing.

CHANGE HAS OCCURRED...

Okay, so it's official. I have changed my idea already and we're only on the second concentration. I wasn't really feeling the whole loneliness idea I previously had, I ran out of ideas of what I could do. So, as of right now I think I'm going to do worship as in church worship. I will ask to borrow a camera and I will go and take pictures of my church service as they all worship. In my opinion it will be cool, and it can give you a feel for worship and why I admire it so much. I can only see this as not only easier for me but more connection toward the actual project. I'm better at taking pictures than "drawing" or "painting" so you'll be able to tell by my photography what my reasoning behind changing this was.