I’ve finished posting images from the Summer Intensive portion of the summer.  These are the first from my Outdoor Photography course that followed Summer Intensive.  These shots are from three separate assignments we were give early in the 10-day course.  The first assignment was to take an iconic shot of Missoula.  Basically, that means a shot that you can immediately identify as being from Missoula.  The added challenge for the Summer Intensive students in the class was to include a subculture of Missoulian life in the picture.  I chose to shoot some bicyclists along the River Trail system, including Mt. Sentinel in the background.  Missoulians love their bikes.

The second shot was part of an exercise in shooting at civil twilight, or the half hour before/after sunrise/sunset.  During civil twilight, the sky becomes a very rich blue color.  The shot of the flag was taken in the morning shortly before sunrise (which is extremely early during the summer in Montana.  I don’t know how I managed to get up that early).

The third image was part of an assignment to shoot an environmental portrait of a person.  An environmental portrait is an unstaged photograph of a subject in their natural environment.  This assignment was designed to help us get used to shooting people.  Outdoor photographers often shy away from including humans in their shots, but images including humans usually sell better.  I chose to head to Biga Pizza for dinner and asked if I could take some shots of the cooks preparing the pizzas.  I managed to get a shot of one cook tossing the pizza dough in the air.

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