Me? Homecoming Photographer?

I am currently the Director of Public Relations for APB (the Activities Programming Board). Among other things, one of my jobs is to photograph our events (YAY for getting paid to take pictures!)

This past week was Homecoming here at NKU, which is put on by APB. Therefore, I got to take a bunch of pictures at the different events – which was different than normal because of how many people showed up to the homecoming events! So sometimes I was a little bit anxious about taking pictures and CONSTANTLY criticizing myself. Looking back at all the images I got, they’re OK….but most are not up to my own standards I put on myself. Whether it be a blurry image, poorly composed, “why did I have it set like that?”, etc. But it was experience, which is never a bad thing.

My biggest struggle was photographing the Nearly Naked Run (an annual event where people race in their underwear). First, I was super uncomfortable looking at/taking pictures of guys in their underwear (not a pretty sight). Then it was figuring out what setting to best capture the race, should I have moved from my position at the start/finish line? Should I have gotten more audience reactions?

The best photo-op was the concert – rapper, K Camp. Nobody was allowed to stand past the stage line, except for me J Being able to be the only one past the human-barricade made me feel like a “real band photographer”. I’m not entirely happy with all the photos, and would have liked to move around more, but that small privilege gave me a confidence boost I needed.

I’m looking forward to more opportunities like this one after graduation!

-KP

K Camp & his photo/video person (AKA my competition)