Monday, June 13, 2011

Panorama of Destruction

I took this panorama consisting of 5 pictures while part of a Disaster Response Team from SFN Church of Springfield, MO to Joplin, MO one week after the tornado struck. I didn't have a tripod available so the pictures aren't as seamless as I had hoped. I superimposed a street view picture from Google to give you an idea of what the location looked like before. Many of the volunteers thought we were in a trailer park not a a neighborhood with stick built homes. I was facing northwest when I took the photographs. I used my Canon PowerShot SD790 IS. To get a better view click on the photograph.

Surreal

My hand at creating a surreal graphic. Once again taking advantage of a photoshopt tutorial found at psd.tutsplus.com. Once again I change some of the graphics they recommend just to see how the effects of the tutorial work on different subject matter. I learned some things I'd do differently next time, but by and large I was satisfied with how my first effort came out.

Sunday, June 5, 2011

SFN Disaster Response Team Video

On Memorial Day, 2011 SFN Church sent their Disaster Response Team to help with the cleanup in Joplin, MO following a devastating tornado they had. I shot about 64 minutes of video that day using a Canon GL2. The voice overs were recorded the following Wednesday and are the voices of the team members. I created the title logo by combining SFN's logo and a clip-art tornado graphic that was slightly modified.