tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-32487088031659775132011-10-02T07:04:57.722-04:00The quirky aspects of being a photojournalist in Indiana.Erik Markovhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14430391346115299610noreply@blogger.comBlogger411100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3248708803165977513.post-83849409748680923692011-01-31T12:09:00.000-05:002011-01-31T12:09:14.732-05:00

Before they came down, I got a chance at the beginning of January to get some pictures of the holiday lights strung from the top of the Soldiers and Sailors Monument on the circle. I shot it once before, but wasn't happy with the results. Much too flat. Of course now that I'm using HDR.....  Some Colts pride in the lower right corner.Didn't help them much, as that was the nightthey lost to the

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While in Chicago over the holidays, I also spent a few hours at the University of Chicago. It's gotten to be a bit of a cliche I think to take photos there. There are photos of the campus all over Flickr, lots of blogs. Yet, it was still a place on my list to check out as I had never been there before. A walkway outside Bond Chapel.Image copyrighted by Erik Markov    Image copyrighted by Erik

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Been a while since my last post, hasn't been anything too exciting of late. Spent the week between Christmas and New Year's in Chicago. Christmas day spent some time visiting family in the western suburbs. Was right near Morton Arboretum in Lisle, some place I've always wanted to visit but never had the opportunity to. It happened that the grounds were free for the holiday. Shot a ton of

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I was able to have a very cool experience Friday. I went for a flight in a World War II T-6 Texan warplane. There is a small grass trip airport in Kokomo, Glenndale Airport. For the past 10 years they have held Glenndale Days which is a fundraiser for an organization that helps families with children suffereing from Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA). The two day event features a bunch of Piper Cubs

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I spent the past weekend geeking out on light painting. There's maybe six days during a month where there is no moon, or at least not enough to mess up the exposure. But between having to work, crappy days of weather, whatever else; that shrinks to two or three days. It ends up being a couple late nights and sleeping in some the next morning. Saturday I tried a new location. I know a gentleman in

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I had the first easter egg hunt of the year to shoot Saturday. This one was an adult easter egg hunt. Haven't heard of that too often. To make it a little more difficult, it was held just after the sun set.I got to the park and was a little dismayed at what I saw. I saw a lot of eggs spread out over the large field. It reminded of this easter egg hunt from last year. Except that was a hunt

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The big story in town right now is the fact that the holiday lights that are around the Howard County Courthouse, which is in downtown Kokomo, are of a decidedly non-religious nature. Someone with the county made the decision that the lights on the lawn of the courthouse would not reflect Christian religion. (Separation of Church and State, it's only the first amendment) Apparently this decision

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I spent the afternoon with a fellow Kokomo photographer, Roger Davis, at the local auto yard. I always thought it looked like it had potential for interesting images, but it was actually Roger who went there first about a month ago. We both have an interest in HDR images, so we spent the afternoon hanging out amongst car parts and old buildings. I was pleased with how they turned out.Warren's

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Time has lapsed since I shot my first time lapse. (Get it? Ha... Ok, so it's not that funny.) Shot my first time lapse back in May, when I shot my first HDR images. Shooting it was the easy part. Made a few mistakes, but it went fine. That was nearly 6 months ago. Actually making it into a video was an arduous, painful task.The only thing I really had to put it together was Adobe Premiere

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Dove into the deep end of light painting the other day. I've talked about the technique before. Except for the cemetery, that was all relatively small stuff. And even the cemetery was only composed of three main images, and didn't have a huge amount of lightpainted items composing it.I've got all sorts of memos for myself typed into my Blackberry. I've got a phone that's a couple years old, but I

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Two interesting quotes I've just recently come across.....Has me feeling very cerebral about photography."Gear is good. Vision is better." - photojournalist David duChemin"From discipline and repetition comes the ability to improvise andbe creative, If you try to be creative and improvise without disciplineyou have chaos. But once you have the discipline, once you take care of all the details,

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If the post is going to skirt the bounds of internet good taste,the photo might as well follow. Really, it's a shot from atraveling freak show circus I saw in Indy. Sword swallowers,feats of strength etc.Image copyright Erik Markov 2009This is shameless self-promotion, sorry. I've got a new website, my first actually. Over at Sportsshooter, someone in a recent article about blogging was quoted as

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Turbines seem to be the next big thing in central Indiana. I first noticed some turbines already erected along I-65 north of Lafayette in July, with more structures being worked on. Every time I would drive back and forth to Chicago I would watch the progress as another few turbines were set up. And the scale of these are amazing.It's a little too far out of the Kokomo Tribune's coverage area for

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My Lens. What happens when my lens hits a hard wooden object.Image copyright Erik Markov 2009I did something stupid the other day..... I listened to a reporter. There was a story about some cement dams in a local creek that are being taken out. To get a picture of one of the dams it was necessary to go across a very old, very rickety train trestle and down the wooded bank of the creek.I had a

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Wherever you are at, that's the place to be.Image copyright Erik Markov 2009At the Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, IL. shooting the NASCAR race for the second year in a row. While up on a shooting platform getting some photos of cars on the track during practice, I saw this jumble. Reminds me of the "You Are Here" on maps. Of course that never seems to help, just because one is there, doesn't

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Apparently it is possible to completely contradict yourself, even within the space of a week. It turns out I proved myself wrong. From 4 days before, the exact quote, "...so good that you can't even tell sometimes it's an HDR image. I think that's what to strive for..." I spent the first weekend of May down at the Indianapolis Speedway shooting hot air balloons. Before the Speedway was a

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I had the day off so I went to Indianapolis today. Had to pick up my credentials for the "Greatest Spectacle in Racing." (Indy 500 of course) Always a good day when it's time to get those. After that I went over to the Indianapolis Museum of Art to take some pictures. The museum has a really great garden, lots of different flowers depending on the time of year, some cool architecture. Just a

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From my assignment to shoot the easter egg "hunt" at the civic center.The children were divided into different age groups for the hunt.Image copyright Kokomo Tribune 2009S-egg-regationImage copyright Kokomo Tribune 2009The opinions expressed in this blog are my own and do not necessarilyreflect those of my employer. Comments containing off-color or hateful language may be removed.

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As part of a two person staff now, my shift is nights during the week. This week I've had two swim portraits to shoot of h.s. swimmers who will be competing at state. I wish I could shoot them in whatever pool SI uses, it must be filled with magic water. Their swimming portraits always look so cool.The first one was on Tuesday of a sophomore, Julia Walters, who swims for a school in another

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I think like many photographers, I have a love/hate relationship with lighting assignments. When it works, lighting is really cool. When it doesn't work I absolutely hate it. ;)When I started shooting I didn't light much of anything at all. Basketball I shot with on-camera flash and the crappy quality that goes with it. Then I got a off-camera flash cord which allowed me to play around a little

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It's been a couple months since I was last here, sorry about that. It's pretty much all tied to it. Been kinda crazy, and creativity has taken a bit of a backseat to just getting things done. A few assignments I've had since my last post have all involved light painting. Not that they necessarily had to be done by light painting, but it just seemed easier.Light painting is a bit like taking the

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I found this in a parking lot in Kokomo, on Thanksgiving of all days.Mom Brummett?On the back it says,"Colburn, You're the son I never wanted and so much more! So glad we finally got to act together. :) Beth"So many questions, so few answers. Is this Mom Brummett? If not, who is it? Who is Colburn? Who is Beth?There are things I'm thankful for this year. I'm healthy. I'm a little wiser, at least

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Image copyright Kokomo Tribune 2008 Had a couple sports assignments last week that got some big play on the section front which made me extremely happy.The first one was a story about two triathletes competing in an upcoming event. They weren't actually practicing as the assignment said they would be, so I had to resort to a portrait. Framing the two of them with the front wheel of one of the

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As I mentioned in my last post, I had asked for some advice of some fellow photographers on how to approach my new work schedule. I explained I was afraid that I would get burnt out being only one of two photographers and if anyone had suggestions about how to keep that focus that allows one to see the great images, I would be appreciative. I got some helpful advice, and I got some funny

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It's inevitable, even if no pays notice to it. Change is gonna happen.I've had this post floating around in my head for a few days now. It's a mish-mash of different stuff, some recent, some from the past. This is one of those posts that I always felt like was a reason I didn't start doing a blog earlier. It feels way self-indulgent. If you quit reading halfway thru, don't worry no hurt

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From uppper left, clockwise: local pilots, spa treatments,kneeboarding and margaritas.Image copyright Kokomo Tribune 2008 The latest issue of out magaine finally came out, with the cover featuring the kneeboarding assignment I did just over a month ago. Its the one in lower right corner. The others are previous covers I've done in the past year. The opinions expressed in this blog are my own

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I don't know if anyone reading my blog is subscribed to RSS posts, but I'm using Feedburner to get them out... or I was using Feedburner. It just doesn't seem to be working as it should be so I'm killing it. It might create some problems for you and I'm sorry about that. Or it might not, I'm not really positive what will happen once it goes away. Sorry about this, I'm new to this blogging thing

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The Tipton H.S. band theme for their performance was KISS.Image copyright Kokomo Tribune 2008 Spent most of the day at the Indiana State Fair. Saw some animals, ate fair food. There are days it's tough to get out of bed for the job.(That was sarcasm, it's not really tough.)The fair was enjoyable, have been in Indiana for seven years but this was my first time there. Focused on some of the local

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Angel and priestImage copyright Erik Markov 2008 On Sunday, the morning after shooting the Nascar race, stopped for breakfast in Shorewood, IL at Crispy Waffle. Good food. Like the name, simple, tells you exactly what the deal is. Leaving the restaurant, I looked at the little row of vending machines they had lined up. Gobstoppers, various other types of candy and toys. Of the five or six

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Greg Biffle's pit.You are here.Image copyright Kokomo Tribune 2008 Update ~ The gallery of photos I shot just went up on the Tribune's website.Went up to the Chicagoland Speedway this past Thursday to shoot the Nascar races there this weekend. I would have posted this on the days I shot all of this, but the days were so long I just didn't have the energy after shooting all day to then write

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Levi Bowman works on his car for the Howard County Fair demolition derby later that evening. According to Bowman, "She runs like a top as long as I can keep the drive shaft in." Image copyright Kokomo Tribune 2008 Going over to the demolition derby while I was at the fair probably was the highlight of my day spent there. Shooting animals, and yes I did get some photos of goats, part of the

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Justin Kline pops over a wave as he knee boards on the Mississinewa Reservoir. Image copyright Kokomo Tribune 2008I was out on a boat again Wednesday. When some of the editors at the office looked at the stuff I shot on Saturday for our Howard County Living magazine article, they realized there was a problem.No one I shot who was in the water doing any sort of surfing behind the boat was wearing

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Niccolo Canepa gets a little air as he accelerates leaving the first s-curve at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway during rookie open testing.Image copyright Kokomo Tribune 2008Got a chance to shoot one of the Moto GP practice days at the Indianapolis Speedway this week. Very interesting experience.After five years of shooting the Indy 500, I am definitely a converted gearhead. This wasn't always

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As Bryan Saylers uses a board to surf behind the boat, Ryan Valadez drives, while upfront Kelly Vanglabbeek and Erin Saylers watch Saylers two-year-old daughter.Image copyright Kokomo Tribune 2008Spent part of today out on Erin and Bryan Saylers' boat in the nearby Mississinewa Reservoir for a Howard County Living magazine story on boating fun. Today this job was all fun in the sun. And the sun

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11-year-old Curtis Brown's three-month-old goat is apparentlyin the right place at the Miami County fairgrounds.Image copyright Kokomo Tribune 2008Okay, one more goat picture. Last one I promise. Unless I get another one in two weeks when the Howard County fair starts. Sigh.For some reason I found this funny. I'm not sure where the shoe department is. Cow department is two barns over.

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A goat at the Miami County (In.) 4-H Fair.Image copyright Erik Markov 2008I saw this on the wooden gate of the goat's pen, and thought well.... if it says to, I will.So, I clicked. Its my job.There are those days where it would be easier if there were signs at assignments spelling out exactly what I should do.Blur....Turn around....Ignore....Light....Oh well, I'll just have to continue figuring

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A Kokomo Fire Department ambulance outside the Little Daddy'sadult entertainment showclub.Image copyright Erik Markov 2008....And so few answers.Was it an "employee" injury?Did a patron have a cardiovascular attack during a vigorous personal performance?I guess sometimes the fewer answers there are, the better off everyone is.It's images like this that are the reason this blog has the name it

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Beneficence, or Benny, as she is more affectionately known as at Ball State.Image copyright Erik Markov 2008 This weekend I went over to Ball State University (my alma mater) for a journalism alumni reunion. And I have to be honest, seeing the changes that have been made in the 11 years since I graduated almost brought me to tears.Not that I'm some sentimental sap, that's for wimps.No, I was on

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Reflected in a mirror, Trudy Henricks of Arcadia eats lunchat the Anvil Inn in the little town of Cicero withher granddaughter Lindsey Singleton, who was visiting from Westfield.Image copyright Kokomo Tribune 2008For each issue of our bi-monthly Howard County Living magazine (which is rapidly approaching its year anniversary) we profile a unique and interesting restaurant. The magazine is focused

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Krista Weber, far left, of Cass High School hugs Shyla Moss as Jennifer Berlet and Emily Watkins celebrate in the background after winning the Indiana 2A softball semi final against Southwestern Monday, June 9, 2008. Image copyright Kokomo Tribune 2008 I originally was supposed to shoot the softball championship on Saturday in Indy if Cass had won Friday night. The games got rained out on Friday,

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I started out shooting in high school growing up in the Chicago area, then made the poverty making decision of going to Ball State University in Muncie, In., to study photojournalism in 1993.I may never become rich doing it, it hasn't always been easy, but I don't regret it. Working inside is something I don't think I'm cut out for. Cubicles make me itch.After graduating in 1997, I spent a little

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