The last day of photo!

 What an AWWWWWWWWWWWESOME semester of photo! Cant wait for the Spring semester!

The evolution of a class photo!

Say what?!?!?

How'd we do that!?!?!?!?

Old Sacramento Field Trip - Fall 2014

Another successful Old Sacramento Field trip! This was our largest to date, 17 students from all four SAVA Campuses! The weather worked out perfectly, we got in between storms! See your students individual blogs for images in the next week!

SAVA Photo contest winners

Sacramento Academic & Vocational Academy held its own Photo Contest this month among all of the photo classes, current and past students: Photo 1 & 2. The winners earned a paid submission to a nation wide contest at Drexel University.

A total of 27 submission were received. The voting process was tough, lots of great submissions!

The winners are:

Markaya Gilmore, a Photo 1 student from the Sacramento Campus:

Victor Donato, a Photo 1 & 2, Portrait Service Learning and current Photo 2 TA from the Elk Grove Campus:

Their photos will be submitted this week! The winners get $500! How cool would that be?! Good luck you two!

More information for the Drexel University contest can be seen below:

http://www.drexel.edu/westphal/undergraduate/PHTO/HighSchoolContest/

Panning at SAVA

This past week we went out to try out luck with panning! Panning is an action sports technique used with slow shutter speeds to make a subject appear in motion. No Photoshop skills used in any of these photos! The settings were roughly around 1/40 to 1/80, in the Shutter Priority mode called Tv on the Canon T3i's. The ISO varied, some were at 400, others at 3200. The students struggled, but after a good dose of persistence, they got it! Way to go Photo 1!
 

A great visit from the Arts Institute

Huge thanks to Amanda Harper for stopping by at the Elk Grove - SAVA Campus. The Arts Institute is an awesome college for those who are thinking of the arts as a major! Amanda took her time to visit with us, show us a lot about the various programs that the college offers. From culinary to fashion design to....PHOTOGRAPHY! Thanks much! If you are interested in contacting Amanda for any additional information or questions, email her at aharper@aii.edu

The Firehouse Photo Team

Small but yet powerful! Rachel, Misty, Brit, Steph and Edrienne!

Portraits at SAVA

For the past few weeks the students have been exploring with portraits! We are very challenged with our surroundings, but I say that the students have ALL made the very best of the situation and have pulled some rather amazing images together! Here are only a few images! Much more to come!

The start of future portrait photographers @ SAVA

This week we begin our two week section on portraits! Let's see what the rockstars pull off in the upcoming weeks!

Let the uploading begin!

As a teacher, watching your students purge their work is super exciting too see and hear!

A Black & White Day at George Sim Center

Aljbiona & Alana learning how to use the manual settings

Esther working her magic!

Contact your Sim students to see their student built Blogger Pages to appreciate their work!

The blogs are HOT!

By Rachel Estrada for vexxphotography.blogspot.com

The students are having a super fun time with the blogs folks! Fellow teachers, if you have a student enrolled in Photography, 1 or 2, ask them to share their blog with you! Please bookmark the page and check in as often as you wish! If you have a Google account, you can log in and comment on your students work! "Its perfect for affirmations," said Kim Shores, Head Teacher at SAVA Firehouse!

The George Sim Center is also a part of the Photography Family!

By Selena Vue

The George Sim Center has finally arrived in Photography! Welcome to all of the awesome students that applied and congrats to those that got in the class! The roster is packed with great future photographers! The site is also great for photography, watch out to the rest of SAVA, the Sim Center students are coming in strong!

By Aljbiona Toshit

Esther Shcherbina

By Ester Shcherbina

Welcome to Photography SAVA Firehouse!

By Misty Godsey

Thrilled to welcome the newest addition to the Photography Family, The Firehouse! The Firehouse is a small yet strong part of SAVA. They are located in the north area, just down the street from Grant High School! As you can see, the images are amazing and we're super excited to see what our students capture! These are just the first images, so much more to come from our photographers!

By Adrienn Bolton

By Ryan Melendez-Ball

By Stephany Parra

By Britany Bolton

By Rachel Estrada