Photo Essay
by the SRSU photo students
Students in Barney Nelson’s
“Photography for Writers” class at
Sul Ross State University have
been getting plenty of practice this
semester with weekly assignments
that target developing a photogra-
pher’s eye. Assignments range
from outsmarting automatic light
meters for whiter snow, blacker
shadows, and more colorful sun-
sets, to learning to use the “Golden
Mean,” rule of thirds, framing, and
vanishing points for landscape
composition.
Students pair photos with week-
ly writing assignments for possible
publication.
More samples of the students’
work are on display in the Brian
Wildenthal Memorial Library on
the Sul Ross campus.
Left: Sydney Lance, a senior Conservation
Biology major and Sul Ross Plant Identification
Team Coach from Denton, combines her
interests in art and science. Here she out-
smarts automatic focus with a difficult blurring
of both foreground and background in order
to sharpen her subject.
Above: Jennifer Martinez, senior English major
from El Paso, combines stop action, framing,
and low angle to give her swinger more
height. Martinez also serves as secretary to
the Sigma Tau Delta English honor society at
Sul Ross.
Next page, top left: Artist and writer, Alouy
Ulices Martinez, senior English major from
Presidio, combines framing and an unusual
angle to blend two familiar pieces of
architecture in Ojinaga, Chih., Mexico for an
inspirational feeling.
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Next page, middle left:
Parker Littlejohn, sophomore Wildlife
Management major from Azle, stopped the
action of roping a dummy at sundown for this
silhouette as part of her series of looking
behind the scenes at the life of a rodeo
student athlete. Littlejohn competes in break-
away roping and barrel racing for Sul Ross.
Cenizo
First Quarter 2015