Category: Photo Gallery
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The Great Pivot: The art of Matt Rush
Photos by students in COMM 1318 Photography 1 It’s tough to decide what catches your eye first. Is it the name of the exhibit? Or the bronze cowboy that stands watching on a pedestal nearby? Both appear to say a lot about Matt Rush. The exhibit is called “The Great Pivot, from motivational speaker to…
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Photoshop practice: Captured & combined
Photoshop practice: Captured and combined Creative? Weird? Unusual? It’s hard to know how to describe the latest batch of photos from students in COMM 1318 Photography 1. This time they practiced using different tools in Photoshop to create a composite photo. A composite is something made up of two or more parts. The rules of…
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Haunting memories from Spooky Science
Photos by Marley Nix & Mia Walker/COMM 1318 Photography 1 Halloween may be over but where can you still do dissections on a cadaver table, take an owl pellet apart, or handle a snake? In a South Plains College science class. For a few hours last week, the Wilburn and Helen Wheeler Science Center on…
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Picture this: A close-up glimpse of fall
Fall is in the air. After months of 90- degree weather, chilly temperatures have started sweeping across West Texas. Leaves and acorns are beginning to change color and are starting to fall. Some flowers are going to seed. Photography students in COMM 1318 Photography 1 recently tried capturing the essence of the season using the…
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Something spooky in a dark room
COMM 1318 Photography students illustrated the story. It doesn’t take much to get it right. A darkened room, some Christmas lights strung on a back wall, and the right camera setting. The photographic technique of creating a pleasing “blur” is called Bokeh. Students in COMM 1318 Photography 1 practiced it recently and learned something about…
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DIY: Camera obscura
Editor’s note: Elijah Levario from COMM 1318 Photography 1 contributed several of the photos in this project along with the how to steps. First of all, what is one? And secondly, why would you want to? The answer to the second question is easy: It’s fun. It also teaches you something about optics. The answer…
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“Star Wars” in a new light
Editor’s note: Newswriting COMM 2311-601 students wrote the following text. Photography students from COMM 1318 snapped the photos. Their names are on the files. South Plains College photography students may not be saving the galaxy, but the force is still with them. Students in COMM 1318 Photography 1 recently practiced capturing long exposure photos with…
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Pictures inspire creative writing
Editor’s note: Students in COMM 2311-601 wrote this story in class. They are: Matthew Brown, Cheyann Carr, Meredith Cloud, Kamryn Collins, Raston Copeland, Abriel Mata, and Morgan Rustemeyer. COMM 1318 Photography students illustrated the story. Student names are on the picture files. Featured photo by Kyle Schledwitz/COMM 1318 Writer’s block…. It can happen to anyone,…
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Volleyball Class: Double lesson in movement
Photos by students in COMM 1318/PhotographyStory by students in COMM 2311.601/News Writing (Lubbock) Bump, set, snap! While kinesiology students set their shots on the court this week, photography students snapped their own shots off the court. Both groups are learning new skills. Students from KINE 1120 Basketball/Volleyball, who meet every Monday and Wednesday on the…
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Microscopes: Look into a smaller world
Photos by students in COMM 1318/PhotographyStory by students in COMM 2311.601/News Writing (Lubbock) Have you ever looked through a microscope before? About 20 students in the Biology for Science Majors class did during lab last week on the SPC Levelland campus. They were introduced to the microscopes for the first time this semester. SPC Biology…
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Levelland library hosts activities for Banned Books Week
Story & photos by Taylor Reed/Texan Mosaic The Levelland library will be hosting events through the rest of the week celebrating Banned Books Week. Monday and Tuesday the library provided breakfast, along with crafts and coloring and a banned books puzzle. Students can still stop by to do some crafts and coloring or try the…
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Beat stress with massage chairs at Health & Wellness Center
Photos by students in COMM 1318/Photography Tired? Stressed? Check out the two massage chairs in the Peace and Relaxation Room at Health and Wellness on the Levelland Campus. Students in COMM 1318 Photography 1 got the chance to use the chairs last week and practiced snapping photos of themselves doing it. SPC has had the…
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Picture this: TC3 Fair
The Texan Campus, Clubs & Community Fair was held last week on both the Levelland and Lubbock campuses. Organizations associated with the college, and within the community, attended to provide resources and information for students. Students in COMM 1316 News Photography took photos at the event in Levelland. Some of the booths included the cosmetology…
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Picture this: Campus beauty shots
By students in COMM 1318 Photography 1 It could be color or an interesting angle. It might evoke an emotion. What makes a “good” photo? Students in COMM 1318 Photography 1 are beginning to learn. One of their first assignments: grab your smartphone and capture something “pretty” or “interesting” on the Levelland campus. The only…
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Picture this: Livestock judging at the Mallet Event Center
Photos & Story by Brittlee Brock The South Plains College Livestock Judging Team recently hosted its annual 4-H and FFA livestock judging contest. The two-legged contestants were children ranging in age from Kindergarten through 12 th grade. “There was a total of 700 kids competing and 200 adults in attendance,” says Dave Cleavinger, SPC professor…
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Picture this: Final photography poll
Students in COMM 1318 Photography submitted their final projects this week. The photos had to represent their past semester at SPC. The guidelines students received were to take one photo with a shallow depth of field, one photo of motion (either frozen or blurred), one portrait photo and one landscape photo. Students then chose their…
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Picture this: Finding spring
It’s a pretty season. Spring arrived this year on March 19. And ever since, chances are you’ll spot something to photograph if you take your camera outdoors. Students in News Photography COMM 1316 were recently given an assignment to “find” spring with their cameras. The hardest part of the assignment appeared to be narrowing down…
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Picture this: Pleasing patterns
Harmony? A sense of order? Predictability? It’s hard to say why photographs with patterns are so pleasing. But they are. And that makes them a powerful compositional tool. You have to train your eye to spot them. Students in News Photography recently went on a photographic scavenger hunt to snap pictures…
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Brashear Lake offers outdoor fun near campus
If it seems like the new dock at Brashear Lake appeared overnight, that’s because it did. It was completed in February. “The new fishing dock was constructed in one day by EZ Dock of Texas,” says Dustin Reichelt, Levelland parks & cemetery director. “The concrete sidewalk was about a two-week project that connects to the…
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Tin-Man competition promises battle royale
Photos by Alexis Lowe What is that? Actually, it’s a weapon. A robot weapon. It might not look that dangerous until you picture it spinning on the front of a robot. That’s what’s going to happen during this year’s Tin- Man Competition. The event takes place May 3 at the Reese Campus…