I covered Graduation for the second straight year and again commencement signals the beginning of the Summer DI production. The summer paper is tabloid instead of broadsheet, with a cover photo for each issue. As difficult as it is to shoot for the square format of a cover, it’s now even more difficult since the [...]
For the majority of the past week, I’ve spent my time preparing the first ever Daily Illini Photo Issue. After days of sorting through archives, rewriting captions and having nightmares I toned a photo wrong, the issue came out this morning. I was extremely relieved to not have any major errors and that the issue [...]
Summer production is very relaxed. We are only publishing twice a week right now, I fear when that becomes 4 days a week in 4 weeks for summer session II. Also, today and tomorrow I will be going to three meetings to take photos. I’m excited at the challenge of getting different shots of terribly [...]