Student Life

Life of a NSA Student

By: Martha Smith, Wes Moon, and Mattia Laudi

Students at NSA are all into similar activities, these following photos display some of the activities students partake in outside of their sports and training.

In this photo we chose to capture Kelly’s class outside for class.  Often when the weather is nice classes will go outside for class, it provides a nice change of scenery.  While editing this picture we tried to bring out the shadows from the trees but it was harder to do because the branches do not provide a crisp shadow.

In this picture we took to show students doing homework up in their rooms.  We had to mess with the Hue Balance in order to bring out the difference in colors between the curtains and the pillows.

This picture was taken to capture the common area on the main floor of the school.  Students can always be found hanging out on the couches watching a game of just flipping channels.  We cropped this picture to give it more or a panoramic look to emphasis the focus is on the students, not just the room.

This picture shows the students mailboxes; makeup homework or letters and postcards are placed in each students box.  The tennis rackets in the rafters display how active the students are.  During free periods and after school many kids will go play tennis on the courts across the street.

This picture was taken in the Exeter Room; this room has computers that students can do their schoolwork on.  We had trouble editing this picture because the window behind the student was so washed out and it was near impossible to bring out any color.

This picture shows a student writing on the white board.  We messed with the levels in this picture to bring out the reflection of the students arm on the whiteboard.

This picture shows a student logging onto APEX, this is the online program that most students have at least one class on.  We cropped this picture to make it longer so that the computer was in the lower third, making the rule of thirds very obvious in this picture.

This picture shows a student out on the tennis court across from the school.  We again messed with the hue saturation to bring out the red and green on the court, along with the colors in the background.

This picture shows a student using Twitter on her iPod, many students spend time on Twitter, and Facebook during their free time.  The lighting in the picture was not very good, therefore when editing it; it was hard to bring out the different shades of white.