English 431: Taking on Rhetoric, Writing and Emerging Media

As a photographer, I really want to show the world that I'm different than other photographers. There's always that factor of not standing out enough in the crowd. I believe that the only way to truly show who you are is through a very personal brand. I've created one to showcase. I think that because I spell my name so uniquely, it gives way to showing that my personality matches the name. I did most of the branding in photoshop. I would like to take you through the process! First, I scoured the internet looking for the perfect font. I wanted something that was fun, curly and easily read. I believe I accomplished this. Once I found the font, Stea from 1001 Fonts, I knew that it fit what I was looking for. It's got that perfect amount of "curliness" that I was looking for and it spaced out nicely to fill the page. I put it into photoshop and cut out just my name and saved it as a .png file so I could overlay it on my background later. I went on to f...

Yes, it is that time where as a senior in college I have to lookback at where everything pretty much started to click for me. To your shock, I did not want to work for Sports Illustrated four/five years ago. I actually wanted to be an equine veterinarian with a minor in photography PLUS I wanted to study at Purdue and keep the family alma mater. Nowadays, I look back at 18-year-old me and want to smack her on head. I mean, come on. I wasn't very good at science and there was no way that I could get through all the blood and guts. I could barely make it through a spaying procedure on a dog! That should've been my first clue. I've come a LONG way since then. Since the 2015 Spring semester, I've been wanting to shoot all kinds of sports. So far I've shot; baseball, basketball, bowling, cheerleading, dance, diving, football, ice hockey, dirt track auto racing, soccer, softball and track & field. I want to get even more sports under my belt. I'm looking at mo...

While I’m honored that Buzzfeed thinks I’m a Jedi Master, I don’t think I am myself. Yes, I’m really good at Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator and iMovie. But, that doesn’t mean anything when it comes to putting out content. Or maybe I’m secretly really good at it, but not have any idea that I am? This is where this gets tricky for me. I constantly ask myself, is this going to take well to my audience?  But then I think about my internship at WTHR where we had to please our audience, or “Jennifer” as we called them. I hope that I can figure out if I’m really good at this or not. Sometimes rhetoric is my forte and other days I forget so easily what they are and what they can do.