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Cape Town - 29 August 2017 - Scenes from the UWC afternoon Graduation Ceremony, 29 August 2017, at 14h00. Picture Jeffrey Abrahams
Bearcats graduate during the Commencement exercises April 29, 2017 (Photo by Carly Hostetter | Northwest Missouri State University)
2018/04/04
09h30
Wednesday
Session 1 Arts: (Doctoral, Masters, BA (A-M), BLIS, BTh)
Session 2 Arts and EMS :
(BA Hons, BA (N-Z), PGD and Higher Certificates (EMS))
Picture Jeffrey Abrahams
Graduation evokes complex emotions, of leaving the past and moving forward to the unknown. Our children occupied these seats for close to 2 decades to leave as young adults. Human Metamorphosis. As much as we long for and celebrate this occasion, there is always a feeling of loss once those years are over and the chairs are now to be filled by future hopefuls. I added the frame, imagining it juxtaposed to a happy graduation picture - the image of accomplishment and hope.
Graduation ceremonies take place over the whole week with hundreds of students being handed their certificates and being able to proudly wear their mortar boards and gowns.
My wife is graduating from the University of Kansas this May and we decided to do something fun for graduation announcements. We wanted pictures in front of the Campinile Bell tower since it's a big landmark on campus and the graduates walk under it on Commencement day. Other locations we tried were crazy windy but this one turned out pretty good.
I used a B+W Circular Polarizer to get the super blue sky and drop the exposure a bit. I had the ISO set to 250 instead of 100 because I forgot to knock it back down after my last shoot.
Strobist info:
Main light: White Lightning Ultra 1200 into Large (32x40") Foldable Softbox, 1/2 power, just to the right of subject about 3ft.
Fill light: Alien Bees B400 with standard reflector at full power, camera left about 10-12ft.
Both triggered with PocketWizard Transceiver Plus II with FlashZebra sync cords. All powered by the amazing Vagabond II battery pack.
ISO 250, 1/250, f/14
Here's the Setup Shot