The Master Plan - business as usual

So OSU announced the finished version of the Master Plan a few days ago, without changing ANYTHING that people had been complaining about. The athletic village will be on campus as planned, and they'll keep buying houses to get property for it. The only concessions the school really made had been announced weeks ago and were repeated to give lip service to the city's residents.

It was a heated meeting. Lots of arguing, lots of yelling. This guy even did a protest song.



One thing I've noticed when doing news assignments for the World is my frenzied compositions. I get too busy getting shots that I don't think about getting THE shot. As a result sometimes my composition suffers. I'll be working harder, but not necessarily better. This is something I'll have to remedy.

The mayor, Bud Lacy, had strong words for OSU president Schmidly. It was a pretty easy shot to get - just layer the two men with a 200mm.



One last thing I noticed is I'm not that great at using an on-camera flash. Getting good off-camera lighting is like shooting fish in a barrel for me, but when I strap a flash onto the hotshoe, I feel so limited. The shots end up looking flat, with little distinction between the foreground and background. Luckily, I'm not in this situation much.

That's all for today.