I cut my hair off!

  If you didn’t know, I cut my hair off last week for Locks of love. its a really strange transition for me. But it was really fun, and I had a lot of support from all of my friends.(thanks to everyone who showed up and helped cut off some hair)   I made a time lapse video of the night.  It took an hour and a half to cut off, watch it all in …

Balloons~!

My room is filled with balloons!!! 750 balloons filling my room.   I had a great break down in Grants Pass. I drove back up to Corvallis and walked into my room to find that my room was filled with balloons.  I think that its the coolest thing ever.  750 balloons filling my room in this pic. Thanks to Ray McGuinness, Jeremy Carter, Erica Henderson, and Jaron Wilson for “pranking” me. Coolest thing ever 

I am the worst blogger, and New Years Resolutions

enough said. its been more than a months since my last blog post. Time to do some catch up.    That will be my transition into my New years resolutions. For a few days now I have been trying to find a way to consolidate my goals into something that is more of a principle and less of an (insert something) more type of goal.  and thats kinda what it turned into.  My goal is …

The History of Oregon State University

Oregon State University History Link to video transcreipt http://billy-newman.squarespace.com/projects/?SSScrollPosition=200  OregonState University is one of the oldest colleges to be built in Oregon. Founded in 1868, the original creation of the college makes it almost as old as the State of Oregon itself.  The campus has expanded and changed very much during the past century here in Corvallis. In fact the Campus was originally just a single building under the name of Corvallis College. Several more name …

Corvallis Fall Color

  This is A video I made this afternoon with the Nikon D300s, The Goal of this video was to get use to shooting HD video on a DSLR camera. Between intermittent rain storms and never having enough space on my CF card, this shoot had its share of problems. But it was good practice.  I shot most of the scenes with a 50mm f1.8 and a fixed 300mm f2.8.  I would do this video over again …

Photos from the Cal Football Game

This past Saturday I had another chance to Photograph the OSU Football game. Had a blast walking around the sidelines taking photos all day. Besides a little bit of rain (it could have been much worse) the weather was good.  I was shooting with the Barometers Nikon D300 and a fixed 300mm lens. Other then a couple of autofocus problems It was a pretty good set up.  I was able to capture some pretty good …

October Morning Photos

  There is really nothing like October mornings. I love this time of year, the trees, the colors, the sky, all of it.  Ive been looking for some time for me to go out and shoot this fall.  As I said, its one of my favorite times of year and especially my favorite time for photography.   90% of the time there is really nothing someone can do to get me up and out of …

Photographing the OSU vs ASU Football Game

Moments after the Oregon State touchdown against Arizona State University this past Saturday at the game    This past Saturday I had the opportunity to stand on the sidelines of the OSU vs ASU football game as a photographer for the Barometer.  This was a very interesting experience, I have to say that it felt like a crash course in sports photography (a field of photography I know very little about). I think of myself …

haha Timmy’s fake bio about me.

My friend Timmy wrote and posted a fake bio about me in an attempt to encourage me to write my About Me section on my website. I still have yet to write an about me page but I thought I should post timmys fake.   Hello, I am Billy Newman and this is my website  Here is a little about myself: I was born in a little town called Haplin, Michigan. I have lived in …

VP of INTEL Speaks on the future of innovation

Media Credit: Billy Newman Justin Rattner of Intel speaks at the LaSells Stewart Center Monday night to a packed auditorium about Moore’s Law and the future of innovation at INTEL By Katherine Younger The Daily Barometer People struggled to find seats in the Construction and Engineering Auditorium inside LaSells Stewart Center on Monday evening to hear Justin Rattner, vice president and chief technology officer of Intel. Rattner discussed the near-future of technology in his presentation, …

Learn To Fly Day

  Saturday was international learn to Fly Day. I was the assigned photographer for the Barometer. I had a ton of fun Saturday afternoon, The people out at the Corvallis airport are really cool. I really wasn’t expecting to get in a plane and fly around Corvallis when I got there.   I went with Makenzie Marineau, a friend that works for the Barometer. The 2 of us ended up being some of the only people to show up for the …

Ninkasi Brewing Co

  Ninkasi Brewing co. out of Eugene offered free samples of their most popular breers down at the brew station.  Picked up a couple photos for the barometers wild art section last Thursday. 

Intramural Softball

  Spent some time last Wednesday at the intramural softball game. Grabbed a couple shots of the group while I was there.  

watching the sunset.

Drove south of town this evening to a grass field looking out to marys peak. spent about 45 minutes taking photos until the sun went down  I was shooting with my Nikon D2h with a 50 mm f1.4  and my 18-75  I have also been working with raw files more, Shot everything today in raw and then edited and converted it in light room. 

Photo Walk 4-21-2010

Spent part of the day after class shooting around campus. I borrowed a 50mm 1.4 from the barometer and I shot these photos. The goal was to practice depth of field.     

Smith Rock adventure programming trip.

  This last weekend I went on a camping trip to Smith Rock with the rest of my intro to outdoor adventure programming class. I had a great time on this trip, we camped out for 2 nights in pretty cold conditions. Saturday was the first time that I have ever been rock climbing on real rock. it was a great experience and I hope I get to do it again soon.   Later in …

NMC Studio production project

  Check out our nmc studio production project. I had a lot of fun co-hosting the show with Brendan Brucker.   

USDA grants full-ride scholarship, ticket to Disney World to six OSU students

Media Credit: Billy Newman Billy Newman | THE DAILY BAROMETER Left to right: Danielle Nayla, Martine Torres, Emily Escobedo, Ashley Sealy and Omar Miranda-Garcia prepare to travel to Florida for the USDA Multicultural Scholars Program.   Six OSU students will be spending their spring break in Florida, courtesy of the United States Department of Agriculture, where they will be visiting the most magical place on earth. Their paid trip to Disney World is just one …

A whole new world

This was recorded on my phone and posted to twitvid. Sorry for the low quality. Pleas enjoy our impromptu performance of “a whole new world” from Aladin.

Finley Wildlife Refuge Butterfly Bush Planting event.

Jeremy Kreutzbemder, a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, volunteered with several other fraternity brothers at the Finley Wildlife Refuge Butterfly Bush Planting event. The Daily Barometer The current endangered situation of the Fender’s blue butterfly has left those concerned with the dwindling population determined to help. Last Saturday, many students and local community members planted various species of plants at the W.L. Finley Wildlife Reserve for the benefit of the sky-blue butterflies. People don’t normally …

Green Screen PSA for OSU bike riders safety

Currently I am in a studio production class at OSU. This video was for an assignment to make a psa about bike riders safety. As you can see it does not look very realistic at all. In fact its some of the worst green screen work I have seen.  But It was a fun thing to shoot and I have to say I learned a lot of what to do and what not to do when …