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 …

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 

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 …

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 …

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 …

  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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

  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. 

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. 

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.     

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

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 …

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.