Personal Narrative: My Internship With The Stony Brook Press

For my internship, I worked with the Stony Brook Press. I did not have an exact role going in but I was willing to do photography and writing. It was only a one credit internship and luckily, I was able work most hours whenever I had time, especially when it came to writing and editing pictures. I mainly worked with Niravni Williams who was the managing editor, but is now the executive editor. Before I even started my internship officially, I had talked with one of their writers who wanted to have a photography session for an article. This would be my first assignment with the Press, and it was definitely the hardest. While I do have some experience working in a photography studio, it was intimidating trying to direct and photograph my own shoot. Furthermore, the shoot was basically in the dark. The only light source would be coming from a projector which was showing scenes from anime films. This already was extremely difficult to work with—every setting on my camera was the exact opposite of what would normally be used in a studio shoot. In the end, I was able to make it work and they used the photographs in the print issue and for the cover. …show more content…
This one was more fashion based and for an article about thrift shopping. They wanted it to be a studio shoot, but the Press does not actually have a studio. They had had a black sheet and a boxed light to use. The particular shoot was the longest photographing I did in one go. There were about 8 different people modeling and only me as the photographer. In the end, there were over 1,500 pictures to edit, which was left to me as well. This was the first time I really had a “professional” photoshoot and I was the only one to lead the models, take pictures, and edit the