Shot Sequences

I knew I just wanted do simple things for this project. And I just got my cat from home to my apartment so I was really excited to shoot him in some of my videos. I shot and edited this video.

Project One: PSA

I love animals, and having my cat at my apartment made this an easy choice on what to do for a Public Service Announcement. I wanted to show off my cat and also how to take care of one. I shot and edited this video.

Project Two: NAT Sound (Revised)

My boyfriend Brandon always is playing this game and it has a lot of weird sounds in it, so I thought I could do this for my Natural Sound project. I shot and edited this video.

Project three: Freeform

Once again I used my cat in a video, I know…but I knew that this would be a good project for a freeform to be the life of my cat Ringo. It shows what he does every day. I shot and edited this video.

Project Four: Final

My boyfriend Brandon used to play baseball for Point Park before he graduated last year. So it was only appropriate to do something on baseball for my final project. He is always talking about the games so I went out and shot one with him. I shot and edited this video, Brandon came up with the Questions.

Drone March 2013

Back in 2013 my best friend and I went to Washington D.C. for the weekend and we participated in an anti-drone march.

Here are a few of my favorite shots from that day.

Decay in Oakland

I tried to picture my friend as a ghost here in these photographs.

In Oakland there is a huge beautiful building that seems to be an abandoned Chevrolet Factory.

Here are a few of my favorites.

Spring Valley Pool

When I was 2 years old I had my first birthday party at Spring Valley Community Pool.

Back in 1994, kids were dropped off at the pool with their friends on the weekends or after school in the summer. We didn’t have phones, we didn’t have computers, we had friends and the outdoors. This pool is where I learned to swim in the deep end, where I learned how to dive off the tall diving board without getting scared. This picture is of the playground where I learned how to swing, balance myself on the rail, and how to use the monkey bars.

Now, with chipping paint and overgrown with high weeds, this playground is far from being anyone’s ‘firsts’ of anything.

Foggy Water

I volunteered in the 2013 Ovarian Cancer Walk and photographed some of the events while I was there.

While everything was going on in the park for the benefit, I saw tiny bench with the most beautiful small lake and I had to take a picture of it.

“I love how to captured the fog over the water!”

-Brandon Savka

No matter how busy everything was over at the event, I loved to take a minute and photograph the foggy lake and think to myself.

About Myself

My name is Kiersten Mae Lewis and I am a senior photojournalism major at Point Park University. I live in Shadyside Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and I love it.

I carry my camera everywhere, taking photos of everything I see that is interesting.

What I love photographing the most is urban decay. Urban decay is something that I love to try to make people see in a beautiful way. Most people see an abandoned building and think it should be bulldozed and made into amazing city apartments.

I see something that could be made beautiful, I take the pictures in different angles, in different light, and suddenly everyone sees my point of view.

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Final for Dig. Vid.