Faux Macho

I covered Graduation for the second straight year and again commencement signals the beginning of the Summer DI production.

The summer paper is tabloid instead of broadsheet, with a cover photo for each issue. As difficult as it is to shoot for the square format of a cover, it’s now even more difficult since the shape has changed to something similar to the state of Utah:

See last year’s cover to compare here: http://mulkaphoto.wordpress.com/2009/05/18/summer-commences/

Images Copyright Ned Mulka/The Daily Illini May 16, 2010

For the majority of the past week, I’ve spent my time preparing the first ever Daily Illini Photo Issue. After days of sorting through archives, rewriting captions and having nightmares I toned a photo wrong, the issue came out this morning. I was extremely relieved to not have any major errors and that the issue seems to be a success. After a full academic year in the editor’s chair it’s nice to leave on a high note.

Here are the online photos galleries: http://www.dailyillini.com/special/Daily-Illini-Photo-Issue-2010

The pdf of the print version here: http://www.dailyillini.com/digital-archives/2010/05/11/wednesday-may-11-2010

I am excited to see if the staff can continue on the “Sight to see” gallery, since its contents are vastly different than anything else we offer.

Image Copyright Ned Mulka/The Daily Illini

Summer production is very relaxed. We are only publishing twice a week right now, I fear when that becomes 4 days a week in 4 weeks for summer session II. Also, today and tomorrow I will be going to three meetings to take photos. I’m excited at the challenge of getting different shots of terribly boring events. Also, I took two feeches today, something I’ve never done.