Michael Fioritto

Archive for December 2008

Happy Birthday Mia!

Hi Mia,
Happy Birthday! Hope you have a great day and we love and miss you. I think you were in the Nutcracker when I took this shot. If I remember correctly you were in-between performances or this might have been a break during a rehearsal.
You also look a lot like your cousin Anna in this [...]

My photo project

Here’s what I am going to be working on. It is self-directed, long-term and should prove to be interesting and challenging.
The Amandla Project
I hope to document over an extended period of time the administrators, teachers and children of Amandla Charter School as they challenge the belief that schools can’t make a difference in educational inequity, [...]

Need some help with Photoshop

I need some Photoshop help for this photo. I like this shot of kids playing tag, but the boy’s hand in the foreground is overexposed. It was in a shaft of sunlight so there is really no detail there. What is the best approach to burn this down? (Update: the kid’s face has been blurred [...]