RICHARD NICOLAS

SATV struggles to gain viewers

After four years, the Student Association Television Station is still struggling to gain the popularity they desire.With small numbers of students tuning in on a regular basis, the SATV staff is trying to find new ways to improve their programming, while keeping the content as clean as possible.Several of their shows have already hopped on the reality TV bandwagon as spin-offs of their more popular counterparts.

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How the average Joe can become a big shot

By RICHARD NICOLAS | Feb. 5, 2007

With new technology, a good photograph doesn't necessarily have to come from a professional. Cameras the size of a mouse can produce images similar to those seen on the sides of buildings in New York City, and even cell phones can produce decent shots.Twenty years from now, we will be rifling through photo albums on facebook wondering who the heck that beautifully possessed red-eyed demon was standing next to us in a basement in University Heights.Junior history major Joshua Walther has already found those ruined images from freshman year on his personal computer."Photographs hold a dream-like quality that helps you reanimate a sequence of events in time which occurred when the picture was taken," he said.Now, blurry overexposed photos that look like a preview for the next Terminator movie, an epidemic of poor photography, can be held at bay for even the most amateur of photographers.Daniel Calleri, the instructional support technician for the Department of Visual Studies has shed some light on a few tips that could greatly improve your photography:Compose each shot.

SATV struggles to gain viewers

How the average Joe can become a big shot

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