Here’s the final product of my photo package in which we learned different types of shots that are good for detailing various parts of a scene. The captions help convey the story and background information for as to what’s happening through a photo.
Photo Package
Anna Koebel is ascending a lead climb, on the wall, as her teammate from the University of Oregon climbing club, Phoebe Borland, belays her. This particular route can be found at Eagle’s Rest which is about a 40-minute drive outside of Eugene. It’s a popular spot for climbers who are looking to pursue riskier climbing such as leading. Lead climbing is where a climber uses a draw to clip into the bolts as they climb a route, so at certain points they’re at risk of falling a certain distance before their rope is caught by where their previous bolt was hooked into.20-year-old Anna Koebel is pulling in the rope’s slack and setting the line in preparation for the next climber. She first started climbing at the age of 9 in Beaverton, Or where she learned to boulder and top rope. Since then she’s competed in bouldering and lead climbing although she did learn to lead climb till she was 13. Now, she is president of the rock climbing team at the University of Oregon and head setter at the Rec Center’s rock wall.Anna is belaying her way down after lead climbing her way to the top of the route named Shapes and Colors, a difficulty rating of 5.11a, which is considered to be intermediate route.Anna is cleaning up one of her teammate’s wounds after she fell lead climbing The Blues are Still Blue route which is rated a difficulty of 5.11a. Her teammate didn’t brace her legs against the rock as climbers are taught to so she cut open her knee. Afterward, her teammates worked to belay her off the wall and Anna saw to cleaning her knee.The last wall Anna is lead climbing for the day is called the Understory which is considered to be the warm-up wall, graded at the difficulty of a 5.8. As she climbs she is clipping the draws hung from her harness into the bolts on the rock which serves as a precaution so if she were to fall she wouldn’t fall all the way but instead get caught by the last bolt and or draw.
