{"id":139468,"date":"2023-07-10T10:21:38","date_gmt":"2023-07-10T14:21:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=139468"},"modified":"2023-11-22T08:51:56","modified_gmt":"2023-11-22T13:51:56","slug":"staying-focused","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2023\/07\/10\/staying-focused\/","title":{"rendered":"Staying focused"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">For Bethany Althauser, <a href=\"https:\/\/liberal-arts.wright.edu\/social-sciences-and-international-studies\/bachelor-of-arts-in-communication-studies\">communications studies major<\/a> at Wright State University, a great photograph is one that captures good composition and genuine emotion in a single picture.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Althauser should know. She began snapping photos with a 35 mm camera as a child and a decade later started her own company, <a href=\"https:\/\/linktr.ee\/bethanyelizabethphotography?fbclid=IwAR3qFFWvSi9fshVO-jo4IPscTKkRJ5sRw1Skin8x2gq-PCx-Pzm7iV4cfEk\">Bethany Elizabeth Photography LLC<\/a>, when she was a junior at Anna High School.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cMy first client was actually a doctor\u2019s office in Sidney,\u201d said Althauser. \u201cThey wanted updated portraits of their workers, and I only charged $25.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Althauser picked up her first digital camera when she was in fifth grade and began competing in 4-H still photography contests as a teen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now a sophomore at Wright State, she has been working as a professional photographer for three years. She specializes in engagement, wedding and senior high school photography.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_139476\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?attachment_id=139476\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-139476\" class=\"wp-image-139476 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2023\/07\/65762_030-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-139476\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bethany Althauser, communications studies major at Wright State, started her photography business while in high school. (Photo by Erin Pence)<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI really feel like my degree in communications is going to help my photography business by making me a better communicator during sessions when I\u2019m trying to communicate with my clients,\u201d said Althauser.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Althauser attended Thomas More University in Kentucky for a semester before transferring home to Wright State. Since she enrolled at Wright State, she has been able to expand her business.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cI love being close to home,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Althauser\u2019s future plans are to grow her photography business and work in marketing or social media for another company besides her own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Bethany Althauser, communications studies major at Wright State, a great photograph is one that captures good composition and genuine emotion in a single picture. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2023\/07\/10\/staying-focused\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":139474,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[722,2037,727,747,715,4855,4298,2061,720],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academics","category-arts-scene","category-homepage-photos-and-video","category-liberal-arts","category-news","category-social-sciences-and-international-studies","category-student-profile","category-undergraduate","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139468"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":139545,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139468\/revisions\/139545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}