Barbershop

A childs creativity

For this project i decided to take photos of my niece drawing. Sadie is not thinking of school the next day or anything else but her art, i love this quality a child possesses. We should all take a page out of her book and take some time each day to do something to live in the moment.

These shots are taken from the other side of the window/ screen.

A Childs Crativity.

On Location Flash

My good friend Mark is always a trust worthy model. This is one of my favorite of the batch.

My mother at her art studio. I was happy how this turned out, another one of my favorites.

Gabe Laduke, local skatepark owner/good friend.

Self portrait..I Like the tiles in this one. This is my "Liebowitz" effect shot but i went to the extreme side of under exposing the background, i feel the low key quality adds to the photo.

Location flash is awesome, i really enjoyed working with it. I think of so many possibilities, and i still need to experiment with it.

Mounted Flash

Back 45 degrees pointed up.

Back 45 degrees flat

Straight W/ Bounce

Straight Up

45 degrees

Front

Catchlights..Web Research

Thierry succeeded in making catchlights interesting!

Broad Lighting

9:1

5:1

3:1

No Fill

The difference of shadow darkness between five to one and nine to one is very subtle.

Short Lighting

9:1

5:1

3:1

No Fill

Butterfly Lighting

9:1

5:1

3:1

No Fill

No Fill is definitely my favorite.

Flowers

I like my flower shot for all the blackness of it. I shot without a reflector to get this effect. It is most noticeable in the big rose, it fades to black at the bottom.

Fruit

I did a Stop Motion for the fruit project. I had a really hard time using the new Imovie program...so its not the best editing. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6E1XbcjFuI

Food

I am more satisfied with my desert shot. Its totally true that an excellent food shot is hard to achieve. Most shots are the same and to make the shot excellent i think it takes new ways to shoot food.

Food

A nice simple shot. Effective DOF.
A different way of looking at you breakfast.

Glass

I enjoyed working in the studio for this assignment. I would have liked to have a more creative shot on black, but I was short on time. I am content with the outcome of the on white shot, breaking that glass was definitely a happy accident.

Egg Project.

The saying, "Having egg on your face", is used when someone is embarrassed because of their own actions. In the above picture, Holden makes makes a fool of himself by saying something he shouldn't have to his first date, Caroline.

Human Body

The second shot is the one i like the most. I posted the first one because it looks like i have a neck face, i found it confusing. The second one is also a self portrait taken next to window light.

Still Life

Here is my window lighting shot. It was actually lit from a sky light in my dining room. My mom was holding up a nice table clothe, and i asked her to drop it so i could capture it in movement. The purpose was to elevate the idea of movement.
This is the shot i took at f/1.8 in the studio. I did a square crop to get ride of the black space on the top.
this is the shot i took at f/11 in the studio. I cropped it because there was unnecessary grey on the bottom, i think the crop worked.

This was a fun assignment. Although i wished my mother would have let me take her sculpture too school, but she doesn't trust me with her nice things. I had to beg her for her scarf and bracelet.

Scanography

This image is one i found on flickr. I really like the effect given to the hands, it looks like they are coming out of water filled with flower pedals. I love this image.
This is my moms boot. I figured i would just scan anything i could find that interested me. This boot is leather and i wanted to get its texture and the crumpled top. I liek the way it turned ou, especially the haziness surrounding it.
I was scared that the light that passed by my face was dangerous for my eyes, so i pulled my hat down covered my face. I made it black and white in photoshop, i also exaggerated the weird pattern on either of my face. On the original scan there were grey, black and white crisscross patterns. I find this looks like i'm trying to block all the  the noise and confusing lines, i really like this effect.

Butterfly lighitng

sorry i didnt realize i hadnt posted it!

Portraits

Split lighting
Short lighting with no fill.
Short with fill.
Creative Portrait. I wanted to shoot my friend James because of his interesting haircut. I tried many ways to get his face and flip of the hair lit, and this was the best shot i got. I like that shadow on top of the eye closest to the camera, and how you can see the catch lights in both eyes. I do believe i could have shot a better image if i had more time with James.
Classic Portrait.