final

Funny faces

crooked

gimme a bunny face

now a moose!

now an alligator! What?!

lets get a little sideways

I asked for funny... got a little scary

and then a little more

and then it was complete!

lighting diagram

Where the yellow light is- that's my fill light. I meant to type that but I was talking about key lights as I was talking and typed key instead.

fitnesss portfolio shots

edits:

Depth of Field and Motion shots

Depth of field down a road in the early morning sun

Footballll!

Sky full of lighters?

Nut

The ninja dance with lights

Depth of field. Literally.

We had joy we had fun, we had seasons in the sun

This is my absolute favorite motion shot. A car and a motor bike passed in front of me.

I had a lot of fun with this homework assignment. I wish I would have had more personal time to go out and find more places to shoot, but this is definitely a style I would like to hold onto!

Andrew Pearce

Absolutely beautiful. I don't know what his style is called, but I want it. This is the kind of photographer I hope to one day be like. Seriously.
Please go check him out here-> http://www.krop.com/andrewpearce/

and this is an example of his work

Scarabuss

This guy is amazing. I don't tend to lean toward photos that have human subjects, but this guy can take a person and make them an additive to the environment instead of stifling the environment for the person. His shots are awesome! Check him out here >> http://scarabuss.deviantart.com/

example of his work:

Depth of Field

Recently we've been talking about depth of field, motion and color. I've been reeping pictures as often as possible and will start the process today of selecting my favorites to play with and enhance. So I don't actually have any of my own work to post at the current time, but until then- here's some examples of depth of field, something I am most definitely interest in!

my depth of feild

motion during a pass

was going for kind of a sepia feel

but this one turned out alot better

ALPHA BETA OMEGA- PARTY LIKE A ROCKSTAR

So to make my point perfectly clear, I wanted to post this picture of a man who had tripped and couldn't get up so he slept outside. Okay.. so that's a little white lie to protect his dignity. He actually was at a party and passed out drunk. One of his buddies took the picture and its a great example for me to use.

No. That's a lie too. This is actually a picture I pulled after google searching the words "a man that fainted". He is an actor showing the effects of a drop in blood sugar.

Now.. who's telling the truth and who is telling the lie? 

At the Cafe, Chez Fraysse by Robert Doisneau

A picture is worth a thousand words. We've all heard the expression used, but what is it exactly that photographs are trying to convey without using text to state their point? This man, Robert Doisneau I've come to believe upon looking at some of his other work, simply had a thing for couples, or pairings, or even just twos and evens instead of odds. If the content of the picture will reflect the character of the photographer, then one might could say that he simply liked the atmosphere of bars.

So much insight, and yet it goes nowhere. He had taken the picture of the couple because he fancied the translation of their relationship on film. And yet after that this picture was used for an anti-alcohol campaign and a prostitution claim. Had I read the paper handed out in my photography class that Gisele Freund wrote about Doisneau's couple and it first stated that the man was a well-on-his-way mobster in New York city with a chip on his shoulder and a woman in his eye, I would have glared at the photograph with a harder judgement toward the gritty lifestyle. But because he stated the preface to the photo being taken, and that the pair were a normal couple Robert had fancied in a cafe in Paris, I was taken aback at the accusations of the woman being a prostitute.

A picture is worth a thousand words, but someone else may be shoving them down your throat. This innocent composition can be skewed and perverted if the veiwer lets it, just like the man I made an example of could be a drunk if you wanted him to be. It is not the job of the photographer to make the lifestyle of the subject clean cut and well known. Life has grey areas and from grey areas come the beauty of diversity. Without it, life would be dull. So I must ask you the question, do you read the caption in bold text that is placed on the name tag under the photo, or look at the photo that is vague and nondescript first?

Take heed, yon veiwer, your eyes can be decieving, but the power of suggestion is just that- power over your opinions.



dop and motion

Black and White photography homework

I would like to have this one critiqued.

The very first set I did for this assignment just didn't feel good enough. They were really really great images, but I didn't feel like they were the best I could do. Then I went out on another day and got these five. They were exactly what I had in mind when I was told what was expected of the five images. It was really cool.