Business Cards….
February 19, 2009
For this assignment, we had to shoot something for a self promotional post card and business card. It had to be “iconic” and represent our individual photography… This is my image…
More Model Shots
February 19, 2009
For this assignment, our whole class went to an OLD theater in downtown Asheboro. Our instructor had several models lined up for us to shoot, but a couple of them didn’t show up…. This lovely model is actually a classmate that stood in for the no-shows….
Commercial Portraits…
February 9, 2009
For this assignment we had to shoot four commercial portraits, three in a studio and one on location. Here they are.
How to….
February 9, 2009
So now we have to do a how to session… I’m going to explain how I took this
to this
First, I took the base exposure and I under exposed the crap out of it to create the illusion of night.
Next, while keeping the images under exposed, I simply walked around the mailbox with my flash and lit it from various angles and directions….
o.k., I think you get the idea…
Next, I opened all the images in photoshop. I took the first exposure (the really under exposed one) and used it as my base image. I took the rest of the images, using the move tool, and draged them all on top of my base image creating many separate layers. Then, layer by layer… I created a mask layer on each individual layer and painted with black in the areas I wanted to highlight or show. After that, I inverted each specific layer to let the pained areas show through. Again, I did each layer one at a time, layer by layer…. After that, I tweaked the tonal values and added a high pass filter for a punchy contrast effect. And that’s how it was done!
More Jewelry….
February 9, 2009
For this assignment, we had to find an ad in a magazine and attempt to reproduce the image best as possible. I chose an ad for a watch. Here it is.
Another Interview Portrait….
February 2, 2009
This is another image I took to use in my multimedia interview. I used my cannon 30 D and hand held my 580 speedlight just above his head.
Painting Light
January 29, 2009
This is an image from a recent assignment where we had to light an entire room with one small flash/strobe. I walked around the room “painting” light in the areas that I wanted to highlight. 45 images and 6 hours later, this is the final image after merging them all together! It’s actually a pretty cool trick to know!
DESSERT….
January 15, 2009
My latest school assignment. Dessert…. It is what is is!!! Everyone likes different things and has different tastes. Call them “flavors”… Some people read the newspaper while eating dessert, some people read playboy… Who really knows what who reads when… That’s all I’m gonna say….
