Panorama

This image is a lot different than most of the photographs I have posted on my blog, but it was something I wanted to give a shot for my Digital II class. The assignment was simply "Spaces". I did a series of several images of this character appearing as a ghost image lit by car headlights. My aim was to create a narrative where the purpose and intent of the character was questioned and unsure. This was my most successful of the series.

12/2/11

This is the last image of the Saks Fifth Avenue shoot that I think I'm going to post, because it's the final of the images that I really liked out of them. Although I liked this image, I didn't end up using it for my final because it was a little more narrative than fashion, and didn't showcase the clothing as much as they would have liked for a Saks campaign.

11/11/11

Last Friday on 11/11/11 was the fashion show collaboration between Saks Fifth Avenue, Nuovo Salon, Dior Cosmetics, and Ringling College of Art and Design. It is where we got to show the community, as well as our family and friends all of the hard work we've put into our collaborative assignment with Saks throughout the past month or so. Held at Michael's On East in Sarasota, FL our photographic work hung beside the fashion show held by Saks. With approximately 300 people in attendance, the show was a major succes, and very well received. I am so grateful that my parents were able to travel from Massachusetts to see the show. The night marked a milestone for all of us from Ringling who worked closely with Saks and that we are now all able to put on our resumes that we have worked with such a big time company within the fashion industry. Here are both of my images that were on display Friday night, both printed 24 inches by 36 inches.

Saks 5th Avenue

Throughout the semester, my fashion photography class here at Ringling has been collaborating with Saks Fifth Avenue in using their clothing and accessories for our photo shoots. All clothing for our final assignment was borrowed from the Sarasota Saks store, the makeup was done by Dior makeup artists, and the hairstyling was done by local, Nuovo salon. The theme of my entire shoot was a modernized film noire theme and environment. A week from today on 11/11/11 we're having a fashion show sponsored by Saks where each of us in the class is having two of our prints blown up 2feetx3feet to be on display that night. This image wasn't chosen for my final two, but it's one of my favorites for the shoot, so I wanted to post it first, and the ones I am using after the fashion show. Model: Samantha G

Oops

I just realized that I never uploaded the third image of the drowning series. Even though it's the last one I'm posting it actually belongs second in the series. Thanks again to my lovely model, Sarah, who was really fun to work with on this one.

California

Several weeks ago, one of my teachers sent out an email for a call-for-entries for a exhibition titled The Dark Side with the theme being all night photography. The show is going to take place next weekend (opening night being October 22, 2011) in Los Angeles, California and even though I'm not even remotely near that area I decided to submit three pieces to see if they would get into the show. Two days ago I was informed that out of 46 pieces being chosen nationwide I would be having two of my images appearing in the show! Even though I took these two images about a year ago, I thought I would post them here with the excitement of them getting into the show. Enjoy

Photo 2

Well after the better part of the afternoon editing, this is another image from the high fashion shoot. It's actually going to be the last of the series when displayed, I just haven't edited the middle image yet. The first image is it before any editing, followed by another version with the majority of the editing already taken place. I'll be wrapping this one up on Tuesday, and I'll post the final piece at that time.

High Fashion photo 1

This was my first shoot using a model aside from a classmate of mine and I don't think it could have gone any better. This shoot in general was the most fun and exciting one I have done in a long time and has produced some of my favorite work to date. I'll start off by posting the first image in my series which is probably my favorite so far. Enjoy :)

High Fashion

So over the past two weeks I have been working on a High Fashion shoot for my class, except that instead of the traditional high fashion photograph our teacher wanted us to add a Dadaist twist. Dadaism was the movement where artists challenged and question 'Shat is art?' and subsequently, 'What is fashion, or beauty?' So basically, our assignment was to do a high fashion piece with a un-traditional, avant-garde, approach. It just so happens that the week before she assigned this project I had been experimenting with my camera in my pool (with my underwater camera housing) and thought that a 'drowning-model' photo shoot would be really cool to attempt some time. So instantly, I knew what I would be doing for this assignment, it was just a matter of figuring out the lighting (I wanted to shoot this at night). This assignment will be a series of three photographs, which I am currently editing. I'm about to post one which is done being edited, and the two others are hopefully soon to follow.

Beachwear

So the latest project for my fashion class was focused on 'beachwear'. Being in Florida, the best time of day to photograph a model outdoors is either around sunrise or sunset because the sunlight is warm and soft as apposed to really bright and harsh like it is during the middle of the day. That being said, this photograph was taken around 8am when the sun was still low in the sky, but high enough to provide plenty of light. Originally I wasn't thrilled with my results, but I have found several shots throughout this shoot that I do like (including this one). I may try shooting beachwear again sometime, but my teacher was pleased with my results so I'm happy for the time-being. Oh, and thanks to my lovely model, Tori, for getting up way too early on a Saturday and deal with the many curious beach passers-by. 

Last of the high key series

So here's the last of my high key photos from the shoot with Lisa that I'm going to post on here. It's still not at the complete point I'd like it to be, but since I'm not handing it in for an assignment I'm taking a little break. So far so good though, just a few touch-ups to go. Enjoy 

Here's another shot from my high key shoot with Lisa, still a work in progress, but I figured I'd put up where it's at right now. One more in progress to come shortly

Disclaimer

I just want for any of my viewers to be aware that these are all jpeg images that I am posting. What this means is that they're a low-quality image. In many of these photos (such as the last one posted) the colors and tones are a lot richer in saturation and clarity in print and other file types than they are displayed on here.

Lisa- High Key Lighting

This is my latest project for my Fashion class. The assignment was called high key lighting which is a really bright white light, with a little bit of a washed out feeling. It's supposed to look really clean and in my opinion, sophisticated. I used Lisa as my model because of her fair skin and played up her eye makeup. Although her red hair is not typical for high key lighting (where blondes are usually used) I don't believe it became a distraction for the type of lighting used.

Digital Imaging

For our digital imaging class we had to re-create a photograph by using 30 or more images of "flat" objects that we shot ourselves. For my base image I used a photograph taken by John Scanlan who is an amazing landscape photographer. I would strongly recommend everyone look into his work even if you don't like landscape photography as a whole (I typically don't, but I can't help but loving his work).  The first image is his photograph, and the second is my re-creation of it that is comprimised of around 100 layers.

Chitra- Beauty Portrait

So for my first assignment in Fashion we had to do a beauty shot which is basically a close up portrait of the face. I wanted to steer away the classic make-up ad-esque beauty portrait so I used my friend Chitra, as my model and had her wear some of her traditional Hindu clothing. Considering it's the first image where I did a lot of retouching on the face, I think it's pretty successful.

First Post

Okay, so after a year of saying that I was going to start a blog I'm finally doing it. I'll be posting current work (both in progress and then finished). If there is ever any work that I post as inspiration that is not mine personally I will give credit for to the photographer, otherwise all work posted is my own.