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.