Yesterday one of my former co-workers, Jamie Pickett was very generous with her time and posed for my newest Advanced Color Imaging assignment. This assignment’s goal was to use the photographic lighting equipment called Alien Bees. It was rather open ended aside from the lighting requirement. Spring is bursting into
Yesterday I went on a little photo excursion/lesson in the style of Tyler Dean King, a fellow photographer friend of mine. He is incredibly talented with portraits particularly with more editorial and fashion feel. I’ve been having quite a bit of issues with my own portraits so he offered to
Over my spring break I drove 9.5 hours to my hometown Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin to spend time with my mom and grandparents. I drove all by my lonesome but the weather was beautiful so it was easy sailing. I wanted to make sure that I still was productive over break
I had a few images left of Seth Clock’s Portrait shoot that I hadn’t had the time to edit. Between summer school and work I was working hard to just edit enough to turn in for class! Most days I would come home with 700-1000 images per shoot to sort
Yesterday I did a photo shoot with my co-worker Mary Williams. We shot out at an abandoned what we thought would of been strip mall sort of place. It was an interesting place to shoot…but as soon as we pulled up there was a no trespassing–trespassers would be prosecuted and
Learned how to shoot high key in the studio this past Thursday! It was a lot of fun and Anneka’s brother, Seth was kind enough to join us for the day to be our model. He had a variety of outfits so we changed things up a bit with outfits
Today we worked with lighting ratios focusing on 3:1 and messing around to see the differences of light quality in the face and hair with different lighting ratios. We also learned how to put up new backgrounds and use gels with the photogenic monolights. For some reason we were a
Today in the studio we worked with the photogenic monolights to produce one light images. We also worked with the beauty dish, grid spots, alien bees, and several backdrops. We learned about broad and short light and how to pose a person so the light flatters their face. It was
Summer School has begun, which means you all get some new photos to keep up with from week to week from me! This week my portrait class started with Jerry Schmidt. Two of my favorite photo gals are in the class too–Holly Hildreth and Anneka Clock. Our class consists of
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