Tag: Warrensburg MO

Advanced Color Portrait Assignment #5–Alien Bee (On Location)

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

Portrait Adventures with Tyler Dean King

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

A day with blueberries

I went shopping for prop supplies this weekend and picked up some really nice porcelain measuring cups with blue floral details along with some new linens. I thought they would look nice in a set about blueberry muffins and blueberries. Here are a few images from the shoot. I used

Advanced Color Portrait Assignment #1–Hollywood Lighting

Today I completed my Hollywood lighting assignment and boy does it feel good. My friend Lindsey Barnes was kind enough to take time out of her busy schedule to be my model, and my other friend Mary Williams also made time to be my hair and makeup stylist! We shot

Winter Blues and Antique Blues

Hello all- I’ve been trying to practice using color to bring out small objects particularly in jewelry.  January has always been a month that reminded me of blues and whites so I decided to find some of my favorite unique jewelry that showcased blues and photograph them in a way

Lemon Frosted Snow Ball Cookies

  This weekend I decided to try a new recipe I found in my Martha Stewart Holiday magazine. I chose snowball cookies, which normally call for a frosting made up of fresh ginger. However, I don’t stomach ginger very well so I modified the recipe for lemon. They were an

Portrait #5–3:1 Lighting Ratio

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

Editorial #4 Fashion

For my fourth Editorial assignment I decided to do fashion photography. My friend Alex has a unique style and loves to do hair and make-up so she seemed to be the perfect candidate to model. It helped that she had some experience with fashion runways back in her hometown in

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