Painting With Light Semester Project

Painting with light proved to be a little bit more difficult when you're subjects already wearing the light. I left the Christmas lights on the whole time but also lit her up with a little LED flashlight. It was weird figuring out where I could shine the flashlight without screwing up the Christmas lights. I think I eventually got it pretty good though. 

Book Cover Semester Project

 

I originally didn't think I was going to like this but I ended up really loving it. I did a million pictures of Cari and only one picture of Kayla. Even though I liked the lighting on Cari's pictures more, Kayla's fit the book cover super well. I'd never used Photoshop up until now and we have a hate/love relationship now. It can help out a buuunch with some stuff but it's also super confusing and can really screw you up if you don't pay attention.

Depth of Field Semester Projects

This was a happy accident I took during Hairspray. It was semi accident semi purposeful. I really liked how there were layers of people up until you got to Ellen. This is one of my favorites.

This picture and the one below are ones I took a while back but I really liked the way they looked. It was a bit harder than I thought because I couldn't ever get the focal point exactly where I wanted it. 

These next three were ones I did in class over a picture I found on the internet. Smith showed me how to use the flash down and off to one side. It was really cool but it took a lot of tries to get what I wanted. 

The black and white picture was originally going to be my book cover but it didn't look enough like the book for me to be satisfied. It was super bright and sunny outside and took soooo long to get it to a point where their hands didn't just look like a big ball of light. I  had the same problem with the picture under this one. They were plant boxes that students were working on and inches above the boxes were these super bright lights. I sort of have a problem with getting lighting correct on the first try but both of these images helped me with that a lot. 

Alex and I had had this idea for a looong time. When we finally did them they turned out much better than I thought they would. Because her face was so close, I had to keep moving to get focused correctly. 

 Hannah Patt and I were talking about DOF pictures the other day and we started playing around with everybody's class rings and this is what came out. It wasn't really a challenge or anything but it was fun.