more finals?

Yeah, way more actually. I took a few shots the past few days that I would really love to share with you- so here it goes.


This is my "home depot" shot - I love it, but that's just me.

This is my warm on cool shot - thanks again Taylor for being an amazing model!

Three shots left! Self portrait is up next :D

Finals

The past two weeks we have all been working crazy hours on our final assignments for phase 1 and I am very happy to report that I'm halfway done! I wanted to share with you all what I've done so far and hopefully get some of you to model for my last few shots ;)


Here are a few :


Frozen Motion

 Motion

 Product in an environment that "makes sense" haha

Black and white portrait of my hand - this might be reshot, I'm not sure yet

The shots I have left include:

My self portrait

Outside B&W portrait

Warm on Warm portrait expressing emotion

If anyone reading this in the area would like to model for any of these pictures let me know! If you aren't a student, you will get a print for free :D

Pressure

You would think that I would be feeling this immense amount of pressure this week but really, it's just not there. Maybe that means that I am not dedicated enough or maybe that I am just too relaxed of a person, who knows. Today was a great day either way though - I got to work with the lovely Kayly Orr (of no relation to John Orr, whoever that is) and we knocked this portrait assignment out! Here are the great results - I hope you enjoy them :)

Split Lighting

 Rembrandt/ 45-Degree short lighting

 Rembrandt/ 45-degree broad lighting

 Loop lighting

 Butterfly lighting

 Split lighting + a reflector

 Rembrandt + reflector

 Loop + Reflector

Thanks Kayly and Justin for helping me catch up from being sick! I think these turned out really successful...now it's time to work on the final for phase 1! ahh! 

Have a great Sunday everyone, GO BILLS!

NYC oh dear.

It was a rough trip but I survived and still have an ongoing, life time lasting love for the greatest city in this whole entire universe. NYC always delivers in the giggles tho, including this spectacular man (name unknown) who was so kindly yelling at all the people walking by, letting them know how corrupt our generation is, as if we didn't previously know that as human kind develops, so does our perverse nature etc (I find myself enjoying these facts about my generation, it keeps things fresh) but yes, I happened to snap a quality image of our new friend - I think he's someone to watch out for on the tv priest circuit ;)

These are the other pictures I took while roaming Times Square with my friends Eduardo, Sabrina and Kayla - We saw some interesting things that night, all of these images below were shot at my hip level or slightly higher, I didn't see any of them til the train ride back that night - gotta love street photography :)

 The next two images are my favorite of the night. I love the red in the stairs and the clarity of the reflections!

 World Champs - quit the hatin' ;)

The next two are "typical" new york shots but I really enjoy them.

 This is the Path train system that goes from Manhattan to Hoboken NJ and back - SUPER convenient!

 And with that, readers, I must go work on my Phase One final - have a good one :)

Nyquil and long hours

So I'm about to leave school - finally! I wanted to make this post before I did so though because I'm SO excited about this picture I just took of my friend Karin and her boyfriend Andrew (they're both GREAT sports and I'm super grateful to both of them) so here's the pic...I think it's pretty great. haha :)

PS I am a huge fan of miss Kayt Collins and I love her more than life.


Have a great night kiddies, good luck at graduation tomorrow section s! Congrats! :D

pie and cider

I don't have any pictures to share with you lovely people today but I do have a lot to be thankful for. My family just left, with my sister crying in the back seat :( but I am so grateful to have a family like them. They brought me some really useful things such as - Q-tips, shampoo, COOKIES, pie, cider and cake donuts, and a MACBOOK bahhhh. If you didn't know, up until this point I've been using a Dell (boooo) but right now this blog is being posted on a PowerBook G4 (not the newest but hey, it has an apple on the front!). Above all else though, I was just so relieved to see my family. It'd been just over two months since the last time we were all together and that is a long time for me to be away from my sister who is the light of my life. I would like to use this opportunity to thank my parents for always being there and supporting me and helping me through this process of school. I don't think better parents exist out there. I am truly blessed. Anyways, are any of you readers going to do that assignment I gave you in the last post? I hope so! It honestly opens up your eyes to the colors around you (especially now that it's fall) and is honestly just a fun exercise. Let me know how it goes :) tootaloo !

It's been a while

It's FRIDAY! As happy as I seem to be that the week is over, it was actually a jam packed, super productive week at the 'job'. Monday we had a great guest speaker Gregor Halenda ( http://www.gregorhalenda.com/ ) who, despite some technical difficulties, gave a great lecture and (I might be speaking for everyone but who cares?) really inspired us. I enjoyed listening to all his stories about shoots and I loved the idea of his video vacation! A really awesome guy all around ! Then we got into some cool stuff during the week like studio set ups and how to unzoom DT's iPhone 4. Wednesday we got to go on a field trip to a really cool place called Shelburne Falls. Our assignment was in COLOR! finally! We were exploring cool and warm colors and what happens with different combinations. This is how I translated the assignment -

Cool on cool

Cool on warm

Warm on cool

Warm on warm

Thank you to Garrett and Sabrina for being patient models! Overall it was a really great week - I can't wait to see my family who's coming to visit tomorrow! To everyone back home who's reading these, I miss you too! Tonight a few of us are gonna go see Paranormal Activity 2 - don't judge me readers - I saw the first one, I have to give this one a shot. Besides, the baby looks pretty scary in the ads! I'll let you guys know how it goes in my next post. In the meantime, I wanna challenge you to look at your surroundings a little differently this weekend and to take a picture that fits into one of the above categories - just make sure it's a picture that not only fulfills the color aspect, but it's an image that you'll want to look at a week later hanging up on a wall in a doctor's office. Keep it real internetarians.