fill assignment

For the fill portion of the assignment I went to peace park, where I had shot part of my direct flash assign because I remembered when I had tried to shoot there before that it cast a lot of shadows with all the trees. I found this guy, Shane, taking a smoke break on the bridge and struck up a conversation with him, mainly because he had a hat on. For my select, without flash, his face was completely dark. It was lunchtime and the sun was really bright. I tried direct flash on him to fill the shadows under his hat but didn’t like the way it looked on his skin. On the select, I used my hand to bounce flash into his face. I wanted to leave enough shadow to make it believable but lighten them up enough so you could see the detail in his face and the reflection of the leaf he was tearing up in his glasses.

multimedia example

http://www.mediastorm.org/0024.htm

For a class assignment, we were supposed to find a multimedia slideshow that we thought was well done. This is a slideshow that I think is very powerful. It is one that I have seen before and have always remembered, partially because the topic itself is so haunting and partially because the way it was put together makes it even more powerful.

color correction

MU junior Katie Woods talks to a coworker about lunch plans. Katie originally was a photojournalism major but then decided to dual major in forestry and fisheries and wildlife. She currently works in the Division of Applied Social Sciences designing brochures.

This assignment was to get us to learn how to do color correction in camera. This picture was shot under fluorescent lights with a green gel on my flash to get the green tint of the lights out of the picture.

single flash bounced light

Anita, 2, begins to cry when her father tells her it is time for bed.

For this portion of the single flash assignment, I bounced the light of my friend's white shirt about a foot away from me. I didn't get quite as much light on her face as I wanted, but I loved her expression in this picture, which is why I chose this one.

single flash direct light

Isadora Grossman gasps as she watches her mother walk on a slack line all by herself for the first time.

This assignment was done using single direct flash. Originally I had intended to do this assignment indoors, but the weather was so nice that the parks were full of people. In peace park, there was a guy with a couple of slack lines set up and Isadora and her mom came over and tried it out. The sun was on it's way down and their faces were filled with shadows, so I tried to used direct flash to fill the shadows.

glass assignment

This is the lighting diagram. Because the website didn't have the exact props we used, I used a person to fill in the place of where the table and the bottles were and the brick wall represents the door. The light facing the door had an yellow and a pink gel on it.
For this assignment, I worked with Preston to shoot glass in the studio. First, we had to make something that looked like whiskey. The liquid is coke mixed with vinegar, water and a little bit of glycerin. After shooting the glass against a black background, we got bored and decided to go with the wood. We found a door randomly loose floating around in the studio and decided to use that as the backdrop and just put a gel on it because I didn't like the way it looked by itself.

Advanced Techniques: Classmate Portrait

These portraits were taken for the classmate portrait assignment for the Advanced Techniques class. This portrait is of Mallory Benedict. It was taken with two lights, both with vertical soft boxes and a silver reflector. I shot this portrait at f/22 at with a shutter speed of 1/125 at ISO 200. I chose this picture to turn in because I think it represents Mallory well. The peace flag and the whistle she holds represent different non-profit groups, Falling Whistles and Invisible Children, that she is involved in that mean a lot to her. Also, I like this picture because it shows Mallory's serious side.

This is the lighting diagram for the multiple light portrait above.
This is the lighting diagram for the single light portrait below.

This portrait of Mallory Benedict was shot with a single light and a large soft box. This photo was shot at f/22 with a shutter speed of 1/125 and an ISO of 200. I chose this picture for the single light portraits because to me, it summed up the studio experience. This was actually the first picture I shot during our time in the studio, before Mallory was really ready. I think she was preparing herself for the experience because she does not like having her picture taken.

Overall, I think I learned a lot from this assignment. I learned that the studio can be a very frustrating place, but once you get the hang of things, it can be pretty fun too.