Fashion

I had the opportunity to photograph a classmate friend's roommate for a special event our school holds each year at a local event center.  Randi, the friend, was more than happy to oblige us as we made multiple images of her.  I love how a few of these turned out.  Each of these was made using only the ambient lighting streaming through the windows in this lovely hall.

Film Noir

Each year my program, Spokane Falls Community College, rents the Riverside Event Center and we students, along with instructors, are able to do some real location photography.  The goal is to give us the opportunity to use our creative vision to create various photo shoots, all ranging from large production to small production shoots.  My friend, Cory, and I arranged for two large production shoots.  We find models for these shoots, use a hair and make-up school to get our models all ready, and even have to put out costumes together.  Thankfully we have the assistance of our local Civic Theater that guides us with our costumes.

The second of these shoots was a film noir type image.  Cory headed up this shoot and I assisted.  We had a lot of fun capturing these, but it was a process for sure!  We recruited three of our fellow classmates to model for us, along with my daughter.  Our vision was a male piano player with three femme fatales vying for his attention.  The photo below is one of the images I captured in-between shots that Cory was taking.  We were getting all set up while we waited for our final lady to finish getting her hair and makeup done.

In addition to working with Cory for the group large production image, I wanted to take advantage of the lights to capture some other images I had in mind with our ladies.  I have a friend who has a 3D printer and asked him to make me an old time microphone (if you want more info on this let me know and I can connect you with him).  

These images are a start, I know I still have much to learn, but I enjoyed working on them!

Diptychs

School this quarter has kept us hopping with all that we are learning.  One assignment that we completed in our Photographic Design course challenged me a bit, until I was able to wrap my mind around how things could connect.

Diptychs, two images that are placed together that can show opposition or contrasts, or two objects that may not make a lot of sense when displayed on their own, but when displayed together can make perfect sense.

I took the image of the columns outside the Old Masonic Temple in downtown Spokane thinking they would make a great image, but it was more work for me to figure out what other image would display well with it.  The stage ropes were above and to the side of the stage at the old Masonic temple and looked so cool that I knew I had to do something with them.  I combined them with no space between the photographs because it make them form a triangle of sorts, but the lines from both images go well together.  I think it also speaks of organization and order.

Diptych of stage ropes and columns

The hallway picture held so much light in it that I thought it would combine well with the silhouette image of the girl with the darks and lights all coming together.  We often think of a hallway as darker, at least I do, so the image of the light and airy hallway was a perfect pairing against her silhouette was striking to me.

Diptych - girl's silhouette and light hallway

I now find myself looking for other subjects that can be placed together to give deeper meaning to their combined image.