During our shoot-out event I also took the opportunity to make photographs of the girls individually. These were some of my favorite images I made.
In this first image I used only natural lighting. This was a hallway on the outer wall of the event center that had light streaming in from a few different areas.
In this second photograph I was using a friend's speed light in a completely dark room. I was pretty impressed with how well my model was light with the speed light.
This photograph was also made in the outer hall stairwell utilizing only the natural light that was available.
In my image of my modeling singing I did use studio lighting to light my model.
More natural lighting on my model in the outer stairwell.
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.
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!
My son and his girlfriend are seniors in high school this year and I was able to photograph them both for this event. I'm so grateful for the help of a good friend and classmate, Cory Henderson, and his wife, Candice. We utilized the beautiful sun we had here in the pacific northwest, along with two strobes. I didn't really think that strobes were necessary when photographing outdoors, but I am so happy with how these images look.
Prior to this quarter I had no knowledge of how to create a
video.This was an effort for sure!I got it figured out pretty well; iMovie was
the source I used to create it.This program
is fairly simple to use; I was able to figure it out without any assistance. I had to use the same program to create the video for my studio design course last week.
One of the challenges I faced was that a lot of the video I
recorded was far more than what I needed for this project.Clipping it down to meet the 2-3 minute requirement
took me a very long time to do because there were several things in each one that
I wanted to keep to share.I am excited
to have learned this new skill and to see other ways I can use it in the future.I think it’s fun seeing how the videos can
enhance your still photos in a new way by seeing what goes into making these
images.We see photographs and don’t
necessarily think about the lighting or the time that was needed to make the
images.I have a better understanding
now of the production of these images and by seeing them put together with the video
helped that knowledge.
This studio class was challenging for me.I learned a lot, but I also know that I still
have so much more to learn.Ratios are
still a hard concept for me to understand; time will improve that.I also learned that my notes need to be
better throughout the quarter. I am aware that I am a procrastinator, it’s something
that I drive myself crazy with, but I need to do better in future
quarters.I am hoping that if the
assignment requirements are the same, like the blog style formatting record,
and the video short, that I can create the documents as we go through each
class so that I am not trying to sort all of the things at one time, creating
undue stress on myself.
I enjoyed learning how to photograph people and still life better.This was something I had wanted to improve on
when I began the class.I am by no means
done with learning, I hope to be a lifelong learner, but I’m glad I have a
better understanding of lighting and posing/positioning subjects/objects.
I am looking forward to this next quarter of classes where
we will be learning more about color and doing some location photography.
I live in the Inland Northwest and am blessed to be surrounded by nature. There are several rivers within 120 mile radius that are overflowing with raging waters from spring runoff. One such river in Washtucna, Washington bears a beautiful 200' waterfall. Within our community of Spokane, Washington we have a gorgeous Spokane River running through downtown.
This video was made for an assignment in my photographic design course to help us learn more about a place that was important to us. It was a great experience to see our community and recognize the beauty surrounding us. I chose "naturescape" as my theme for this. I love to walk out the door and see mountains to the north, find the rivers all around us, trees that surround our homes, and deer walking through neighborhoods. My home is a gorgeous place indeed.
Please enjoy a little taste of what eastern Washington has to offer.
We are rounding out the end of this quarter and I have several projects and portfolios to complete. One of these projects was to create a slideshow for my Photographic Design class of some of the images taken for this class.
This class was about creativity and a lot about the design elements and principles that help to make great images. It was hard for me to always be looking for the elements, but I do find myself seeing them more now. I am sure this becomes second nature after one does it for awhile. Some of these images aren't my best, but they were some that had some meaning to me, so even if not the best, I included them.
I often go out photographing with a great group of new friends thanks to this photography program. There's so much fun to be had when photographing with friends and everyone has a different skill set so we learn from each other as well. I'm looking forward to the many ideas we have for other "field trips"!
