Studio Lighting

At the end of last week we took a trip, as a class, to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston to see the Avedon exhibit.  It was an amazing show, and I highly recommend that you go a see it if possible!  Here are a few pictures from the night.

All this week we are working with light.  Today we set up studio lighting and a table top seamless backdrop.  We then took pictures of shoes as if we were trying to sell the product.  I really enjoyed shooting all day!  Tomorrow we are doing a "bag shot".  We have to set up a scene to look like someone just dropped their bag.  The contents of the bag need to tell a story as well.  

Thats all for tonight, but I'll leave you with a picture from the shoe shoot!

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Going Big

More printing all day today.  We finished up our color test prints and printed a final version on a 13x19 sheet, that we have the option to matte if we like.  Now we are working on creating a black and white image.  However there are a thousand different ways you can create a black and white image, so it is not as simple as you would think it would be.

Tonight after school some of the people from class are heading to the Museum of Fine Arts to see a photography exhibit  showcasing some of the work by the famous fashion photographer, Avedon.  I'm really excited to see this and will definitely post some pictures!

I'm leaving you with an image of the printing room where everyone is crowded around the printer, waiting for their prints.

Printing

All this week we are learning the correct way to print photographs.  Its a lot of printing an image, running down the hallway to a room filled with about 10 HUGE printers, sticking the print under a special light that is neutral in color, and running back down the hall to tweak a tiny bit of the image and repeating the whole process.  But in the end you have really beautiful images to show for it.  By Thursday we will have two 13x19 prints, matted, one color and one black and white.

No images today since we aren't shooting at all this week in class.  I might venture out after class sometime, but tomorrow we are heading to the MFA after class to look at an exhibit.  I'll post images of the final prints on thursday.   :)

To the Zoo!

This past weekend two of my classmates and I went to the Stoneham Zoo.  It was terribly cold, but we still had a lot of fun.  The only sad thing was that the snow leopard wasn't out.  There were plenty of other big animals though and many that I had never seen or knew they existed.  It was a smaller zoo but definitely worth the visit.

Here is a picture I caught of these cute little goats with pot bellies :)

Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Today in class we worked on using masking layers in photoshop.  As an exercise we were told to go out and photograph two of our classmates standing next to each other.  We then took each person and switched their heads.  This, of course, quickly deteriorated into everyone putting each other's heads into funny situations, combining facial features of two people to make their "baby", and by the end of class most everyone was laughing their heads off (haha no pun intended...)


No photo in today's post tho... while they are funny they don't exactly exemplify my best work haha.

Instead I'll leave you with a picture I took last night using the fish eye lens (15mm 2.8) that I borrow from school.  I love the extreme distortion!

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Back to School

Back at school after a long weekend :)  It was so nice out today, but by the time school got out and I got back from the store it was almost dark ><

All this week we are pretty much sitting in the computer room working in Photoshop so might not upload as many pictures.  But here is a photo from my the trip my sister and I went on to the Caribbean. It was AMAZING.

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Drying Jeans

Went out walking around today to take photos and ran into this porch.  Someone had washed their jeans but didn't have a dryer apparently.  I like the old school method of drying, made for a great picture!

New Website

Hey everybody!  I have a new website via Livebooks that I really like.

Its http://breannamoore.sites.livebooks.com

in a few days that should change to Breannamoorephotography.com!  I'll be posting updates on shoots that I'm doing in and out of school, along with projects that I'm working on.

However, no shots today, its been raining all day!