And a Few Weeks Later....

Hey Everybody!

Wow, I've been a bad blogger... again.  Let me do a quick recap of the last few weeks.  Since I last posted I have had an environmental portraiture class which we went to many locations around Waltham and Boston, working with a portable studio.  We ended up shooting half a day at the State House down town which is BEAUTIFUL.  One of the prettiest buildings I have ever seen.  We also worked for a half day at the book store next door to school.  The week after that we had a business class where we created a business plan, which contained a budget, marketing ideas, and goals for years one, two, and five.  That whole week we didn't shoot anything, so I don't have anything to post.  Finally, this week we are working on Photo Illustration.  Any thing that you see in advertising (magazines, newspapers, websites) that have images that have been Photoshoped for a specific purpose or message is a photo illustration.  And any week where we are working mostly in photoshop is a good week for me! haha.  The first project we did was: "Do something impossible with your phone", so I put it into the back of my instructors head.  I also had the great pleasure of photographing a Rolls-Royce Phantom for my final project, and let me tell you, that is a NICE car.  Afterwards I photographed Kerry in the studio and used images of trees that I already had to combine it into the final image.

Hope everybody is having a good week!  Hang in there Spring is almost here! :)

B

Hannah and Tanya setting up to shoot at the State House.

And if I were a graphic design artist the caption would read: Put the excitement back into luxury cars.

Have a good weekend!

Hello Again

Hey everybody!  Sorry no post last week, but I haven't had a spare moment til now!

This week and last week were (again) messed up due to snow storms.  Man, we just keep getting slammed with snow over and over again!   Anyway, last week we worked with speed lights (They are the big flashes that go on top of cameras)  When you think of flash photography, it usually isn't very pretty... until you get the flash unit off the camera body.  Then you can make it look like $5,000 worth of studio equipment!  The trick is to have more than one flash linked up together and fire at the same time.  Then you can add in things like umbrellas or softboxes to soften and spread out the light.  We also learned and experimented with using very long exposures in complete darkness and firing the flash several times to freeze what was going on in the room.  The products can very widely depending on what you do, but once you get the hang of speed lights the options are endless!

This week we are working with portraits outside the studio.  So doing them at peoples homes, outside, anywhere but a traditional studio.  Too bad the weather was so bad we could only go out for a couple of hours total the whole week.  But regardless I also learned a lot about the business side of portraiture.  I just can't wait to get out of school and hit the ground running!

As always, here are some shots from the past two weeks.  Enjoy!

B

(These two are examples of using a long exposure in the dark and firing the flash several times through out it.) :)