Monthly Archives: December 2010

Gainesville Fashion Photography  :UF

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Fashion photography in the Gator nation

This was a really cool assignment, we got to go to the photo studio at the Gainesville Sun to shoot in a real studio and shoot fashion. We not only had great lighting equipment but we also had a beautiful model who was really patient, because she modeled for us for three hours non stop. I thought that this was a good assignment to save for last because it kind of incorporated almost every aspect of lighting and photography that we have learned this semester into one assignment. I also liked it because we kind of worked together as a class to get some pretty cool pictures and because we were all shooting during the same evening we got to see how other people handle the situation and can learn from what worked well for them.

Most of the photos that I shot utilize three lights to really give some nice lighting to the model. When I was shooting this assignment I was kind of thinking of the movie Titanic and how I could try to capture some of the elegance captured in the movie. I think that I was successful at capturing this elegance. I guess that the only things that I had trouble with in completing this assignment is the fact that I have really no idea of how to pose a model for pictures, it just so happened that Heather was able to hit the right poses to get what I envisioned in my head without much direction. 

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Food

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For the food assignment I brought in Dunkin Doughnuts, which was a good idea because they were pretty good. They were nice and colorful and when they were in the box and I shot them with my 50mm f1.8 lens wide open I was able to get some layers which is always nice. This was an interesting assignment because you are trying to make a rather boring subject interesting and irresistible to the consumer viewing them.

Environmental portrait

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I shot these photos at the bike shop that I work at, which is not journalistic, but a bike shop is interesting. Their are lots of cool tools and lets face it bikes are cool to shoot through giving a picture layers and framing the subject with the frame. I was lucky enough to convenes my coworker Brett to allow me to shoot him one day after work while he was fixing his cyclocross bike.

I set up one light and shot these kind of like I did when I was shooting my single light portrait except these were not posed. I think that It gives them a different look compared to what I have been shooting in class thus far.,

Bounce flash, on and off camera

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The bounce flash assignment was to me he hardest assignment of the semester, especially the on camera bounce flash. Their were just so many variables like distance from your subject, what you are bouncing off of,how far away what you are bouncing off of is from you and your subject. It took a couple of attempts but I think that I finally got it. 

In this assignment I shot what I think is my favorite picture, the one of Jocie sitting on the bench reading a news paper. This is my favorite because to me it really tells a story, like she is waiting for some one but has almost given up hope that they will ever show up. Plus you are able to imagine what she is waiting for instead of knowing, she might be waiting on a train, someone form a meeting, some one who is now coming, we just don’t know 

Painting with light revisited

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This was my favorite assignment of the semester, it allowed me to control almost every aspect of the shoot and allowed me to be very creative and think outside of the box. This was probably the most time consuming assignment of the semester too,I shot this over two nights taking a total of about 10 hours. Needless to say I had some very patient models. I guess that the reason that this shoot took so long is because each picture took 30 seconds to take which is a pretty long time to shoot one picture.

Painting with light

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Magic in the air.

Two is better than one

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just when I thought that it was hard to get a satisfying picture using one off camera light we added another one, making it a two light portrait. This was a pretty fun one to shoot because using two lights gave us more control with exposure and making the subject pop from the back ground more. This was also cool because we shot at Kanapaha Botanical Gardens in Gainesville, Fl. if you haven’t been their you should go. It is one of those gems that is hidden in plain sight in Gainesville.

To shoot these photos I partnered up with Lauren Joose from my class, who is also a Nikon shooter. This was good because our cameras use what Nikon calls their creative lighting system (CLS) to trigger the flashes. The only trouble is that the CLS works on inferred light like a t.v. remote, so you are limited by line of sight when doing it this way. I had to compromise some good shots to get a shot that was not as good just so that the flashes would fire. I think that Lauren was having the same problems too.

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