Behind the Scenes

This collaborative photo shoot was my first photo shoot with good lights, a model, and a team working together to make the shots work. I loved the atmosphere and really enjoyed the clinical white light of the flash kit. Here are some of the photos I took behind the scenes. I think they are interesting photos, as photos, rather than documents. The air of collaboration and community is quite evident as we were helping each other throughout the day. I also think that they are effective as art to any audience, as the aparatus is interesting and many dynamic compositions are possible. I have always loved watching fashion tv for the photo shoot snipits. The energy of accomplishing a photo shoot in an efficient manner has always been fascinating and glamorous for me. Setting up, finding the right angle for a shot, focusing, shooting, directing - a photo shoot is art in the process as much as the outcome is art.



Collaboration Photos



I am SO impressed at the quality of 4 x 5 prints!! The detail in the fur of Kitty (that is her name) is amazing. For the portrait of our collaboration, I am fairly sure I am going to use the lower left photo. It has the best composition and focus of these 4 photos. I have to learn to be more careful with the film holders as well, as there is a light leak here..



I would crop the original photo to look something like this. I want the focus to be on the cat and not background information.

Double exposures... irritating because it's not what I had aimed for, but interesting none the less! The echoing effect displays time and movement in a unique way.



This doubexposure is especially intrestin o me becaus Brenna's pointe shoes shot as well as my high heels shot are both well exposed. It shows the architecture of both ideas.



Vanity, Glamour, Pink

The color this week was pink, and I was very interested with trying my hand and eye at cosmetic still life. I was going for a commercial feel, drawing inspiration from magazine ads. Unfortunatly, I didn't think to rent a lighting kit, so the light is not as artificial as I wanted it to be, and I didn't have a clinical white surface to work on.