Peace Out Rocky

Yesterday was the last day that the Rocky Mountain News would run. It's not just bad news for writers and photographers either. It's a pretty clear reflection of what's happening in America at the moment.

We'll miss you Rocky.

Pain

First cool assignment in DI1 this quarter. We were assigned to present either pain or passion with a photo. We had to have a minimum of four layers in photo shop, blah blah blah.

Cool assignment and I'm pretty happy with the way mine turned out.

Repeat

Pretty simple instructions for this assignment:
-repeat a color
-repeat a shape
-think graphically
-and try for something a little abstract.

Done.

Always

BLAM! "Exactly what I was looking for when I gave this assignment. . . " "See how Gary's just screems?", Said the instructor.

Why yes I do see how it screems!

Fall off baby!

Proof that I'm not wasting 100 grand at AI. The inverse square law will haunt me for the rest of my life, but it's a welcome guest. And most importantly of all--I made a photo of three pears without setting them on fire!

LF&L

As of tomorrow large format and lighting will be over and I'll be in New York for a week hopefully receiving lots of money as xmas presents from my family (rent's due in January).

Victory!!!

Ladies and Gentlemen of the world! (Or maybe just you, Jill, and my mom)

Victory is mine!

I wonder if you'll recall... back, long, long ago in one of my very first blog posts I told you about a light vs. dark assignment in lighting. A photo that had to have three objects in it and every dark part of the photo had to be against something light and vice versa.

Well, today is the day! After four reshoots, many tears, and serious thoughts about therapy, I present to you the image that got me a 3.5 on the assignment!

...and more Karsh!

I set up the lighting for this Karsh style portrait very quickly and it probably won't be the final image I had in next week for class, but it was just too good not to be on the interwebs somewhere!

Macro!

For our macro assignment in large format and lighting we had to focus in on an object no bigger than one inch in size and our object had to have an environment. Meaning the photo had to have a foreground, middleground, and background.

BOB & WOW

B.O.B & W.O.W
black on black & white on white

Very similar to the previous post's assignment, with some differences.
This time we had to light an object and illuminate its shadow side so as to retain detail throughout the image, but we had to have a black image on a black background and a white image on a white background.

Key Fill

For this assignment we needed to use a fill light in order to retain detail on the shadow side of an object.

The first image is shot with only a main light coming from the left which creates a dark shadow side on the right. As a result some detail is lost.

The second image using the same main light, but has a fill light added. The shadow side of the cup does remain slightly darker, but none of the detail is lost in the cup now.

Macro My Face Off!

While I was youtubing photography today I found this:


I don't have a lens that goes further than 100mm like he suggested in the video, but I tried it with my fixed 50mm and my 18-70mm real quick and it totally works. I even like the little circular image it gives you.

I own you large format and lighting

"A1 steak sauce!", I'm told after my instructor looked at this board. Large format and lighting, I own you!

For this assignment we needed to gradate light across a shiny metal object while still maintaining light vs. dark and separation from the background.

HOWEVER. I am reshooting my three objects again. Sadly I can't show you a scan of the failed image because I chucked it in a bin in a small temper tantrum before leaving school today.