Zoe’s Graduation University of Texas at Dallas
Almost endless days and nights of hard work and study culminated today for Zoe!
Almost endless days and nights of hard work and study culminated today for Zoe!
Spent the night in Studio Lighting preparing for finals. Anaïs was kind enough to model for us and did an absolutely amazing job!
We have a Rembrandt Lighting assignment coming up and Louis brought her to help all of us out! She did an absolutely amazing job putting up with an entire classroom full of Studio Lighting students that don’t know what in the actual fuck we’re doing.
Spent the night up at the college working with strobes, beauty lights, the soft box, and working the Dynalite Power Pack and the Sekonic light meter. It’s a lot to go through, but we have a lot of good people in our Studio Lighting class and a really awesome professor!
We got extra credit for shooting this, honestly I feel like most of the shots were super, super annoyingly pedestrian except for the very last one. Spending a good three hours walking around my old neighborhood (we used to live a block away from Half Priced Books, where this all started) taking photos of drunken and loud people, the parade had finished and everyone was filtering away trying to beat the rush out, and I had a feeling just to keep my camera on me instead of putting it away, and in a sea of green, there was this one lady with a red shirt on sitting down for a smoke. She looked as absolutely done with this nonsense as […]
Sometimes for assignments I go through the thrift shops here in Dallas to see if anything “fits” or “clicks” with what I need, a perfect synchronicity is getting this assignment for sensuality then finding a perfume bottle in the shape of a woman’s body that has iridescent flowers inside. The piece isn’t really about bodies or have any hard and fast rules, but it seemed to fit rather well, and it’s not a Studio Lighting assignment so I’m just setting up a quick home studio for this using a strobe, umbrella and natural light from the window. Sometimes now using the studio feels like cheating for my Photo II class. So I wanted to do this outside of the studio, […]
Second time actually able to dink around in the studio by myself, was working on some of the principles that Gary McCoy was teaching us about light modifiers. There are things I’d change that I didn’t even see or visualize until I was at home during post, but for a single-light setup and one of my first attempts I’m not displeased! I still have a lot to learn but I’m enjoying seeing where I was just a couple of weeks ago and where I am now in the studio!
One of the benefits of having a photography student is free photography on the holidays!