Shoot 7

This project is a precursor to my final project where I will be making images commenting on the gas crisis. My goal is to make another six images like this one all consisting of gas stuff. Thats right I refered to it as gas stuff. What is gas stuff you say? well pumps nozzles barrels and traffic all combined with gas masks and hands and other images of strife. What will it look like you say? Well kind of like this.

Studio Shoot 6

For this shoot I wanted to do a poster about the housing crisis. That being said I walked down the street, found a house for sale, whipped out my flash and started firing away. My idea was to use the flash as a strobe but man oh man did that go awry. I was using a new camera that I honestly wasn't that comfortable with. I guess it was more of the lens conversion stuff that I had grown acostomed to not worrying about. ok so complaints aside I think the shoot came out ok considering the issues. Like most photographers these days if something goes wrong just fix it in post.

When doing research I googled hosing crisis and 9 out of ten of the shots were of for sale signs. Pretty neat huh? Well I decided I wasn't the man to break the mold so I went along like a little sheep and followed the google images herd, but just a bit. I wanted to keep the sign motif but add a little touch of . . . well me. I took the signs and made them my own by blowing them up and adding other looming signs in the sky. I think all in all it worked. I also think you agree (my attempt at using the force)

Studio Shoot 5

For the fifth shoot I decided to continue with propaganda posters. Where the first one was meant to represent the fear of a political party this project was to be for a or pro a specific political party. I continued along with the socialist party and attempted to make a pro-socialist poster. When researching similar imagery the one ongoing theme was the socialist workers fist. I took this fist (as seen below) and incorporated it into my own photography. For the shoot I went to the roof of the school and shot a few with a radio tower as the background. The lighting was fairly simple, the hands were back lit by the sunset (not directly but at an angle around 45 degrees). I then took a travelight and had it fill in the hands. After doing some repositioning I finally got the lighting just teh way I wanted. My goal was to have the fist slightly out reaching the hands reaching. The key was to get a little key light on the front side of the fist. After moving around a bit I finally got what I was looking for.

shoot 3

For the third shoot I wanted to make some sort of political/campaign poster. I think the campaign part is a bit of a flop but the political aspect came off rather successful. The idea was to make some sort of comment of socialist issues and the fear in america of social programs. The hands are there to represent a question. A question of whether they represent hand outs, an offering or asking. I feel this can be interpruted all three ways. For the me the interesting notion is that the viewer can decide which of the three ways to interpret the hands and there meaning. The mask is to represent fear, the fear mentioned of social programs. I made two different versions for crit cause I couldn't decide which I liked better. After the crit it was agreed that the darker one was the best. I looked to propaganda posters/imagery to refrence. I included a few of those.

Project 2

Ive decided to do an album cover. These are one of my favorite things to do when it comes time for making some extra cash. So I again kept to my style of image making, tractors and alot of post production. The cover is for Ned's Atomic Dustbin which is a fav. artist of mine but man do there album covers suck. So here is my attempt (below the Ned's Atomic Dustbin original).




estimate below:

Book Cover

So for the first project I've decided to redo a book cover. The original(Below) is pretty bad so it wasn't very hard to improve. The title leaves the cover to be wide open with the imagination so I got a little crazy.



below is my Project estimate.



who would've thought that I can continue my own image making and have it apply to commercial photography?!

Lighting setup and notes from Kyle.

1. Limelight

To shake things up a little bit, we lit this shot from above using one hotlight and a diffusion panel. This provided fairly open shadows and let the upper part of the background go darker to serve as the backdrop for dave's hand and the flame.



2. Butterfly

We used a two light, high key setup for the butterfly shot. One light was placed at a 45 degree angle behind a diffusion panel. The second light was back and on the right to provide an artificial sunlit look. We attached one of the "butterflies" to a dowel rod to make it "fly."





3. Gumshoe

Again, just one light was needed since our set was so small (baby shoe at the thrift store).
We lit from the left side this time in order to throw the shadow underneath the shoe




4. We did a simple one light setup for this shot. We wanted some severe, dramatic shadows for this one, so we didn't use a fill card or second light. We did place a diffusion panel in front of the 650 arri for just a little bit of softening, but had it right in front of the hotlight so the shadows were still crisp.