Intimate Moments

For our final assignment before beginning our internships, James asked us to produce a portfolio piece using some of the lighting techniques he's taught us this semester. We were encouraged to seek out something we were interested in, a series we wanted to work on etc. so here we are again with some of my favorite models. Out takes to follow!

Mr. Photography

Our second assignment for Advertising Photography this week was to shoot a commercial headshot of Chuck on one of the medium format cameras with a digital back. Chuck was quite patient while I fumbled around with the Leaf back and tried to maintain a conversation and get a good shot at the same time. I quickly remembered why I didn't go into the Portrait concentration although I actually really like shooting people if I can ever get the lights and everything else under control. You may now note the family resemblance between Chuck and his son Greg who is featured in a previous post.


Shot on Mamiya 645
w/ Leaf back
120 mm lens
f18 1/125

Good Ladies

For our lighting class with James this week our assignment was to practice with flash outdoors to "enhance reality". Jessica Benton and I headed to downtown Asheboro to make the magic happen. Although our first attempts weren't great, Jessica's shot makes me laugh so I thought I'd include it here. Ashley Ross was my kind subject on Saturday and we were lucky enough to be on Tate Street in Greensboro in some early evening light. Lovely models, great photographers and generally good ladies, the both of 'em.

Top shot:
Nikon D2X
f8 1/250

Bottom shot:
Nikon D2X
f7.1 1/250

Head Shot

This shot of the lovely Layne Sizemore was for our Client Assignment #2. The goal was to have a completely white background with no flare which, I've come to find out, is harder than it might seem. Luckily I worked with a great group of people and a wonderful model who is making appearances in many student projects. (She's also a really good photographer).

Layne is such a natural model that we had several shots we liked out of ten, so here is one more.




Shot on Mamiya RZ67
Ektachrome
Scanned on Imacon Flextight
f8 1/60
180 mm lens