Fun is Good

All of these photos except one are from recent jobs.  I couldn't feel luckier to be in a profession where capturing joy and wacky moments is often necessary.  There's enough terrible stuff in the world to think about, and it is captured beautifully by many, many amazing and courageous photographers who do something I never could.  Call me wimpy, but I'll stick with stuff that makes me smile as long as I can get it.  A few more photos from these shoots can be seen here.

Portfolio Outtakes

Choosing photos for a final RCC portfolio is more difficult than one might think. It's all too easy to second guess and third guess and listen to other people and change your mind and change your mind again and then find some old photos that might be better etc. etc. Here are some shots that didn't make it to the final selection and haven't appeared here before. Felt like they deserved to see the light of day. Perhaps I'm just emotionally attached, it's true.

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!

Jar o' Fish

More Barbie. More fish. Part of a bigger series, I hope. Fun with flash. Too much free time right now?

Porch Stuff

No caption necessary. I hope.

Barbie and the Fish

I've been wanting to shoot this fish for a while. After recently spending time with my nine year old niece (who has a very serious Barbie collection) and visiting my childhood home for two weeks, I realized that I needed Barbies to make my vision complete! This shot was done for one of our Self-Promo Assignments in which we can basically do anything we want as long as we plan and sketch it out ahead of time. I shot this at home with two White Lightnings and a yellow gel. The fish and the Barbie were a joy to work with and needed very little direction from me.