Creative52, Week 9: Make A Mess
Now this challenge is up my alley. I was looking forward to this one because I've made a mess on several occasions with photoshoots. I've done the Holi powder thing before, done the milk bath, done the sparks and smoke and paint.
This time around I wanted to do another Holi powder shoot because I really love the texture and color you can get with the stuff; however, this time around, I could use a new 70-200mm lens which is much sharper than the original 50mm I used before, plus a nifty strobe light to help freeze motion and really bring out the dust particles in the air.
Unfortunately for me, I don't have a huge space to work with. I typically shoot stuff in my kitchen and I really wanted to cover Gina in Holi powder and have her jumping around. After trying to get in touch with a couple of rental spaces, no one called me back. So, I was stuck with using my kitchen again. This meant I couldn't really capture a jumping around scene.
The "hero" image for this shoot was shot by having Gina shake her head back and forth while keeping her eyes open. She tried clapping her hands together to make a Holi explosion and it looked cool but it just didn't look the way I had the image in my mind. I really wanted to get her green eyes set against the bright red, yellow, purple, and orange colors.
It took a few tries but I ended up catching one image with her eyes open, well lit by the fill light, and the dust just happened to be falling in such a way that filled the empty space. Had I known then what I know now I would have backlit the scene to further emphasize the dust.
Wrapping things up, I was also able to catch a cool moment afterwards where Gina saw herself in the mirror for the first time with all the powder on. I really love taking pictures of people in mirrors getting ready for something. Whether it's a dancer, acrobat, cirque performer, musician...whatever the case may be, I just like the moment in a mirror where you can see the performer putting their other-self on.
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Let's take a little look at how some of the Wizards in the Harry Potter universe are absolute jerks. Of course, this is all in good fun, but I want to take a look at the behavior and piggishness that Wizards have in this Potterverse. I mean, if they existed along with us here, they'd have a lot of explaining to do.
Creative 52, Week 29: Shoot a Very High-Key Image
High-key photography, damn near blowing out your image with copious amounts of light. Make your subject look like a pretty angel coming through heaven’s gate or something.
For this image I wanted to do a slight combination of high-key with low-key elements. By that, I mean, I wanted to put some form of viking face paint on the upper part of my face so I could later overlay an image of stars, the galaxy, or something of that nature. I wasn’t quite sure what yet. My girlfriend helped me with the makeup and even did an initial splatter spray of white on my forehead for texture and added pizzazz.
I wanted to wear a suit for this because you usually don’t see vikings in suits and I wanted to be a Work Viking…Assistant to the Regional Viking.
To make the blown out effect I hung up a white sheet in a doorway. Behind that sheet I put two softboxes with two 100 watt bulbs each to the side. I put two large LED worklights down a bit lower. ...
Creative 52, Week 28: Shoot a Very Low-Key Image
10/14/2021
Low-key in photography doesn’t mean relaxed, chilled out, and soft spoken. Low-key simply means that the emphasis is on the shadows, on the darks. Whereas high-key is all bright and damn near blown out, low-key has crushed blacks and is all mysterious. Perfect for getting close to Halloween, right?
Well, Gina was shooting a video for an upcoming belly dance gathering and was dressed like a witchy crone named Cailleach, a divine hag and Queen of Winter. She had a cool twiggy head band and some matching make-up; plus, we just finished watching this movie, Censor, which had this cool lighting theme all throughout. So, we decided to shoot this low-key image and video using only colored video lights…no strobes. The lighting was inspired by Censor and another movie called Mandy. Both movies are worth checking out.
This whole thing was a challenge because I really wanted to utilize the sharpness and look that I get with my ...
Collective Isolation
I have a strip of 75mm film I use for a bookmark and recently I was admiring just how damn cool it was. And then I was walking past these windows that look out upon the Mississippi River levee. In a way, this section of windows, framed by the support poles, reminded me of that 75mm film strip.
People, for the most part, tend to mind their own business. It's why we can go out to a restaurant with a loved one and pretend that we're not in a big room with dozens of other couples also pretending that no one else is around. When I set up my camera to take these pictures I decided to capture little frames of people minding their own business. So, no, I didn't want to "Shoot a Frame Within a Frame" using shadows or doorways; I wanted to use the entire wall of windows as a frame to separate interactions, use the lower section of windows to frame individuals going about their business while ignoring others, the upper part of the windows to frame birds flying together in ...
