You know, before I started this Creative52 venture I had already done quite a bit of abstract portraits. And by abstract portrait what I'm talking about is having a portrait represent a theme. For example, you would take the concept of "fear" and have a portrait represent that emotion in some way. So, how do you represent "fear" in a portrait? How do you represent "happiness" or "joy" in a portrait?
I recently had the opportunity to do some cast and individual shots for Theatre Baton Rouge's live performance of Clue.
Basically, the characters in the play all represent different themes in a way. One represents worry, one represents machismo, one represents intellect, and so on. So, after getting the initial standard portrait shot, I had each actor go freestyle and pose however they thought their character would pose. After every strobe just give me something. Go nuts. And that's what they did. After all, they knew their characters pretty well and knew how they should look.
These portraits come in the form of playing cards and designed to look like they were printed on cardboard. They have a half portrait, half painting style to them. I included the show logo, the name of the character, the magnifying glass from the game, and then a bit of a blurb to their character: Col. Mustard the Adventurer, Miss Scarlet the femme fatale. My hope was that whenever you looked at the playing card and the expression of the character, with their costume, with their individual prop, you should already get an inkling into their character profile without actually hearing anything they say.
So, this is my take on the "abstracting a portrait" idea. Characters from a play (or board game) on playing cards, in a sort of stylized pose, with a personalized prop, in gesture to help convey what their characters represent.
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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 ...
