Creative52, Week 23: Channel Another Artist
I call this photo "A Violent Reaction." When tasked to "channel another artist" for this week's challenge, I chose a certain series by photographer Tim Tadder called "Black Is a Color."
In his series, he poured various colors of paint over his models heads, starting with a base coat of black. The results with the glossy reflections and posing are quite lovely.
Well, I didn't want to copy this as much as be inspired by it.
The initial idea I had was to have the color be the main focus and light the subject from different angles to get the glossy reflections that interested me so much. Tadder's series, from what I could tell, were all shot on a black background. I wanted to do mine on white then change the color in post to a peach color. However, when I went to the store to buy paint I saw that they basically didn't have very much to choose from. So, I started to think: what can I do with just two colors? I decided to go with white and red and do a theme on violence and covering up violence. Again, when I started to shoot this on white I noticed how the white paint was blending into the white background. So, I found out why shooting on black for Tadder was useful.
The mannequin head I used was previously crushed very badly. The night before I shot this I had to reconstruct it with superglue but a large gash remained along the chin and jaw, there was still a big hole in the back, and the left ear was off set. This, however, made the theme work even better.
My blog has more details on how I put this all together:
https://www.jaylammphoto.com/?p=650
I ended up replacing the eye with a real human eye and not the mannequin eye because I was also inspired by this animation I saw back in the day. In the animation (I can't remember the name), they replaced the eyes with real human eyes to give it this creepy yet real feel to it.
This ended up being one of my favorite shots I've done so far.
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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 ...
