Final exam

This was the final exam for portraiture class. I had to redo my outdoor group shot, and these guys helped me out. I spent a few hrs in Photoshop creating the shadows that make it more of a portrait. this was actually taken with an on board flash.

Juice Shot

And finally commercial class! this was the infamous liquid shot (originally the wine and cheese shot) and we had to use the dreaded SPEEDOTRONS! which are studio flash generators which are connected to flash heads by cables. VERY high voltages, (900v @ 500amps for those of you who know your electricity) the teacher had been scaring us for weeks about what not to do with these units so everyone was nervous. but it actually went rather well. we had to put some sort of background to the image so I threw something togther. I think it's kinda cute :)

High Speed Flash

This was a fun one to try. I had to freeze motion using a flash (rather then a fast shutter speed). I had to trigger the flash at just the moment that the spray was comming out of the bottle. I like how it turned out, however I had the lighting slightly wrong so my mark was deducted abit...

Hands

This was the last assignment we had in Location lighting. We had to take a photo of hands showing some emotion using the self-contained flash units. I had to use the same flash units for the previous couples shoot as well. I liked how this one turned out.

Multi Flash

This is the one Jenn was waiting for:

So this was a Location Lighting assignment. we had to "paint with flash" or something to that effect. Jenn came out with me at least twice, and helped me by posing, and driving me around, and just helping me out until all hours of the morning. In order to do this shot we had to setup the camera open the shutter, and then run around and set off the flash many times.
Oh, BTW, I cut my hair... ;)

Sun Sync Flash

So this one can be self explanitory; however, it might not be imediately obvious. this was an exercise in manipulating the flash to match ambient light, or to make the ambient light dominant, or to use it as a fill light. if you look closely, you can see that some of the pictures are slightly over powered with the flash, and some others are just filled in with the flash.

Back again!

ahhh wonderful procrastination...
yes I have a pile of assignments to put up here. I've been either working hard trying to get things caught up, or putting it off so I wouldnt get too depressed. :)
Anyhoo, as a procrastination for my current work, I'll post all the other assignments I've been putting off. :)



Ok, so this was the last attempt to get this assignment done before it was due. I did 3 different shoots to try and get this done. and I still didn't get it exactly right. I was supposed to get everyone at full length. ahh well..