[more] faces, faces, faces

Done APS, and with that, Phase III.

Exhale.

Here's the final set...

faces, faces, faces

Phase III Additional Personal Submissions: Due March 19th. The only thing standing between me and LA.

Some of my favourites from APS shoots...

Love this kid. I'm 100% convinced that any and all photos of Jon turn out well. Thanks to him for a fun shoot (even though he was really sleepy the whole time =).

Kelly has a ridiculously extensive repertoire of facial expressions... a crappy.rainy afternoon well spent in the portrait studio.

It was tough to decide between these last two shots. I finally chose the latter, I think his facial expression says it all.

More to come...

Phase III Final

At long last...

Phase III Mandatories were turned in last Monday (there was a whole lot of celebration afterward). Here are my final shots...

[PR]

Molly was a ton of fun to work with. She was very patient while I shot the PR photo...

[Alternate]

Then we got to have some fun.

[Family In Home]

Beacon, NY. Shot this in about 5 takes, Tyler got pretty restless. They did great, though.

[Environmental Portrait]

Drove out to NYC with Espo for this one. Fun day trip... got to sit in on this guy's comedy on demand show in the Sirius radio tower. A bit surreal...

[High Key Female]

Hopefully my model here isn't that recognizable... this is probably my favourite of my portfolio shots.

[Low Key Male]

Found this guy on MM, got pretty lucky, we shot in about 20 minutes, he was good to work with. Simple, but I like it.

[Executive Portrait]

Beacon, NY! Thanks to Miranda's hookups, here.

[Child Portrait]

This kid was awesome. "Okay, Nate, I want you to lean in reaaalllly close at look at my camera, ok?" This is what I got. =)

[Outdoor Portrait]

Beacon, NY. It was FREEZING cold out, I lost feeling in my hands about 2 minutes into the shoot. Had to Photoshop the life out of the reflection here, but it seems to work.

[Product Sheet]

Vans. Need I say more?

[Reflective Metal]

The shiny... is hard to light.

[Glassware]

Simple. I had about 5 other choices (I re-shot glass about 4 times), decided on this one in the end.

[Advertisement]

This shot was a ton of fun to do. The type/product could use some work, but what can you do?

[Architectural Interior]

Northampton, MA. Thanks to the Hotel Northampton for this one. They were super helpful, even let Miranda and I go upstairs/into the rooms to shoot.

[Still Life]

Shot this one pretty fast, but I'm happy with how it came out. The colour still bothers me, for some reason, but I couldn't get it to where I was 100% happy. I suppose 95% will have to do (for now).

Fin.

glassware | low key

So, the insanity of Phase III final portfolio kicks into full gear...

Glassware, takes 1 and 2 (there may yet be a take 3).

I dragged Jon Brown into the studio a couple nights ago to practice low key lighting. A few of my favourites from the evening:

[not sure why, but I love this shot]

Back to Web Design class...

Soon to come: Axe deodorant ad, metal shot, more portraits...

pop, lock & drop it

Last night, after a week and a half of (almost) complete shut down.burn out, I started shooting again.

Simple drop and pop of Axe deodorant spray. I spent most of the evening fighting with the large format camera (no, Hallmark I didn't break anything), some keystoning, and lining up the product correctly, but I finally got a couple decent shots.

Now for the fun part. The photo I'm going to drop it on top of...

...is soon to come.

We had another Heisler class today, working with two soft boxes and a umbrella fill.

[the lovely Tia Surles]

Tonight: more commercial studio... Absolut Ruby Red vodka time!

softboxes, light kits, shower curtains, etc

I've been shooting a fair amount of portraiture lately (go figure). I rented out a softbox and a one head light kit this weekend, and had some fun shooting with Miranda.

Some of my favourite shots...

[love her eyes in this shot]

[oh, scandal]

This morning, my section practiced with Heisler's one light/shower curtain setup.



[the discovery of how to manually create sepia tone without a preset = highlight of my week]

That's all for now, folks. More to come (soon enough).