still life

Here are my still life images! They were quite fun to shoot!

Maximum depth of field

Minimum depth of field

Available Light

Creative

scanographs!

Here is a scanograph I found online that I really enjoy:

royal-nightmare.deviantart.com

I really love the contrast of the red cherries and the blue/green background tint of the image. The surreal quality to it makes it so interesting to look at.


These are my own scanographs. They were mostly tests to see how I could manipulate my images, and I feel an addiction to scanography coming on for this weekend...

my best friend and i

long fingers

peace and love

some more I did over the weekend:

Creative Lighting Portraits

M. Mason

For this photo, I set up the lights so that the small one was shining directly behind his head, giving the outline along his shoulders/neck and emphasizing the form of his hair. Then there is the bigger 500 watt light somewhere between split and short. Because his head is facing the bigger light source, we loose his neck to shadow, and it creates an interesting line along his jaw.

Y. Jobin

For this photo I set up one 500 watt light on the ground to create the shadow on the background, and there is also a small light on the right side of his face to eliminate shadows as much as possible.

Classic Studio Portrait

Yann, from the other first year group

Studio Lighting Portraits

Split lighting

Short, no fill

Short, reflector

Butterfly

Environmental portraits

Before you look at my pictures, I just wanted to mention that I've discovered a problem with my camera's settings. No matter what ISO I set it at, the picture is always taken at ISO 1600 when I shoot on manual. I thought in the case of my self portrait I had forgot to adjust my settings, but then it continued to happen. So sorry for the ridiculous amount of grain in my portraits, and I'm hoping I'll be able to fix this problem asap!

I took my self-portrait in my bedroom, where I spend most of my time on my laptop, or drawing/painting. I'm the most comfortable in the space that I've decorated and arranged myself. I talked to you about trying this idea of peaking from behind my laptop, and I like the way it turned out (except for the grain).

I love flowers and flower shops, so I decided to go to the one in the Alexis Neon mall and ask to photograph one of the women working there. This one woman cooperated fully, and even suggested ways she could pose. She seemed happy to let me take a picture of her, and this was refreshing after being rejected by many random working strangers I asked. I like the many colors in the picture, and the nice smile she has.

This is a totally unplanned shot I took of my best friend waking up. I thought it was quite lovely even though most people look terrible in the morning. I like the grungy lifestyle that the image portrays, because of the graffiti on the wall and the raggedy Bob Dylan portrait I made for her. She has just moved into this apartment. I included it just for fun because I think it defers from the typical looking environmental portrait.

Portrait entry

This is a portrait of very talented actress/musician Zooey Deschanel. The colour of her dress is a nice soft shade and does not distract from her face, instead it accentuates her dark hair. Her hands, which could have easily looked tense, look totally relaxed. Having her full arm in the frame leads our us up to her eyes.

Moment shots

Available light

These pictures of Graham were taken using available light in the studio in class on Tuesday.

using a tripod

handheld

JUMP!

Graham Gibb