The Shoe

Robert Golding has his students take part in an assignment every year where the students are given a pink and white Nike shoe and told to photograph it. There are no rules, just that the shoe is in the picture. It was fun seeing the examples of all the different ideas people had come up with in the past. I don't think I remember seeing one like this one...

So im pretty happy with how I've done it. 

A Visit to Mimi's Studio

This past Friday my class took a field trip to Mimi Janosy's studio in Manayunk to practice our next assignment - Pet Photography. Someone brought in their dog, Noel and I fell in love!!! Such a lovable, soft, fluffy puppy!! Can I have one now?

I just wanted to share this beauty to share a smile :)

Advanced Commercial Studio

So far this semester I have turned in two assignments for Advanced Commercial Studio. There was the White Card assignment which was a lot of fun, and then there was the Food assignment. I think I have decided that photographing food is not one of my strong points if I have to be the photographer and food stylist at the same time. I kind of suck at food! So I made life a little bit easier on myself this time around and bought a cheesecake. Yum!

This assignment was to show that certain liquids do not photograph very well on top of a black background. Sometimes the liquid gets lost in the black behind it. Using this technique, the colors of the liquid look much richer and brighter. 

This is the Food cover. Yummy! 

Tungsten/Daylight

A tricky assignment. First, I had to photograph a situation that was balanced and correct for Daylight, but included Tungsten (which should show up orange). Then I had to do the same thing but with corrected Tungsten, which would cause the daylight to show up blue. This was tricky but I think I got it :)

Coffee Beans

Here is some work I did for our "Product" assignment for Bill Kelly. I chose to do something I love oh, so much: Coffee! I bought a bag of whole bean Caffe Verona from Starbucks so I could enjoy the coffee when I was done shooting it. What a yummy aroma to have surrounding me as I shot :) 

Catalog Shot 

On Location 

With a Model

Beautiful Sadness

For my first student choice in my portrait class I chose "Experimental Portrait." I chose it because I had a vision of a woman reflecting after having a breakdown. Maybe it was a way to channel the negative energy  built up over this gray and gloomy winter, or maybe it was just an off the wall idea. Either way, my model Corol was a wonderful sport and the final image is beautiful. Thanks again, Corol.

Panoramas

Vlad gave us an assignment a few weeks back to shoot a panorama. I was a little nervous at first because I had actually never done a panorama. My first one was shot in Curtis Park right by my house. The other two were shot in Philly not long after, since I can't get shooting them off my brain! I plan on practicing with this a lot more :) I even want to try doing an HDR panorama or two!!!


P.S. Click on the images to enlarge them for the full effect...they're looking pretty small :)

This is Curtis Park in Elkins Park, Pa 

Since I'm still so new to Philly I am not 100% sure but I think I was told this is the IRS building 

A view of the river and Boathouse Row from the walkway by the Art Museum. I want to go back and shoot from the road across from Boathouse Row to get a much better shot! (or rent a boat, maybe?)