Studio Fashion Assignment

This past week our class was assigned a project called "Is This Fashionable?" and the purpose of it was to mix two separate genres of photography and mix them to create a fashion styled photograph.
The twist: we had to work on groups. Working in groups can be difficult with all of the separate schedules.
However, we did manage quite nicely and I believe each of our projects was a success.

My model was Jason and my assistant was Daniela (click to look at her wonderful blog!) . We all got the shot done quite quickly. Oh, I almost forgot, thank you to Leti, Aven, & Erin for allowing me to use their home for the shoot!

Exercise #1 & #2 - White on White / Black on Black

Eduardo is always trying to get us to be creative in this class. This very technical assignment was difficult to try and shoot.
However, one night I was re-watching one of my favorite movies (A Single Man) and BAM! I got inspiration in an instant.
I wanted to base this still life project around objects that you would find in an upper middle class home in the 1960s. I used the White on White project to do the female and the Black on Black to represent the male.
We had to spray paint items in a matt white or black and shoot them with the same colored background while moving the light source in different locations.
These were my results:

HRC & Piercings

Yesterday, I took my second trip on Austin public transportation.

Dyan and I went to the Harry Ransom Center at UT in order to do out assignment for History of Photography. It was a bit overwhelming after a couple of hours. We looked around patiently, however we haven't gotten halfway through our assignment. It was nice being able to see a lot of photography, though.

After that, we went to eat a delicious meal and then to Diablo Rojo so Dyan could get her piercing! :D

The place was actually nicer than I'd expect it to be and the people who work there are really nice! Dyan was kind of nervous of getting her rook and her conch piercings. Everything went smoothly though!

I forgot to mention that they had really cool stuff on their walls, including this framed image in their piercing room.

Studio Assignment #2

I shot my best friend Daniel for my second assignment for Studio.
The assignment was very technical and I was to use lighting skills.
Half of my assignment was to use a single light source to light one side of the subject while the other side is dark.
The other half was to use that same single light source and bounce the light to fill in the other half that was dark.
Anyway, I am sure it is boring to explain it technically so here are the pictures I took of my best friend (and model) Daniel.