Human Landscapes

This shot is along the same line as the collar bone shot from a few months back. I am planning on continuing it as a series. Everything will be very abstract and a lot more fine art than commercial. This was shot right against the side of my face, shooting up towards my eye.

New Portrait

Planet Charlotte

This is something that I've been wanting to do for a long time. I love taking landscapes and panoramas, and turning them into little planets. I'm still working on getting the techniques down right tho. This was the panorama that I took for class last year. I tweaked it until the edges would line up and turned it into a little world :)

Dragonfly Noms

Some of you may remember the Dragonfly post from a few months back. I was looking through a lot of my images and I saw this sequence, and I thought it would be amusing to make it into a stop motion. Honestly, I find it hilarious. Disgusting... but hilarious. It's only one second, but I still appreciate it. For a better quality click HERE.

BTS :: Trū Hue Makeup

Behind the Scenes :: Kids, Food and Fashion

I am currently on my second internship and I am working with the amazingly talented Norma Lopez Molina. While working with her, whenever we go on a photo shoot, I take my camera and take behind the scenes (bts) images for my blog and for her. This is sort of a combined post of some of the bts from a shoot for a children's catalogue, a food shoot, and from Miami Fashion week.

Don't get me wrong, I love kids. Kids, however, don't always do what they're told, especially when there are about 5 of them running around and playing with each other. Norma was very patient, and she worked with each kid's hyperness to get the shots that she wanted. The shoot went really good. Plus there was a dog that kept walking through the set, so that was cute. The top image is Norma being goofy, and the bottom was just me messing around with some camera settings.

These images are from a food shoot for a restaurant in a hotel in Orlando. The shoot was fabulous, and the best part? We got to eat all of the food when we were done. DELICIOUS! I had some fun with the toning on the top one, and the bottom is a before and after of our table.

These last ones are from Miami Fashion week. I would have had more, but everything was very chaotic and, there was an extreme lack of communication. Basically, I wasn't able to photograph the show with Norma like I was supposed to, so I got to sit in the back room with the equipment for the two hour show. The good news is that I did get to go look around the booths that they had. Plus Norma was taking individual shots of each of the outfits for one of the designers, so I at least got to see those. The bottom was just some fun that I had. I wanted to focus on the model's hands. It isn't all of the outfits, but they're the ones that I got.

BE :: Maybelline Color Tattoo

For a majority of our grade in Chucks class we were partnered up with a graphic design student, and had to come up with a campaign for a product or service. I got to work with the fabulously talented Courtney Bortree. We decided to use Maybelline's Color Tattoo eye shadow. For the campaign we came up with the tag line BE. The project required us to have 3 different types of media plus a 15 second commercial that you can view here. The first 8 images are an 8 page booklet, like one that would go in a magazine. The last two are a magazine ad and a poster (in that order). I was in charge of the photography/video, and the post processing. Courtney was in charge of the layout and design. It was great working with her and I'm very happy with how it turned out. A big thanks to Chelsea Sullivan and Jamie Hayden for modeling!

A Day in the Life :: Grampy Edition

For our multimedia class we were required to find someone that would let us film their daily activities. I used Shana's Grandfather (Grampy). Big shout out to Grampy for letting me use him! This is both of Shana's grandparents; Grampy's on the left. To watch the video click here.

Chocolate

This was an assignment for Chuck's class. All we were told was to photograph chocolate. It was  completely open to our own interpretation, and this is what I came up with.

Day to Night

Our most recent assignment from James was to take an image during broad daylight and make it look like it was taken at night. This was taken around 3:00 on a sunny day. Thanks to the lovely Shana Jarrett for modeling!

Interior Part II

One of our assignments for James was to build one image from multiple. This was Taken in a Holiday Inn. I set up my camera on a tripod, and took a bunch of pictures by taking my hand held flash around the room and lighting up different parts. This is a compilation of about eight images, put together in Photoshop.

New York City

Internship

Hey boys and girls! It's been a while since I've updated anything on my blog, so the next few posts are going to fill you in on some happenings.

Back in November I started my first internship with the amazingly talented Betsy Hansen in Orlando, Florida. It was a great experience. The first weekend I was there was the Winter Park Fashion Week Fashion Show. Betsy was asked to photograph it. I was asked to download the images throughout the show for Betsy and the other photographers. At first I was put right at the end of the runway, and I would be able to photograph if I wanted. Unfortunately lack of a power source made me move to the back corner of the room, behind the check in area, so my view was mostly blocked. Lower left is Betsy doing her
thing, and the lower right is the view from my station.

While I was working with Betsy, I was also able to go with her to the PDN Photo Expo in New York City. While there, Betsy photographed Diana Hardeman, owner and founder of MilkMade Ice Cream. Diana was very sweet ad great to work with. Here's some behind the scenes images