Sneak Peek!

Every year the photography department does a joint assignment with the graphic design program.  Me and my graphic design partner decided to do Tiffany's Jewelry.  We are doing a whole campaign including a magazine ad, poster, billboard, and a 15 second video.  I was shooting in the studio last night for the billboard, while a fellow photo student was walking around taking behind the scene shots.  Alyssa Barajas snapped this shot of my camera zoomed in on a piece of my billboard shot you can visit her blog at http://abarajasphoto.blogspot.com/ to see more of her work.  The full campaign will be coming soon!

Film Favorites!

This week I'm bringing back some oldies but goodies.  These are a few of my favorite shots I did in my first year at Randolph Community College.  

Chocolate Covered Strawberries

Our first assignment after being gone for three months was dessert.  Since I tend to do more high contrast photographs I wanted to try something different.  I also wanted to use hard lighting so I came up with chocolate covered strawberries.  I dipped the strawberries myself in chocolate and then drizzled some white chocolate over one.  I wanted chocolate drizzle on my plate too so I asked a fellow classmate that was on a food photography based internship what the best way to do it was.  I was told that if I mixed a little water with chocolate syrup it would make the syrup smoother to drizzle across the plate, it worked great.  I also wanted the plate to look like it was one a sea of chocolate so I used some brown silk fabric to give that effect.

Stop Motion

When we finally returned to school we found out the school had purchased a few copies of the Dragon Stop Motion software.  So our teacher told us a little bit about it and then let us test it out for ourselves.  We were broken down into pods of six or seven people.  My pod was the last to go so we were challenged to come up with a better video than the other pods.  This video consist of 41 separate frames and only last 3 seconds.  So watch the video and see what you think.  



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