Flower Shoes

For this assignment we were given the options of shooting flowers, jewelry, furniture, or a cold beverage.  I chose to shoot flowers with a fashion spin on it.  At first I was trying to figure out how to make something out of flowers and I knew I didn't have the time or budget to make a whole dress out of flowers so I decided to make a shoe with flowers.  Luckily for me it was valentines weekend so I had lots of flower options to choose from at the store.  I knew I wanted it to be very unrealistic with the moss and background selections.  It took a lot of time to glue the flowers onto the shoe and make sure they were placed correctly. The first shot it was I turned in for class and the second shot was just a product shot since I was so excited about my shoe I couldn't help myself.  

Tiffany & Co.

Every year in the commercial concentration we do a joint project with a graphic design student.  We have to come up with a whole campaign for a company.  My Partner and I decided to do a campaign for Tiffany & Co.  The slogan for this campaign is, "What's your desire?"  These images do not have the graphics on them yet but here are some images I shot for the campaign.  

Air!

When we got our new assignment last week our teacher looked at us and said shoot air.  That was all he said at first and everyone sat there in silence dumbfounded as to how can you possibly take a photo of air.  There was also a quote to go with it, "If you surrendered to the air, you could ride it." Toni Morrison. Special thanks to the lovely Britni Larue for modeling for me outside with the wind blowing really hard she was prefect for this shoot.  

Gingerbread House

Last week we got an assignment to spend a day with someone at work.  I had been to the gingerbread house before and it is a cute little building that looks like a gingerbread house.  It is ran by this nice lady and she is the only person that works there so she is open from 7am-2pm Monday through Friday.  The food there is delicious and mostly made fresh every morning at 5am.  We had to make a two minute long video including still images and audio from the interview we had.  Here are a few of my favorite images from that day.  

White Sweep

In our commercial advertising class this week we were told to set up a shoot where it was a clean white sweep with no editing just with the lighting techniques used.  Me and two friends set ours up and took turns shooting.  Here is one of the best shots I got of Jackie, we also had a little photo-booth session after that was lots of fun and very ridiculous.  These photos have no editing just a crop.   

Hilda

Back in the fall we got an assignment to shoot something that has significantly changed your life.  We could do multi-media, still image, or three dimensional, I chose to do a collage of still images.  The person that has significantly changed my life is Hilda, she was like a grandmother to me.  I spent a lot of time at her beach and lake houses sometimes days up to weeks at a time.  Hilda taught me many things from learning how to swim, playing chinese checkers and just being a great person.  Hilda held me as a baby on the front church pew, took me to her hair appointments as a kid, and even let me do her hair.  I don't know where I would be without her today.  Sorry this took so long to post but here it is!

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.  



Sam vs. Man from Cali Lowdermilk on Vimeo.

The Gators Swamp

I know I haven't posted anything in a while but thats because I have been so busy with internship.  This weekend we got tickets to the University of Florida Vs. Appalachian game.  So of course being from North Carolina I had to pull for my home state team Appalachian even though we lost I still had a great time.  It was such a beautiful day so I shot this panoramic before the game, the stands weren't completely full yet but it was packed by the time the game started.  This was the view we had from our seats on the goal line row 9.

Photoshop Fun!!

Here are some things I've done in my digital imaging class this past eight weeks.  First we had a pen tool test and had to pen tool out the guy, the hat, and the pear then place it on the back ground and heres what I came up with.

For our final assignment we had to make a composite.  We drew words out of a hat to figure out what all we had to composite together and my object were pea coat, decorative wallpaper, and flower, my person was a hipster, my theme was audacious.  Here is what I came up with the people, the floor, and the wall paper are all different shots.  Special thanks to Kourtney and Rider for modeling for me!

Jewelry!

This was my last self promo shot for fall semester.  I wanted to do a jewelry advertisement, once again I had no idea what exactly I wanted to do or how to set it up for a while.  But then I thought do something different and put the jewelry on backwards.  I got the jewelry from a great antique shop in downtown Asheboro.  Special thanks to Jessica for modeling for me!

Chocolate Delight!

So for our last self promo I wanted to shoot chocolate but had no idea how exactly I was going to set it up. So I had the idea of floating chocolate with a drip coming off of one.  We also had to use a digital back for a shot.  I used a Sinar F-1 camera with a phase one digital back.  I used the large format camera so I could Scheimplug it and lay the focus on the center chocolate.  This set up took a very long time and to actually get the drip right while the truffle was melting from being dipped in hot chocolate it was very interesting.  Thanks to Cali for dipping the chocolate.  Yes this chocolate tasted amazing check out Loco for Coco if your in the Greensboro, NC area!  

Eggs!

For our client assignment we were told to photograph a dozen eggs and that was all the direction we got.  We were allowed to interpret and illustrate the eggs any way we liked.  Since I enjoy arts and crafts from time to time I thought I would decorate the eggs in a neat way not many people have seen.  It was time consuming but fun, by the end there was glitter everywhere.

 

Panoramic

In our digital imaging class we were told to photograph a 180 degree panoramic.  I had remembered a spot I had previously shot for my large format class.  I went back to that location to do my panoramic.  This is my first panoramic so be nice.  I'm looking forward to doing more.  

Vintage

I had the idea of doing an extravagant Kentucky Derby style hat shoot but being in NC you can't really find hats in that style. I found a great hat at a costume store called At The Ritz Costumes in Greensboro.  I also found a great dress at Designer Archives in Greensboro.  A huge thanks to both of those place for letting me rent the hat and dress.  After I got the outfit it turned into a more vintage feel rather than at the derby which I liked just as much.  Special thanks to Kourtney Pierce who modeled for me out in the blazing hot sun she was great.

Beauty

For my third self promo I wanted to do an up close beauty shot.  I am lucky enough to have a good friend, Aimee Creapeau, who is a make up artist for Arbonne. Aimee was up for anything I wanted her to do which made it a lot easier to work with her to produce my vision in the make up.  Aimee also picked out the model who is Jenna Severt and she was great to work with, she followed direction great and I got exactly what I wanted.  So a special thanks to both Aimee Creapeau and Jenna Severt!

Kool Aid

How to assignment

1.)First you will need 1 cup of sugar, a pack of Kool aid, water, the pitcher your making it in, and a stirring utensil.

2.) Pour the cup of sugar in.

3.) Pour the packet of Kool aid in.

4.) Pour the water in to fill up the pitcher. 

5.) Make sure to stir it up and pour yourself a glass.

Enjoy!

Natural Alphabet

We went on a field trip the other week to downtown Greensboro, NC.  We were told to find natural letters and then we were going to make a poster out of it so heres my poster.