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!