STEVE

So tonight I was lucky enough to help a friend out with a personal project he is working on, so I was able to paint his face up and make him feel beautiful.  And while his other photographer was on break I was able to snap my own photos, because honestly this was the moment i have been waiting for all my life and who . To take photos of a man half way in drag.

this was a candid shot, outside of the studio lights. 

carnivals aren't just for kids...

So I went to the carnival, figured it would be a great place to take some found light spots that also let me play around with my shutter and give it the feel of being sick at the carnival, which i ended up being.

Portrait 2

Posed

not posed

posed and hyper styled

narrative- boredom

Narrative- The illness

This past week I have been super sick, I caught a cold, turned into sinusitis then bronchitis ended up coughing up blood and so that was fun.  Because I was not able to go out into the wonderful world and take photos with people all I could really do was stay in bed and rest so I took this opportunity to mess with my self timer and prop setting up, below is my finished product of my narrative more like my week.

portraits

So I picked up a new lens (24mm )last week and turned my garage into a makeshift studio, with a painters canvas tarp and some spot lights i picked up at Ace Hardware. I took a bunch of photos of my friend kyle since he was the only one who would help me out in spur of the moment. Below are some of the images that turned out pretty cool.  I guess if I can redo this project it would be to steam out the background, but at the same time I feel like it gave some of the photos a more tattered look which is kind of fitting, because i didn't want to make this photoshoot some beauty type work I wanted to see if i can capture the individuals personality and work on connecting to the person in front of the camera though i have background doing photos for work it's not really lets sit down get to know each other type of atmosphere its more like a point and shoot type of gig. So having an opportunity to take photos of an extremely shy individual that does not portray emotions through facial features often made it more interesting.

not blurred background

blurred background

evening photography

So I work during the day and the only time I am free has been after 4 or 5 which means the sun is gone and im left with some dreary looking scenery. So I practiced on changing my manual settings on my camera to hopefully get some good shots. These photos are not my best ever shots but they are the best out of the groups of photos I have taken for this project which is sad.

Iso 6400 55mm f/22 1/8 sec

 iso 6400 37mm f/8.0 1/8 sec

iso 12800 24mm f/4.0 1/160 sec

moon iso3200 55mm f/5.6 1/500 sec

iso 100 26mm f/25 8.0 sec