Monday, December 6, 2010

Fashion re-shoot

Lansing sophomore Chidera "Chibang" Ogbonna shows off his large collection of shows.  

Lens (mm): 35
ISO: 100
Aperture: 16
Shutter: 1/200

Outtake

Lens (mm): 35
ISO: 100
Aperture: 16
Shutter: 1/200

Additional Images

Fashion
 Lansing sophomore Chidera "Chibang" Ogbonna shows off his polo t-shirt.

Lens (mm): 35
ISO: 100
Aperture: 16
Shutter: 1/200

Portrait
Wayne sophomore Corey Taylor shows off his goofy personality in the studio. Taylor likes to joke around and not take things too seriously. 
Lens (mm): 35
ISO: 100
Aperture: 14
Shutter: 1/200

Light setup:
 

Outtakes:



Monday, November 29, 2010

Additional Image - Location Lighting

Troy senior Andy Richter stands outside of the nearly completed CMU events center Sunday night. Richter, an intern for Clark Construction and a construction management major, began his internship working on the building in May. "I feel privileged to have been a part of the construction," he said.

Lens (mm): 17
ISO: 100
Aperture: 6.3
Shutter: 1/2.5


Monday, November 22, 2010

Photo Illustration - All-star freshman Trey Zeigler

Central Michigan University freshman Trey Zeilger is the highest rated high-school basketball player to ever sign with the CMU basketball program. Ranked in the top 16 'impact freshman' by ESPN, the start of Zeigler's career and his arrival at CMU has been much anticipated. With a brand new arena and a team expected to be one of the best in the Mid-American Conference, Zeigler's freshman season will be followed closely by thousands of fans, hoping to see them grab a title.

(Photoshop: Cut out photo of Trey taking a jump shot, blended with ball shot in the studio.)

Monday, November 15, 2010

Big Long Doughnuts - Class Illustration



Our class illustration is based on the idea "You are what you eat."  In order to create these images we first photographed Jeremy Olson using a soft box to camera right as the main light.  We also used a fill light bouncing off the wall on camera left and a rim light coming from camera left.  We carefully photographed the doughnut next using the exact same lighting setup.  To create our final image we cut the doughnut out using the magnetic lasso and then transposed the image onto the image of Olson.  For the first image, we took our photoshop skills a little further by using the liquefy filter to remove some of Olson's shirt.  We then used a clone stamp tool to make the arm look natural.  Presto.

Monday, November 8, 2010

Still Life

 ISO: 100
1/200th
f/10
300mm
 ISO: 100
F/16
1/200th
265mm

Lighting setup: Strobe underneath the table, soft box behind the subject, with a reflector attached to a ladder in front, shot using a telephoto lens off the top of the ladder. Situation two was lit with soft box only, on a black surface.

Additional:



Monday, October 25, 2010

Painting with light

Situation 1 - Reach for the stars

 Stars fill the room and hallway of an abandoned house at 4934 S. Crawford Road. The room, which appeared to be a child's bedroom, had stars painted on the floor and ceiling, with a banner that read "reach for the stars".

17mm
f/8
30 seconds
ISO 100

When searching through an abandoned house at 4934 S. Crawford road, I came across a child's room on the second floor. The ceiling and floor were covered with painted stars, and there was a banner that read "reach for the stars". I made a light stencil out of a cardboard box by cutting a star shape out of the front, and cutting a hole in the bottom for the strobe. I used the strobe at 1/64 power to create the stars.



Situation 2 - Orb of light



A mysterious figure (Jeff Smith) stands within an orb of light in an abandoned house at 4934 S. Crawford Road. The room was ransacked and littered with garbage.

17mm
f/8
30 seconds
ISO 100
To shoot this, I put the camera on a tripod outside of the house, shooting through a broken window. I placed one strobe outside the other side of the house at full power, zoomed to 105mm to create the shadow of the windows on the left wall. I placed another strobe to the right, outside of the frame at 1/8 power to give the room a little bit of light. I spun a flashlight on a string and walked in a circle to create the orb of light, and then aimed the flashlight at my face to burn myself into the middle of the orb.