Color Correction

I decided to shoot my Color Correction assignment at Cold Stone Creamery on Elm and 10th. The point of the assignment was to use an orange or green gel to balance light inside of an area lit with incandescent or fluorescent light.

Aaron Vance Scoops ice cream for a 1/2 pan to a 1/4 pan between rushes. They use smaller pans because of all the seasonal flavors they offer.

I really like to shoot people especially with a strobe. Unfortunately the strobe I use takes 30 seconds to recycle. It is really irritating to try and take a picture of someone when your equipment is holding you back.

This photo was taken using bounce flash off the wall in front of him. The exposure I used was 1/180 @ f2.8.

Painting with light.

For the painting with light assignment we were assigned to groups by our instructor and worked together to make some neat shots. The group consisted of Erin Hendry Christina Manolis and Lillian Kelly.

After being run over and chopped up by a tractor one stormy night in 1832, the young girl's ghost returns every dark and stormy night to seek her revenge on anyone who crosses her path. Many people have ventured out to this farm to see if the story is really true. Nobody has ever heard from any of them again.-Erin Hendry

My group member Erin Hendry used this anecdote for her blog so I decided to use it for mine as well. Erin also played our ghost.

When we first arrived on the scene we saw this old tractor and we knew that we had to incorporate it into our shot. First we experimented using flashlights and strobes to illuminate the scene. As the night wore on we decided to forget flashlights and use only strobes. There is a total of 8 strobe flashes that took 66 seconds to make. We used f8 to keep the foreground and background in focus as much as possible.

This is another shot we made using the strobes. I like this shot because it is simple and the lighting is nice. I dislike this shot because their is no subject and it is kind of boring. A good example of lighting though.

We wanted to keep it scary for Halloween so here is another shot we tried to pull off. Erin is again our ghost.

We could not find a lighting set up or angle that we all agreed on so we decided to move on after making a few shots.

This is an original shot out of the camera but I did not like the composition. It is too loose. I decided to use photoshop to move the elements closer together.

I changed the composition but I am still not satisfied with the shot.

Single Flash

It is tuff to find subjects to experiment on with a bright flash in their face so I chose a statue of a person on the MU campus.

I used the flash to fill the dark side of this statue. I made this shot in the late day and the sun was already setting behind the subject. I used the flash to balance and fill then dark side.

I shot this at 1/180 @ 4.5.

Metal and Glass

Metal
For this assignment we were assigned a partner from class to grip for the other person. Jessica Barnet and I were paired together to see what we could come up with. Unfortunately I came down with a severe case of swine flu and shot my portion of the shoot before it became too serious. About a week later I was feeling good enough to make it to the studio and contribute to Jessica's efforts.

From the begging in knew I wanted to do something with cooking and food. I had some

pork fillets I would put on a wood cutting board but I thought it was going to neglect metal as the subject so decided to keep it simple and go with the peppers and parsley.

I started by laying out a black piece of 1/8in black plexi glass on a table. The black plexi acts just like a piece of metal or glass, it will reflect the surroundings in this case mostly the background. I lit the bowl all by itself until I found an exposure and lighting set up that worked. I shot this at 1/250 @ f9.5. When I was satisfied with the composition I added the food elements and spritzed the outside of the strainer to give it a wet appearance. I added the orange gel at the last minute when I was being kicked out of the studio.

Glass

My partner and I worked on this shot together when I was still a little sick from swine flu. We tried many different

techniques until we decided to go with all wood. There was an old wooden desk in the studio and a wooden door we used for the background. We used a yellow and orange mixed gel on the background a front fill spotlight bounced off a white piece of plexi for the foreground and a snood on the glass. I would have liked to have seen more fire in the glass but when we looked at it on the LCD it looked o.k. We also used fake ice and spritzed the glass to make them look cold.

In Photoshop I shortened the bottle because we should have used a 1/5 but all we had was a handle. I added the text just to show what this could look like in an ad.