pringles

This was the first assignment from James this semester. We had to be in a group and design 8 different types of product shots and our products were pringles.

The next week, we traded our designs with another group and shot the shots that the other group designed. Here are my two shots that I had to do, nothing that spectacular. but hey. I shot and edited them with in 5 hours. I think they are pretty fun shots.


This was a shot that was designed by Doug and when we designed them, we weren't sure if we were going to have to shoot them or not. Doug had designed a shot with the pringles man in it, which wasn't possible to do. I thought of doing a silo type thing of a person eating pringles instead and while editing them, I layered different exposures of the shots and made the pringle and the can pop out of the silo with a layer mask.This was a simple product shot, using an interesting angle. Rachel designed this shot and she said I did her shot perfectly. =]

Exposures: shot one = 1/125s @ f/22
shot two= 1/125s @ f/16
both shot in the RCC studio with bronocolor lights.

let me know what you think!

Self promo #4 (process 1)

these shots I did in the studio the other night..
they are for my selfpromo #4 assignment, its kind of an illustration/conceptual shot..
I rented these rotary dial phones from this great local antique store..

If you know me, you know I LOVE everything vintage and love shooting antique and vintage anything/everything. So this was fun, the idea actually came to me while walking thru the store looking for something to shoot.

These are unedited, I haven't done any photoshopping on these really.
the background wasn't as white as I wanted when I looked at them in bridge, but they were on the little LCD screen.. I don't know why, I think because bridge corrects them.. So when I take off all the auto exposure checks, it fixes most of the background effect that was happening in bridge - it was kind of a vingetting effect.. Ill end up fixing the autoexposure & editing them slighting post.

here are the process shots.. to show I lit it and my set up.



here are some of the actual shots..



all of these were shot with a d100, 24-85mm also a 17mm lens. I used broncolor primo pack, a soft box to light the phones and two heads with reflectors to light the back ground.
my original IDEA was the first shot with the 3 phones.. I like symmetry, asymmetry and lines and design and stuff like that.. the second shot is one of my favorites because they are two of my favorite colors, its close up, and the design is nice - also I like the light(I kind of wish the highlights in the phone were a bit softer or not so hot) .. its kind of cute! my phones are cuddling! heh.

so anyhow.. I really liked what came out of that shoot.
exposures: 3 phones - 1/100s @ f/8.
bottom shot - 1/100s @ f/9.
I shot them on white Plexiglas.. it didn't become as white as I like it to.
Oh well.
I might try it again sometime with just white background paper..to see how different the results are.. perhaps less shadow and I wouldn't have that reflection.
because I shot in the cove, the background is really white so I figure I would just use the white sweep and light it up..

I am pretty happy with the results, I might do a little more editing on these and I have to pick my final shots of all the ones I shot ( I might go with my original idea or do something kind of different..we'll just have to see) - the assignment is due MONDAY! so perhaps I'll post my final choice then..

enjoy =]

Colored water continued..

Hola.
These are the last three words from the colored water assignment from spring 2006. This one above is "PLAIN". They are all shot on 35mm transparency film in the studio. These last 3 from the series of 4, are shot on light tables in the studio.
this word was "COLD/cool". They are colored ice cubes from an ice cube tray.

this word was "BOLD".

(thatisallfromcoloredwater!)

I am now in my Fall 2006 semester at RCC, a second year commerical student. There will be much more to come, all continually improved work. Summer semester 2006 taught us all a lot, it was the hardest semester of my life - but i did great and worked hard. I can't wait to see how much I have and will continue to improve through out this next semester from these photos from Spring(second) semester at RCC.

I will post more current work from summer semester soon and will be posting a lot of work from this fall semester 2006.

<3

Welcome!

Welcome! I am a Randolph Community College commerical photo student. This photo was taken in spring semester 2006. It was part of the colored water assignment and the word was "warm/hot". It was shot on 35mm transparency film.

DUE 8/25/06: This is a good 'portfolio' piece because its one of my favorite shots that i did earliest here @ RCC. It has vivid color and a nice compostion. This is a representation of how i am moving and learning with my photography, if you look at my current work, its similar to this but better technically and shows my progess and how well i have learned since I've been here.