Sensuality part 2

 The last post on September 13th was about Sensuality. This is the second post about the shoot because the third assignment in my class was a re-shoot on the images. I can't say that it is a good thing, or it wasn't an annoying thing because it was both annoying but helped me improve on a concept.
Conceptually I do believe I have improved a lot from the initial blog post and not only that but I also did two shoot for this one so I had a better idea of what I wanted for an end result. Two of the images I am using for my class but the others are just more examples
of what could have been prints.

Casual Portraits

So I had my studio lights up today to do a little bit of re-shooting for the Sensuality assignment which more images will appear from that soon. Right after that small amount of images that were taken for the re-shoot I decided to do a bit of casual portraits of her. That weren't of trying to chow down food as grossly as possibly.

Keeping with my class standards that I am going to try to keep from now on I will be using square format as I am quite fond of it. With this as a constant practice I hope to become quite comfortable with the square format. Anyway this is Mahkayla, she is my wonderful new friend in San Francisco, she has never appeared on the blog until now but you will end up seeing more of her in the future.

So this is just a general portrait study for the square format. Since it is digital it isn't considered medium format but I will be shooting more 120mm film once I get a way to scan the shots down here. Hopefully in the near future I will have the equipment.

Sensuality

Well my second assignment for PH100 is Sensuality. When I initially brainstormed what I could do for this I thought about my audience and how mentioning "Sensuality" and the word "Sensual"make most peoples minds, mine as well to something more sexual. Well I decided to play off that and the actual meaning with what goes a long with the senses. Sensual is something perceived by the senses  so a small amount of innuendo and the tastes and smells you get from the objects also pictured is somewhat of my small sensory overload. If budget wasn't an issue these would have more going on in them making the images themselves to also be visually overloaded but these are raw images, so no editing. The only alteration was the crop to square formatting.

On the subject of square formatting there will be a lot more of that coming from me in the near future. I really like putting everything in the square. It makes digital feel like more of a challege since my camera in RAW shoots 8x12's so cutting 4 inches off of an image might give me a new challenge.

Assignment 1 - PH 100

So here is my first assignment for PH100 at AAU. It was basically free range with no editing. It was just suppose to have proper exposure so I decided to play with my macro lens. I haven't had a lot of practice using this as a macro lens but I feel like I was able to get a good texture quality with it with a strong depth of field which is really nice. I am going to start uploading all my assignments on here along with my personal work and other things to catalog everything that I have been doing. This is just the only boring portion telling you guys what I am doing.

So the first image was of my new wonderful friend Mahkayla's jeans, the second image is of my foot. Yes, I know it is a nice fancy wrinkly foot but my feet are strong. The third is of my favorite pair of pants.  These are just a preview of my first assignment but there will be more and more interesting class work a head.