I must admit that my photography work has felt less intense than my design work for this semester so far. Maybe it's because I'm more comfortable with the medium? Something I really love about studying both photography and graphic design is that the two blend together really well. I'll have the photography skill to take my own images for design projects and the design skill to showcase my photos well in other mediums. I'm sure that the workload will pick up as the semester goes on, but here is some of my recent photography work!
These should look familiar, they also appeared in my last post! I'm in love with the crazy architecture of these two buildings, and I think that these two photos aren't bad for being shot on my iPhone! The weather this day was very rainy, so I didn't want to risk damaging my camera.
These two are from my first Studio Photography assignment. In that class, we'll be slowly building our knowledge of studio setups, which actually starts with natural light. We drew inspiration from photographers like Richard Avedon, who took some really incredible portraits with all natural light. The assignment was to do an outdoor portraiture shoot with a seamless backdrop. I had the pleasure of shooting with one of my closest friends, Karen (@general_karebear on Instagram) as a model, and my roommate Raina as a photo assistant. I have two cloth backdrops that would work for this situation, so I took them outside and hung them over a fence in a shaded area. A great way to get natural light is to position your subject right at the edge of a shaded area so that there are no harsh shadows from being in the sun and it's not too dark in the shade. I didn't quite get the "seamless" part of the project because I forgot to iron my backdrops, but that's not the sort of thing that would be counted against me. The wrinkles add a character of their own!
If these look familiar, it's because I have posted images from this project before! These are from one of the sessions I did working on a 3D advertisement project. The final image I'm using for the project is an overhead shot, but these images are so beautiful on their own that I couldn't not share them! I love the warm tones on the clean white background. A bonus was that working with spices like vanilla bean, cinnamon, cloves, and star anise meant that my whole work space smelled heavenly!
These two are a couple of selects from my first Intermediate Commercial Photography project. For the first couple of weeks, we were analyzing the photographs in magazines that were in the field of photography we were interested in, I was looking at a magazine called Where Women Cook because I'm interested in food photography. The next step was to take our observations and apply them in a real life situation by capturing photos that could theoretically be published in the magazine we chose.
The church I attend while I'm at school has a cafe on their property and I've been volunteering there as a barista since October. Working there is so much fun and I knew it was the perfect place for this assignment.
And that's the update for this month! As for upcoming things, I've got another studio shoot coming up, I'll be revisiting my images from the cafe project, and moving forward on a new commercial photography assignment where a classmate will be acting as my "photo editor" and I'll photograph something in their field of interest with my own style. The next updates posts will be coming in March, so stay tuned!
Thanks for reading!
xx, Hannah
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