“To take photographs is to put one’s head, one’s eye and one’s heart on the same axis.” — Henri Cartier-Bresson
Monday, December 5, 2011
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Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Smoke Show: Final Project
My final project was a bit of the challenge. It took me weeks to come up with a project that I had never done, was inexpensive and I didn’t need a model for (the end of the semester is a difficult time to find people who have time to help). I finally decided to look at doing a still life. This quickly proved to be boring, that’s when I came upon Smoke photography.
With the help of the Internet and trial and error I was able to effectively capture smoke and the shapes and figures it creates. I loved and hated how quickly shapes were created and disappeared. It was quite the challenge capturing images that I liked. Lighting was the other challenge I faced. At first I side lighted the smoke, and as you can see in my contact sheets it was pretty unsuccessful. I panicked for about ten minutes before realizing that moving the light to be on a 45-degree angle and backlighting the smoke you were able to see it clearly. This was the must successful way I found to create the effect I wanted.
I’d like to thank my friend Garrett for being an awesome photo assistant, and Serena for letting me smoke up her house at random hours of the night.
Monday, May 2, 2011
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