Art 550 photography Pt.1

When you are in grad-school you have to take electives.  Some are extra baggage, some are real joys, advanced digital photography was the latter.  This week and next week I'll show off some of my highlights from each of the assignments and talk about them briefly.

One of our special guests was the imaginative Thomas Allen who uses images and cover art and Xacto knives to make stunning composite photographs.  All of his effects are done in frame and take time to compose.  He gave a lecture then we got the opportunity to replicate his style as best we could.

We were supposed to look at texture for this assignment and this peeling paint really caught my eye.

I took these photographs of my grandfather in his garden.  It was early in the morning and the light was just perfect.  We were doing a character study.

We did several light trick assignments where everything had to happen in frame on long exposure.  I spun a lightsaber in a circle while walking past the camera for this one except I inverted the color to make it a light color.

Here I used a pin-light and drew a bicycle.  It took my many, many tries to get it right and my bicycle got a little more complicated and accurate each time.

This neat picture was done by first flashing the lightsaber behind me then spinning the pen-light on a string around where I had been standing.  Because it was on long exposure the lightsaber created my shadow and the spiral appeared to go around it even though I had moved.