Persona Project: Reshoot

I felt very unsatisfied with the photos I showed in critique on Tuesday and I just had to reshoot as soon as possible. The projector has been working again so I was finally able to reshoot this weekend. Here is what I got...

Persona Project Silent Critique

I found that the silent critique was very helpful. A lot of the comments and suggestions I got were similar to those given to me by my teachers who have looked at the photos before. It was interesting to see how everyone thought the same thing after looking at the photos. Some of these comments included making the photographs black and white, making the polaroid boarder less bright and less distracting, trying different locations in my house, and experimenting with different body positions. I am definitely going to try all the suggestions I got, just to see what happens.

Environmental Portraiture: In Class Assignment

......and last but not least 

Preview to Persona Project

I have had this idea for a while now and have just been itching to actually do it, but haven't found the time to make it home to photograph. I have been exploring my identity a lot in my BFA work, which has lead me to think about my past and my childhood. These photographs and memories from my childhood really are a part of who I am and are somewhat imprinted in me forever.

In Class Portrait Assignment

Butterfly Lighting.... 

The Set Up

Three Point Lighting 

The Set Up

Loop Lighting

The Set Up

.............and just for funzies!

Artist Lecture: Brigham Dimick

I was really excited for Brigham Dimick's artist lecture since I had a studio visit with him right before and I was curious to see what his work looked like. Right from the start of his lecture, I was impressed with his work. The first couple of drawings that he showed were so complex and interesting to look at. I felt like I could really relate to his work, since he creates a lot of these spaces in his drawings from his own mind. At one point he talked about his artistic process and how before he starts to work on a piece, he thinks about what it means to be human. I found this very interesting and inspiring in a way. I also really liked how he had a lot of his large drawings unfinished in some corners. He spoke about how he was interested in opening the forms on the page and the idea of the unfinished sections being apart of the drawing. I really liked these drawings and how the very detailed sections of the drawing would just fade into nothing. There was also one drawing that he showed that really interested me because he combined real objects, bricks in this case, with the drawing. I found this to be very similar to what I am experimenting with right now. The one piece that he showed that I loved the most was the beehive cut outs of his head. Its really hard for me to explain it, or even understand how he did it, but I just loved the whole meaning behind the piece, since he was deathly allergic to bees. It was like he was trying to make peace with them. He also displayed these pieces in such a beautiful way, by lighting them from the back. Overall I really enjoyed this lecture since I found that I could relate to a lot of his work and his style of working. Here are some images of my favorite pieces by him.

Butterfly Lighting

Butterfly lighting is created by placing a light above the subject, about 25 to 75 degrees in line with the face of the subject. This type of lighting creates a "butterfly looking" shadow below the subjects nose. A reflector is often used below the subjects face, in order to soften the shadows. Here is an example of the lighting set up, from a birds eye perspective.

Here are a couple examples of some portraits that use Butterfly Lighting.