Self Promo #2: Powder Explosion

For my second self promo, i wanted to go with another beauty shot to match the first one. I really wanted to show off the vibrancy and density of this eyeshadow by NYX. My younger sister, Taylor, was kind enough to model for me.

Self Promo #1: Heavy Metal

Last week we were assigned to shoot two self promos. Self promos are shots that can be of anything we want, however we want, as long as we keep it commercial. Since i really want to shoot beauty products and fashion, i went with a nail polish ad. Using my favorite bottle of Sonia Kashuk metallic nail polish, i spent about 4 hours just shooting alone in the studio. I played with different angles, placement and patterns of poured nail polish. I settled on this shot, because it really showed off the product and was very clean.

Bokeh.

Bokeh is japanese for blur. It describes the aesthetic quality of the blur in the background of a photograph. This week we had to shoot a photo which showed bokeh. This was a very simple shoot and luckily my sister was nice enough to model for me late at night.

Small Format: 35mm portrait

Today we had to quickly shoot two portraits using our lens set at 35mm. These portraits were also used in our study of histograms.
I shot my beautiful fellow classmate Molly Mullin. You can also check out her work at:http://mollymullinphoto.blogspot.com/

Self Promo.

During digital class, john rash gave us about an hour and a half to shoot, edit and upload sort of a "self portrait". This was shot by my fellow classmate, Brandon Warren, using a Canon 5D Mark II with a lensbaby "control freak".

Hair.

I love these.