More thesis madness....

So after my critique a few weeks ago I am completely all over the place with my thesis.  I have this work I used for my critique which didn't really go over too well.  Now I'm thinking about going back into my glowing figures project and possibly my projection project.  Basically I have no idea what I'm doing anymore and it's driving me crazy!  Senior year is turning out to be more of a challenge than I thought it would be but hopefully my photo shoot tonight will help me figure stuff out.  Anywho, enjoy these photos.  They're all long exposures on my Nikon D5000.  Still self portraits.  Enjoy!
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Headshots!

Hello all!

Today I had my first real experience with shooting/editing a professional headshot.  We are doing a fundraiser for my senior class' thesis show shooting headshots for $25 plus $10 for each fully edited photo so if you want one you should let me know!  Anywho, this is Emily Diehl, an amazing opera singer who works with me at Bridget Foy's.  She's already gorgeous so it wasn't hard to work with her but here is the final image, enjoy! 

I'm a SENIOR...What?

So senior year is officially underway and it's some seriously scary shit.  The idea of creating a thesis and following it all the way through to a professional quality exhibition is frightening but somewhat exciting.  For tomorrow's senior workshop we were required to bring in some new work.  I have been in a bit of a rut for a while so it was really hard for me to come up with something.  Hence me shooting my work the night before it's due for a critique.  These are all abstracted nudes (of myself...eep) because I was my only available model.  I imagine these will get a lot better over time but I actually don't hate the way they turned out.  Let me know what you think!

All images shot with a Nikon D5000 in my bedroom with a clamp light

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More Glow Sticks

So one of the benefits of being home for a week is that I finally got the chance to stock up on glow sticks.  The dollar store near me had them for a dollar a pack....and lets just say I went a little crazy.  For this weeks assignment for David Graham's class (which I will sadly not be attending due to family problems) we were supposed to re-visit one of our previous projects.  Since I had bought more glow sticks I knew I wanted to play with them...the only downfall was that I did not have an assistant for these ones.  I think they are a little weaker than my last attempt...but I suppose you can't win them all.  So enjoy some more naked Felicia!

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Chest

Head

Hands

Feet

Legs

Waist

Even MORE naked ladies!

Just got some more permission so here are seven more beautiful ladies two of whom I have known since high school!  And for those of you who are photographers out there you should hire Lauren Gates as your casting director...she is amazing at finding models! (and at being one)
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Brandi

Michelle

Taylor

Shannon

Lauren

Shana

Sarah

First Half of my OFFICIALLY EDITED Dream Series!!!

Hello All!!

So I have been working for weeks on this shoot, torturing many amazing girls by making them lay upside-down on a table basically dangling close to death.  They were all great sports and gave me some beautiful photographs!  These are the final digital edits for this series but as seen in the post a few before this one I am slowly but surely converting them all into Gum Bichromate diptychs.  Let me know what you think!
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Leslie

Noel

Abigail

Hannah (aka Rapunzel with red hair)

Oh!  Also this is only a few of them because I'm still working on getting permission from all of my models to post these online.

On Location Lighting!

So after a fun 2 hours of wandering the streets of Philadelphia with my awesome classmates I came up with these pretty sweet street shots.  It was my first time using a Range Finder and I have to say I kind of love it.  Although I am not a huge fan of street/fashion photography playing with this light equipment was definitely fun enjoy!

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FINALLY Some non-silver madness

It has taken me forever to get these darn things photographed...and now that I have I figured I'd share them with you.  Enjoy! (sorry about the crappy reflections on the gum prints, I had issues with the copy stand)

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CMYK Separation in Gum Bichromate

CMYK Separation in Gum Bichromate

Cyanotype toned with tanic acid

CMYK Gum Bichromate

Cyanotype toned with Tanic Acid

Cyanotype on wood

Vandyke on handmade paper

Vandyke on handmade paper

Vandyke on handmade paper

Vandyke on handmade paper

Vandyke on handmade paper

Sooooooo Busy!

So between working on my final for my studio class and converting a lot of my photos into non-silver prints I have been to busy to update this thing.  I apologize!  In an attempt to escape my nudies which seem to consume my life these days, I have been playing with light and string.  Oh and mason jars.  They're just a fun little thing I did for David's class so I hope you enjoy them!  And look forward to lots of non-silver scans and awesome beautiful naked women hanging upside down!

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Somehow managed a decent photo

Despite everything else going down-hill today I somehow managed to get a good photo out of the shoot I had yesterday. I based my idea off of a Man Ray photograph. I wanted to use the complete blackness to abstract the body even more. I shot this with two photopro grid spots and an octobox with my Nikon D5000. Enjoy!

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Studio Re-edit

So a few weeks ago we had an assignment to create a portrait with dramatic lighting. I created one that received a mass amount of criticism so when we were assigned a project to re-edit one of our previous projects I decided to challenge myself with this photo. I am pretty happy about the outcome. Enjoy!

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