Using sepia film left behind by Polaroid and bought through the Impossible Project, I guess.

Shot number 3 out of 12 on the pack. Trying to preserve this stuff as much as possible as it's pricy.

Burned up house on Siksika Nation.

Hoodoo Provincial Park.

"Hoodoos are eroded pillars of soft sandstone rock, topped with a resilient cap. The cap protects the softer rock underneath from eroding as quickly as the surrounding rock. Once the cap deteriorates, the pillar is more vulnerable to the elements and is subjected to rapid deterioration."

Going through the external hard drive to keep me entertained.

I was debating keeping it in colour but it was pretty posterized and really grained as I'm sure you can tell. Best to go for black and white in that situation in my mind. Also, bumped the exposure quite a lot. If you've seen my mountain shot I was going for the same feel.

This is the Keane concert that went down in September 2009.

Spread as presented in class.

Critique:
Strong.
Can see it in specific magazines: GQ, Esquire etc...
Action.
Dynamic.
Engaging.
Clothing control.
Big improvement.
Applying things learned.
Good locations.
Good composition.
Very different from previous work.
Fits well in frame.
If the fence is edited out it could pass for a beach if kept in black and white.
Ambercrombie & Fitch
More of the figure on the right?
Doesn't look like Calgary [France was suggested]
Detail in pants needed?
Smoke and match needed?
Interesting with smoke.
Sandwich board distracting.

What I've taken from critique to the left image is I cropped on the right hand side a small bit to the edge of the window. There were some architectural lines that were deemed distracting. I dodged the smoke around the models head to bring it out more. I also burned down the sandwich board to try and have it recede and got rid of a couple little spots in the windows.

Mags I looked at before shooting:
Esquire US/UK, Nylon, Details, GQ US/UK, Fantastic Man & Man About Town.

Yet another shot I like from Big Rock. I didn't choose this one for presentation because I didn't think it worked as well with the half-suit shot I chose as the other one. Plus I'm unsure about the really dark background due to a very blue sky that day.

Final assignment for my Digital Imaging class.

This is the outline as quoted:
"Choosing either fairy tale or archetype as your theme, create an image that could be used in an editorial fashion spread, keeping in mind an avant-garde execution or style. You could apply avant-garde reasoning to your subject matter as well if you would like.

Please keep in mind this is not a product shot of a shoe, or a catalogue description of the latest fall lines. This image is all about evoking a mood or memory, and does not necessarily have to be about a particular piece of clothing."

I went the punk rock direction as my friend, LR, pointed out. I didn't really know where I was going. I felt like all the high school smokers smoking by the Jesus statue in the courtyard. [I went to a catholic school. That statue has a story behind it but I will get to that another time.]

I think these shots follow the assignment really well. It's much more about the lifestyle of some punks smoking in a back alley after getting away from a fight rather than the plaid coat.

Critique:
Last one sticks out more because it isn't soft.
Could be a drunk student.
Possibly schizophrenic.
Unsure about the focus.
Want of consistent lighting through all three images.
Is being the model and photographer difficult?
Could have lit the background to give it more dimension.
The model [me] is too clean.
The model is not greasy enough.
The nail on the finger giving the finger is too pretty.

The final image for an open project that must have complex lighting. My good friend RT was a very good model.

This image came about after a lighting demo which used the same technique as Jill Greenberg, the photographer known for those crying baby photos. I think they are very funny (though they are probably not intended to be) and wanted to extend it into the adult world.

Adults don't usually express emotions so openly as children. We are much more subtle the majority of the time. Even though this is staged I think the anguish and frustration comes across very well.

I also have never used 5 lights in a shot before. I much prefer natural light or the simplest lighting possible. It was a really nice challenge to try and get 5 lamps to work together to achieve this shot.

If you read my <a href="http://jamieobviously.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow">blog</a> you will have seen the image that one of my teachers set up using 4 strobe lamps and a ring flash. This image was trying to duplicate that set up without the ring flash as my school does not own one.

There is one lamp on a boom above and behind. Two kicker lights on either side which also bounce off two large bounce cards an off camera flash with a bounce card in front of and below for a little fill and a hot lamp for pupil dilation (even though not utilized in this particular shot.) A large roll of yellow paper was used for the backdrop.

There is a decent amount of editing done to this image. The strobe lights didn't have enough power to overcome the hot lamp so it was very warm. Saturation on the cardi and face were taken down. Colour on the background pumped up just a bit.

Critique:
The colour really frames the subject.
Nice gradient pushing the focal point to the centre.
Muted wardrobe helps to get rid of the models body drawing more attention to the face.
The focal point IS his face.
Yellow really helps the anguish/frustration/man who forgot about his taxes. Another colour such as red would change the mood to anger or violence.

Perhaps somewhat of a product shot for the Treeson Bubble Fun edition. I really wanted to feature the structure of this treeson. I find his body to be so much fun to touch and hold. It is a really dynamic surface. I think both images really show that, The right side one is a detail shot using a 12mm extention tube to get a macro effect while not being really really close.

I used all natural lighting, the window can be seen in the bubble. I chose the clear bubble as it is the only one I have in Calgary with me, and while the other bubbles are really cute I didn't want them to distract too much from the other elements. A little face on the bubble would do that, I think.

I like the grey background as pink and grey go well together and it's also non-distracting with nothing else on it. I think if it were white it would look too much like stock photography and I didn't want that for this.

This 8&quot; pink Treeson is so cute and fun to shoot. He was a very good model.