Today was the day we photographed 2D objects in the studio. I know a book like this isn't exactly a 2D object but it was the only thing I had around that I figured would work for this assignment.

Here is my tour book I bought at the Keane concert in September 2009. Happily I got it signed after the show and it now sits on my shelf, content.

For you nerds it was a two light set up, some sort of rectangular hot lights, one either side at roughly 45 degrees. On a proper photo studio table, yellow roll for a seamless. Camera in the middle on a tripod. There was a bit of post done. standard sharpening and some colour balance/adjustment to bring up the background yellow to match the yellow triangles of the book.

One of two shots I am choosing between for my "perfect" food shot. I'm leaning toward this one because it isn't the full view and I think it is still readable as a big bowl of Lucky Charms marshmallows.

I chose to do a bowl full of Lucky Charms marshmallows. I don't know about you but I know as a kid I wished Lucky Charms was just the marshmallows. It would save me time eating the actual cereal part and then the marshmallows.

Any thoughts on both images is welcome. Which one is more suited for publication in an editoral sense or advertising context as well.

Natural lighting from the big [and only] window in my room at about 1:30 in the afternoon.

PB creatively enough stands for Pink Bear who I named when old enough to be able. This is my first teddy bear I got the day of my birth. PB is now also 24 years old and he's looking good.

This photo was taken during one of those mental blizzards in December that hit Calgary. Nice diffused light. Mmmm...

Yes, PB is a boy.

First 4x5 negative scanned and de dusted. There was a hell of a lot of dust...

My friend R in his Lucha Libre mask posing in a suit. Doesn't get any classier.

Double exposure by the way.

Day light film shot in a studio with tungsten light and crossed processed E-6 style. This is why the colours are wild.

L dressed as a hipster photographer. L is not a hipster for the record.
I bought him that shirt.

Your art sucks.

There seems to be a vast supply of hipsters at school so this may apply to many of them.

Letting the audience sing along to Somewhere Only We Know... pretty sure that was the track.

I got a haircut a while ago and yes, I've been keeping this ever since because I wanted to document it somehow.
I kept it because I am going to donate it very soon [now that i have documented it] to an organization that makes wigs for people with cancer.

It's hard to tell but there is about 7 inches or so of hair there which is the required length for the one place I'm going to bring it to.

I've never done this before but I hope it works out as hair can be a big thing in our lives without us knowing. Just look at all the media attention toward balding men and how they can fix it. Hair transplants etc... I want to give my hair to a bit of a better cause, people who are really sick who have lost their hair to a terrible illness which has effected my own life.

Instead of giving the cause money, which I'm not against, I want to do something a little more personal.