Portfolio Overview
Click below to see an overview of my Advanced Photography
https://www.flickr.com/photos/156028554@N08/albums/with/72157680272894338
Start Small Think Big (Client Partnership)
In this assignment, we were partnered with an organization called Start Small Think Big, helping entrepreneurs with headshots for their Linkedin’s, professional websites or social media or photos of the products from their businesses.
Please click the links to view the photos
Donnette (Beauty Entrepreneur)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/156028554@N08/albums/72157707433612435
Ryan (Food & Service Entrepreneur)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/156028554@N08/albums/72157704119517042
William (Electrician)
https://www.flickr.com/photos/156028554@N08/albums/72157706052616381
Holly (Food & Service Entrepreneur) Product Shots
https://www.flickr.com/photos/156028554@N08/albums/72157680272894338
Final Photoshoot Proposal
My concept for my final Advanced photography photo shoot was inspired by the challenges my friends, family and I faced during this past year. Basically, we are all in our early 20’s juggling work, school and a variety of other issues that can become physically, emotionally and psychologically draining on a person’s well being. Speaking for myself and what I’ve experienced from others these various challenges can take us to very dark and negative spaces in our minds, so I want to do a portrait shoot depicting that. I want the shoot to be transitional going from a depressed, stressed, overwhelming and dark feeling to something more hopeful and positive like finding light at the end of the tunnel. My subjects will include four people (family members, friends, spouse). My audience is young people like us who are also going through some of the most difficult times in our lives trying to be successful and live well but at the same time feeling like we’re running out of time. We fall into pits of depression so deep we often become our own worst enemies doubting ourselves and our abilities thinking we’ll never reach the finish line. I want to see this all narrated by the text from Langston Hughes’ poem Harlem. In the dark scenes, I want to see my subjects in a lot of shadow like a partial silhouette in the more positive scenes I want a more hopeful light setting. In the dark settings, my subjects will be wearing dark clothes to add to the mood, in the more positive settings they will be wearing clothing and props that depict what their future aspirations or dreams are. All of this will be backlit in the color red because it represents a feeling of pain and anguish but also passion and strength. This idea can also be explored in a still life by photographing objects representing negative behavior like alcohol, drugs, razor blades and objects representing a person’s aspirations like books, artwork, cameras, etc. My inspirations for concept and lighting are works from Gregory Heisler, Nick Fancher and Jordan Peele’s poster art for his recent horror film “Us”.
Please click the link to see the full album
https://www.flickr.com/photos/156028554@N08/albums/72157708680208944
