Night for Day

This shot was actually taken during the mid-afternoon. The point was to use different colored gels to change the colors of the photograph to make it look like it was taken during the evening. The concept I was going for here was "Schoo's out!"

Beverage

Our final for my studio class was to shoot a beverage. I knew from the beginning that I wanted to do either a smoothie or a milkshake, and decided upon strawberry-banana milkshake. Had a slight setback when I went to clean my class and dropped it right before my shoot, luckily I found this one in a random cabinet in the studio! I like the way the shot turned out in the end, and it was very very tasty to eat while we were shooting :)

Where's Wendy!!!

Here is my Where's Wendy! I am not totally satisfied with the image yet, there are still a few things I would like to add to it to improve the shot a little bit, so when I have some free time to work on it and get it totally the way I want it, I will post again. I have posted the before and the after of the image to show everything that I have added. Hope you all enjoy!

Digital Zone

This was taken for an assignment in my Advanced Principles class. I would explain the assignment but to any non-photography savvy people it would sound like gibberish, so here it is! Hope you all like it. I especially like the highlights on the chrome, and the fact that the bike is orange :)

Where's Waldo?

For my Digital Image Illustration II class our final project is a composite of at least 15 different images put together to make one. It took me quite a while to finally come up with a good concept for this, but I landed upon Where's Waldo. I am using a panoramic scene of a local park. I am also photographing other people at the park and compositing them into my scene. And yes, there will be a waldo! I am super excited for this project and it is coming along nicely! I am going to be doing some more shooting for it tomorrow but I wanted to let you all know what my big project I am working on right now is, and hopefully get you as excited about it as I am! I will post original "Where's Waldo" scenes on my blog with my updates to keep you all entertained until my finished product :)

Copy a Painting

For my studio class my second assignment was to find a painting and copy it EXACTLY. I chose to do a painting of Raspberries, thinking it would be relatively easy... little did I know. Copying the painting exactly also meant placing the Raspberries the same way they were placed in the painting. This took me and my amazing partner, Emily, who I owe great thanks to, about two hours! (She was very frustrated with me by the end because I am such a perfectionist. I quote "Christina, you were moving the Raspberries like not even a centimeter!") But after all that time I still think they could have been placed a little bit better, I am happy with the shot though. I had to do some color editing in photoshop due to the saturation of the painting. The larger image is my photograph. Hope you all enjoy!

Psychology of Color

For my first assignment in my Studio class we had to evoke an emotion through the psychology of color. I think everybody when they were a child remembers the yellow light that creeped into their room from the crack left open in the door. This is what I chose to recreate with my old nightstand, sock monkey, and I always had a glass of water next to me. The blue cast is to simulate the dark of the night, while the yellow light simulates the crack in the door.