Sushi

"My weaknesses have always been food and men - in that order."- Dolly Parton

This is the last picture I shot for my object lighting class. I wanted to do another food shoot, but with something prepared instead of fresh food, which is what I had done before. I had a lot of fun with this shoot, and the sushi was absolutely delicious!

Outdoor Portrait

"A photograph is memory in the raw." ~Carrie Latet

You might remember Clayton from another post I did. I had the pleasure of working with him again for my portrait portfolio. I wanted to do just a casual, outdoor portrait of him at his house.

This was shot with a D300, 80-200mm lens, at ISO 400, at 1/80 and f/4.

Fresh Food

"It's difficult to think anything but pleasant thoughts while eating a homegrown tomato." -Lewis Grizzard

This is another picture I shot for my Biocommunications Object Lighting portfolio. I have become really interested in photographing food. For some reason, in a design sense, food really speaks to me. I'm really looking forward to shooting food more often, and want to start trying more studio setups to look like a kitchen or dinner table. I also want to shoot some simple prepared food.



This is a picture of my setup. The fork and tomato are between the two white boards. I held the fork up vertically with a large studio clamp. I originally wanted a white background (hence the white backdrop,but found that I liked it better on the black background because it made both the metal and the color of the tomato pop.

I used a Nikon D300, 60mm macro lens, at ISO 200, 1/50 sec., and f/29.

Leaves

"Caress the detail, the divine detail."-Vladimir Nabokov

While walking down the sidewalk at my apartment and looking at all of the leaves, I had the idea to backlight them on a light table and shoot them with a macro lens to pick up all the fine details and capture the brilliance and variations in the color. I originally wanted to shoot it as a "pleasure" shot, for my own entertainment, but decided it might be a good idea to use it for my object lighting portfolio. Let me which one you like the best!



The leaves are one of the only things I like about autumn (I'm more of a spring/summer type person). There's nothing like watching the wind pick up a cloud of brightly colored leaves.

All leaves shot with a D300, 60 mm macro lens, and hot lights at ISO 200.
Leaf #1: f/4.5 @ 1/100 sec.
Leaf #2: f/7.1 @ 1/15 sec.
Leaf #3: f/7.1 @ 1/125 sec.

Caudill's Cabin Hike

"If the day and the night are such that you greet them with with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, more elastic, more starry, more immortal--that is your success." -Henry David Thoreau

This past weekend for my birthday, I decided I wanted to get outdoors to celebrate instead of having a big party. My friend and I hiked the 9.8 miles up to Caudill's Cabin. This is one of the 16 stream crossings in the hike. The last light had reached the valley, and we still had a LONG way to hike.

Some of My History

"The goal is not to change your subjects, but for the subject to change the photographer."

I have yet to post any of film from the past 3.5 years of working with it. Here are some of my favorite photographs from first year and high school.


This was taken with a Canon AE-1 Program and a 50 mm lens on 35 mm black and white film. It was shot from the top of a parking deck after a wedding in downtown Greensboro.

This is a picture of my martial arts instructor, Dave, teaching one of the adult classes. I did a documentary project on him for my first year high school photography class. I used the Canon AE-1 and a 50 mm lens with 35 mm black and white film.




I took this picture of my friend, Ben, during my first year of high school photography. Once again using the Canon AE-1, a 50 mm lens, and black and white 35 mm film.


I plan on posting more of my old work every once in a while, and hopefully breaking out some more film in the near future to get some new darkroom work up.

Chocolate!!!

"All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn't hurt."-Charles M. Schulz

This is what I shot for the Chocolate Assignment. Had a lot of fun with this shoot. Partly because I love chocolate, and I found some I am not allergic to to work with, and partly because I just love shooting food. Let me know what you think!

This is my setup. I used one speedotron flash with a softbox, one fill card, and one black card. I shot it with a D300 at ISO 200, f/10, 1/30 sec., and a 60mm macro lens.