This week I got to shoot some family photos some friends. It was experience, it is sure a lot different from shooting solo portraits, but a good outcome and some good money. Thats always good. I didn’t get a whole lot of other shooting in this week, I really wanted to shoot some urban stuff but it didn’t happen due to the quick loss of snow.
On to the family photos. The ones out doors were shot with a high ISO due to how dark it was outside at the time and I didn’t want to flash because the reflection and shadows it brought. So I found this great software called Topaz DeNoise and seriously it blew my mind away with how much it saved me. I highly reccomend purchasing this software because this give you the chance to shoot indoors (or out doors) with low light and high ISO. The photos I though turned out great. It gave me a goo chance to break out of my norm and learn some more photography and get experience with multiple models.
The studio shots turned out I think better, Casey and Gabe (models) seemed to be a bit more photogenic and really brought out their true personalities. Here are the photos. Also Twitchell, I have the sketch for the surrealism at the bottom of the post.
For my surrealism project, I am really going for a combination of a dark, erie feeling. You are not able to see what my mind sees and I tried sketching it out, but I am a horrible drawer. It will be a combination of 5+ photos, Base layer is going to be a lake with a very slow shutter, so it looks like it is clouds. 2nd layer will be clouds with high detail and very enhanced with texture. 3rd lay will conceive of a sunset, but very dark, almost a purple color. 4th layer I want to get some mountains in between the lake and the sky. Final layer will be a person standing in the middle of the lake, larger than a normal person so it gives the model a superiority feeling and will have a great, dark feeling to the whole photo. I hope it turns out as I have planned :/
-Steve
Nice job once again and a great variety. When shooting against a dark/black background, try to get some light inbetween the subject and the background. By doing this there is some separation between the two. As is, the subjects and the background blend together some. The outside shots are very nice.