For my final project I have done silhouettes. Silhouettes are probably some of the most powerful photos along with black and white photos. They really share a lot of emotion and a deeper story than the normal photos. Silhouettes are very graphic and are very symbolic, they show the viewer the beauty in the shapes but with out the very fine detail, but still show textures. Silhouettes can bring many of different feelings to our complex minds, but with these eight photos I would like you to see more than the simple feelings. Through these photos, I have accomplished sharing beauty, contentedness, joy, pride and sorrow. All of these being feeling I have felt with in the last few months.

I have spent lots of time on these photos and hope to really reach people with them. This has been one of the most challenging, yet one of the most exciting photo projects. I have spent the past month trying to get these photos and trying to get them perfect to their full potential. I feel that with these photos I can really share the emotions I have been feeling this past month. With that being said, here are the photos. Enjoy:

With all these photos I have been dependent on the natural light. With the sunset on the lake photo, if I had done that one 5 minutes after, I would not have gotten nearly the same image that I did. Same with the bench photo of Scott. Silhouettes are so challenging to capture, but for most of these, I was in the right place, at the right time. I would like to give special thanks to Joey Ozol, Scott Sturges, and Zack Black for giving me the privilege to photograph them and let me share a little bit of my story through my eyes. Also a special thanks to Cole Barash, my inspiration for this whole project.

Thanks, for viewing,

-Steve

Not in the tattoo way, but in the food dye way. Yesterday, I made a trip out to Spokane, WA to pick up a fish tank. There are various reasons to have a fish tank such as: fish, snakes, lizards, iguanas, sharks, or just a glass tank. But I didn’t choose any of those, I got it for photos of dye dispersing throughout the water.

Set up: I shot this with strobe behind the fish tank with a white sheet behind the glass. With the power of the strobe behind the white sheet, the water was blown out inside the tank. With the back ground blown out, the ink looks like it is just floating in the air. Here is a link/inspiration for this project: http://www.michaelklothphotography.com/ its a pretty simple/easy concept.

I really like this red and the green ones, those were my favorite but the mixture ink ones turned out very well. This really opened my eye up to see what else I can do with water photography and I will be pushing to try this more and with different objects/substances. Here are the shots:

Thanks a lot, please comment, it’s always appreciated.

-Steve

I wasn’t too hyped on this project for class but I need to try it and get better at it. Surrealism takes a lot of time, a lot of patience, and a lot of trail and error. That is my conclusion. I originally wanted to do a shot of something to do with a lake and a man walking on it. Didn’t happen. So I changed it. I got inspired by a Dragon Ball Z thing that someone posted on Facebook. So for this photo, I shot a photo of fire on a orange ball. Later on Twitch told me that rubber cement works really well for fire-coated objects. I will defiantly try that in the future! Then I had a studio shot of Brandon, looking like he was shooting fire out of his hands. It took me a long time to find a brush set that I liked, but I finally found one. http://www.photoshoproadmap.com/links/go/1346 That place really had the best fire brushes I could find. I surfed around for some other ones, but this had the effect I was going for. All around, this photo did not turn out what I wanted. I wanted an animated, dragon ball z power flame bursting out of his hands. But I did learn about brushes and how to make a good coated fire ball. 1 ftw. Here is the photo:

-Steve

Not For School Twitch, personal post.

Christmas Break, it’s been a fantastic one. Relaxing, snowboarding, and yes, I skied. I have realized that skiing is a ton of fun, and I might be purchasing a pair of my own. Over this break I did a bunch of shooting, but I have not posted the shots yet.

Landscapes: they can go exceptionaly well, or they can go morbidly wrong. Either way, it’s good to do it. I was in Sandpoint, ID staying with some family I have up there and my brother Scott and I decide to go shooting around town. We really wanted some photos of the long bridge up there, but could not get a decent angle. We drove all the way around to the other side of the bridge and ended up at this beach. It turned out to be an epic shoot, and I got lucky, I was shooting into the sun. That can be great, it can be bad, but in this case, it was wonderful. I got some pretty good shots and I’m pleased on how they turned out.

Now on the New Year’s Eve. I spent New Year’s Eve down town Spokane, WA for a rail jam. Not planning on shooting, I had one of my best friends shoot some photos for me. After a while, I decide to shoot for the rest of the night. Not a bad idea because some of the shots turned out a lot better than I had expected.

It was rain/snow conditions but my gear held through it like a champ. Please comment, critique the photos, its always appreciated.

-Steve