Pre Production-Direction & Time

Time

My initial idea for the Distance is to go to the train station down in Moorpark. When I first arrived to CSUN, I had no car and had to commute from Moorpark to school. It was the first time I had ridden the train and it was a little nerve racking as I was not use to it. Transportation is one of the closest things to distance as it is the object that gets you from point A to point B, watching the people move around, frantically. The movement of the subjects and the train shows how time moves. I plan on shooting a similar image like this but with more people surrounding the area, the more people the better. I want the movement of both the train and the people to show. I would take the images before sunrise and a bit after sunrise. 

Direction

My idea for time is to do a time lapse like the one presented above. This one seems too obvious for me to do, my niche is abstract so I plan on completing this to the best of my skill. I plan on doing a grid however instead of one single spot, I plan to take photos of different town signs. I will make my own sign that reads "Almost There" and place it next to each of the city posts. Each of the pictures will have this feeling of never getting to the destination. 

Music-Hero Post

This is my favorite of the many shots I took for my Music session. I cropped the image and used the rule of thirds to leave negative space. As mentioned before I love the black and white look to images, adding a sense of mystery to them. I used a chrome microphone because I figured it would have a nice effect with the black and white and would be more noticeable with the way I was arranging my lights. In this "portrait', I used only one light, it was a hair light. I experimented this particular pose with both the hair light and a beauty dish, however the effect I was looking for was better accomplished with just he hair light.

 Before the editing and magic happened. It was a back and forth decision of how exactly I wanted to edit the image. Whether to leave it as is, to crop or not crop. Color or black and white.

The images selected below are just a few more that I loved. It was a hard choice to choose the one that would represent my favorite. Both my models were easy to interact with and
went with the flow, I made sure they were relaxed and had fun that way the pictures would come out "natural" than forcibly posed . We used movement for some shots, trying to get into the groove of music and follow the sense of feeling a song can have. I kept changing the position of the lights and turning them on and off to see which effect I would like better. Some had both, some either just the hair light or beauty dish. The last image shown, (the one with the bubble gum) was a technique Professor Schafer showed me. It was done by setting my ISO to 1600, f4, and shutter speed of 1/125. Instead of using the alien bees, I used only the light inside the room. We used white boards above the subjects and to their right side to bounce of the light. A white backdrop was placed behind and we used the black part of the v-flat to even out the light.

     




                                                                                   
















These are both of the set up shots for images presented.