Photography Studio 1

I was fortunate enough to receive a press pass for a Lethbridge Hurricanes game to accompany my best friend Cody to help him shoot some behind the scene video. Of course I brought my camera with me to see if I could capture the game well on film. I’m super happy with the results and it was an incredible learning experience to better comprehend my focus distancing in fast paced settings. The film is ilford hp5 pushed 2 stops to 1600. 

For this assignment I wanted to limit myself to taking photos of things that had to do with cars only. That being license plates parking signs, and car models.  I cropped everything in vertical fashion and stiches them together into this even square structure that I find compelling. It is meant to invite the user in nice and close to figure out what is even going on. I love it.

  For this post I want to reflect on my process when posing Leah and the process behind my work. In my technical post I will include my lighting setup and how I achieved my look once I have the film scanned from that day.  Leah and I checked out a few books to reference and here are some of the photos that I liked the most and wanted to reference. Avedon's way of allowing the subject's personality to bleed through into the portraits is what I wanted to replicate. (Also taking a page of Karsh's book in subject) My goal was to reveal Leah's attributes and how I few her everyday in the studio. I wanted to demonstrate how she is always listening to music and is the hardest working painter I have ever met. I liked how her painting smock contained fractions of all of her paintings and each stain tells a story of progression. She always comes to my studio with one head phone off specially that ear as well to the point where the headphone has damage from pulling it off so consi...

Sean Tucker Youtube Sean Tucker is easily one of my favourite YouTube channels to learn about photography. He mixes technique and philosophy effortlessly in his videos about photography. In this video he breaks down Karsh's famous portrait of Ernst Hemingway. 

Here are my selected favourite images I took during the most recent protest that happened at the University of Lethbridge in regards to a controversial speaker being invited to campus. When I arrived to campus that day I couldn't believe I forgot my digital camera, I had never had to shoot an event on film or specifically something that fast paced and with that much tension involved. Another issue was that I didn't have have high iso film and was forced to push my images to 3200 to get useable images. I think this forced push adds to the intensity of the images and demonstrates the panic that I felt as an artist documenting this situation trying a technique that I wasn't entirely comfortable with just yet. The energy at this protest fuelled every frame I chose to take and dictated what I chose to capture. The possibility of completely destroying the film I shot due to poor development and bad exposure was an adrenaline high I hadn't felt from photography before. It was ...

 This is a scene that I see almost every morning and have started capturing photos of it often. Sometimes on my phone quickly at a glance and occasionally on my digital camera and once on film (shot on colour need to take them to a lab still.) I love the qualities of this photo, it builds a frame within a frame and has a subtle accent of colour with he pink grow light in the window. The frame is interrupted by the lamp on the left side of the window. As I was writing this I realized why I like this shot so much. The movie Hereditary by Ari Aster is my favourite movie of all time as I thoroughly enjoy the horror genre and this movie is a masterpiece. The following photo is a still from the movie that my photo reminds me off and subconciously probably was riffing off of. It would be fun to do a series of images with this light on in a room, maybe I will do that for fun sometime.