Photography Studio 1

    Kort Woycheshin,  Women hides Man Under Her Bed, 2023 Here are some behind the scenes in the creation of my final making a scene project. For the final photograph I used four lights plus natural window light to create the scene I wanted. I had a small led light to the left of Matilde (subject in the bed) set to 2900k to try and match the gas light on the right side of her bed. I then used a Godox Sl60 set to 5100k to exaggerate the window light on the right side of Leah in my photo. For the subject under myself I have a very tiny aperture light set to 5100 K to add a sense of mystery and confusion of what the subject under the bed may be doing. Are they dead? Are they hiding? You decide.  I used a fog machine to get a sense of depth and density in the air that I so enjoy of Crewdson's work, I think I could use a 10% diffusion filter on the lens to get a similar look if I didn't have access to the fog. To take the shot I had a live feed streaming to my phone under...

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.