Self Portrait: Pancake Breakfast

 I always envisioned doing a photo series of a zombie family, so I was very excited to be able to start on my first one. To create this image I first sketched out my concept [below]. I then started to organize props for the scene, and make our costumes. This image is a composite of 5 images; Self portrait, my son, my boyfriend, and two of the background. I lit the image using paper lanterns (china balls) for the table scene, one hot light snooted with aluminum foil on the background, and coming through the side window. All together this composite took a little over eight hours to shoot; from set styling to final shot.

 

Self Proposal Assignment 4: Tear Sheet / Ceramic Dishware

 

This photograph was taken for an assignment this semester in my Photographic Illustration class. For this assignment we had to select a tear sheet of a commercially taken image that we wished to reproduce; lighting patterns, style, and overall feel. I chose my tear sheet from a home ware section of a department store’s catalog, and purchased as similar of items as I could find both for my ceramics and my propping. I used multiple hot lights to create my lighting direction and patterns, and multiple bounce cards to add or subtract light. The image at the bottom is the tear sheet that I used as inspiration for my image.