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Friday, November 6, 2009

Hear from a Suicide Survivor about Opening Up

If anyone is interested in the audio clips I've been talking about that will accompany my portrait project about suicide survivors, I have posted one of the edited clips on my blog. It's just 2:20 and I think she had some really insightful things to say. You can click the title of this post to check it out.

more for senior

so here's a couple horizontal shots...ive been sort of addicted to vertical lately...titles are posted in comments

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Congrats to Alexis-Critical Mass top 50

Congrats to Alexis who has made the top 50 of Critical Mass this year. Alas, no luck for me this time around. Check out the list of finalists here.

Practice for Final

So I am finally figuring out what I want to do exactly for my final project over here in Italy. I have really been wanting to use my flashes (I lugged stands and umbrellas and other crap over here). I am going to do commercial/semi theatrical scenes incorporating the person and their environment (I want Siena to permeate through somehow). Since it is a book I have been playing with the idea to have separate images, but at the same time have two images, or multiple images interact with each other in the sense that one person in one image is looking at another person in another image, across the page, or on the page next to it, or have someone looking around a corner which is the edge of the page - some sort of interaction or interplay between the individual images. At the same time, they could each be stand alone. I'll see.

I was able to practice with a friend of mine Frank, who is from north Jersey. He is living with me and my host family while we are studying abroad. Turns out he was pretty photogenic and I was able to get some good practice using my flashes. I am looking forward to taking more pictures of some other people here in Siena, and will upload those when I get them done. I am going to do some planning ahead so I can setup the shot and plan some of the pages ahead of time. I felt that commercial/fashion/semi-theatrical with speedlights suits because Italy is of course a country of fashion, and so in that sense this project would pertain to Italy.

Here are some examples with the flash. These are just with one flash, but I plan to use two for my final in order to incorporate environment and person. These are solely practice shots. OH and the reason we put sunglasses on Frank is because he blinks EVERY time haha.

(Click for bigger previews)

Which one do you like better (of the two below)? I am trying to figure out a general style I can start creating among the images to come. The first one is pretty close to original image and the second one has undergone some more editing.

Comments and Criticism are welcome

Thanks!! - Tyler

Medical Flyer for MSU Bookstore Apparel

This was a shoot I did to promote the new scrubs we ordered for clothing and various apparel at the MSU Bookstore. Really fun shoot.

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Book Project Fun

Working on some stuff for the book project, any comments?

Just For Fun

I needed a break from school stuff so I worked a little on some personal work from this summer. I think this is helping me keep my sanity :)

Lemmings

260 Montage assignment. Who want's a balloon?

i want your body

hey are there any of you out there who would be willing to be nude or at least partially nude for a photo shoot for my senior? FYI i am much more inclined to have a female as opposed to a guy...let me know when you see me around...body type is not important either!

seniors!

ok guys I'm going to send out an email also but i have only got money from 28 of you!!! which means more space for the rest of us. if some of you forgot or if you have decided not to be apart of the show have some common courtesy and let me and amanda know whats up asap!!! everyone has had plenty of time to get the money to us but if you need a little more time we will be understanding but you need to get in touch with us to let us know otherwise you will not be in the show!! this will be my last warning if i don't hear from the 8 that have not paid you will be booted this week! for the rest of you thanks for paying on time!! chels

Tuesday, November 3, 2009

more creepy dreams

im working on getting some happier stuff too...i just dont know yet...also what do you people think about titles? ill post the titles in the comments section so i dont have to do it 4 times over...

Avian Flu

My bird flu montage. coments??

Nubia is getting married!

These are just a few of Nubia and Colter's engagement photos. This was my first engagement session, between the two of us, I think they turned out pretty good!

Monday, November 2, 2009

Swine Flu

So here is my swine flu montage, the changes to my mad cow disease are under way but let me know what you think about the knew direction (are the words to much??)

Postcard Back #2

Hey Guys, I was messing with the postcard back for mailing/horizontal suggestion purposes. Augie if you want me to stick with the main back you made then that's fine. I tried calling you today but can't get a hold of you. Give me a ring asap k. I have no idea what text you used, so if you could tell me that then I could go ahead and fix it accordingly. I had to cut and paste from the pdf you sent me.

Hey Seniors

so i wanted to let everybody know about hanging. I wanted to make sure that everyone is aware that you will be hanging your own work. me and amanda will have nothing to do with that. meaning you need to figure out what you need to hang your stuff. if you are doing just flush mounting and or window matting you could use t-pins or velcrow-(on the panels) if you have frames you must have wire or something to hang your stuff from above. NOTHING CAN BE NAILED TO THE WALLS OR PANELS. also your work must be mounted some how. there will be NO loose prints tacted up at the show. you will not be allowed to show if you show up the day of the senior show with only loose prints to tack up. also seniors check your emails we need to know who needs 15ft as opposed to 12 for the your project size. thanks chelsea and amanda