Painting with Light

Our group went out to Stephens Lake Park and made a photo illustration with the sculptures on the hill at the park. We went for a ghostly and mysterious angle when lighting the scene. We popped a flash with a red gel on it on each of the sculptures and had Lori shine a flashlight on her face at the center of the frame, and then walk over behind two of the pillars and shine the flashlight on her face again. We also had me behind Lori in the center holding candles and had Jon shine a flashlight on my hands to show the hands holding the candles but keep me out of the frame.

The mysterious sculptures located on a hill at Stephens Lake Park are the result of a ceramics art project that has become a staple of the park. Many local residents are often confused by its presence at first glance and theorize that it may be a meeting spot for cults, while others assume its only purpose is to serve as an authentic decoration.

And here's a very general lighting diagram of how we did it

Multiple Flash

For this assignment me and Shengze went to the skate park to shoot. I love doing sports photography so I knew I'd enjoy shooting skateboarding too. For my set up we had one flash a little to the left of the camera sitting on the ground pointing up towards where I thought the skater would jump and the other flash was held by Shengze and she was positioned right in front of where the skater would land. It worked well and we played around with our lighting ratios a bit, but ended up making them equal and got the best results.

Jonathan Jolley, 16, skateboards at the skate park at Cosmo Park on Wednesday evening. A sophomore at Hickman, Jolley says he comes to the skate park "just about every day unless it's over 100 degrees or less than 30."

              
                 

And here's the lighting diagram:

Audio Slide Show Research

Here is the link to an audio slide show that I found to be very moving and powerful. It's from the Miami Herald and its a journalist talking about his experience covering the earthquake in Haiti. The images are all strong and often intense shots that are hard to look at. I thought this was put together very well and was a good multimedia story.


The Miami Herald in Haiti: Carl Juste

Video Interview

I shot and edited a video interview of Dak talking about his favorite photo. I used final cut express to edit

Classmate Video Interview from Ally Appelbaum on Vimeo.