Situation I: "Feeling Like a Clown"
Alma resident Matthew Stephens recently graduated from college in May,
does not have a job and "feels like a clown." With the country's fallen economy,
many graduates, like Stephens, have fallen victim to the struggling job market.
35 mm lens, ISO 200, f/8.0, 20 seconds
Executing this concept was difficult considering I have a slight fear of clowns. After Matthew applied his face paint, put on his nose and walked to my truck in front of thirty starting people, we headed to the intramural fields. The whole concept started with Matthew "feeling like a clown" because he was graduated without a job. This is why he painted his face as a "hobo" clown.
I used a cable release and set it to 20 seconds. I flashed Matthew from camera right with his hand outstretched. (The strobe was set at 1/2 power, I believe.) I dropped the flash and ran to draw the balloon string with a small LCD. I then colored in the red balloon using a flashlight with a red folder (folded multiple times) taped over it.
Situation II: "Ghost Music"
A grand piano located in Farmington, Mich. has sat untouched in the Miller household for 28 years.
The owner, Patricia Miller, dreamed about learning to play and longed to fill the house with music;
however, she never took lessons after she had two children.
22 mm lens, ISO 200, f/9.0, 30 seconds
I originally wanted to highlight my viola, but I decided to take advantage of the piano in our living room when I went home this weekend. After experimenting with different ways to paint the piano, I decided on the above. I again used a cable release and set it for 30 seconds. After I started the exposure, I strobed the piano from camera right. I then used five glow sticks that were taped together to paint a messy staff.
Throughout the time I was making images, I changed and experimented with my exposure. I decided I wanted the piano to be darker and for the painted notes to highlight the keys to try to show that my mom's thoughts of music were the only thing actually touching it.
Congrats, Ashley, you did the first one, sometimes I think a clown is scary too...lolx~
ReplyDeleteThe music note symbols in your second photo are sweet. Nice use of the rainbow colors behind, if there are only the notes on the photo, it must be a little boring, but the rainbow helps!
by the way, i think your drawing is great.
Ashley, the piano one is amazing! Love the idea of using different colors for the staff. It is a little bit messy, as you said, but I knew right when I looked at it what it was supposed to be. Very cool.
ReplyDeleteVery creative. Great ideas. Good compositions. Nice color with the piano and a white wall without hard shadow. Very well performed.
ReplyDeletethe piano shot turned out really nice, good job. the clown in funny too, he looks a little too bright though.
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