"Get Flashed"

This was a shoot I've been wanting to do for awhile. Photo gangstas. Took a few of the photojournalist students and made them look really badass with their Nikons. The lighting was kind of a mock up of some Tim Tadder/Jill Greenberg style. Six mono heads and a ring flash to fill in some of the facial shadows. Joey Lawrence's Photo Club was definitely playing in the background (along with Jay-z, Ke$ha and other ridiculous things of that nature).

"Click, click, flash, flash, I will take your photograph. Money, money, cash, cash, now I own your soul!"

Peanut butter and jelly are not good painting mediums.

First time in the studio to take this still life series. This is the best image of the bunch, but you can see the concept. Went through a lot of bread and jelly and peanut butter to do this. The lighting is a bit flat but whatever. I'm not a big still life shooter. "Made with love by grandma."

Portrait outtake.

A fabulous mistake outtake from the portrait of a classmate assignment.

Dalí is love.

Not my usual style at all. Definitely more of a painterly feel. But, hey. The results were pretty legit. There's a spot color version of this photo as well, but I don't like it as much. One monolight, no reflector. In a dorm room, for one thing. I was tripping over all kinds of things. And every time I wanted a new position, we had to redo the make up on her lips. The model even had an allergic reaction to some of the makeup.

Anything for art!

Oh, "Ruby Lip Brooch" by my favorite Spanish jew was the inspiration if you couldn't tell. I love me my surrealists.

Portraits, portraits, portraits!

Had to take a portrait of a classmate. And so my picture had to be taken as well. It's a little weird being on that side of the camera, but whatever. I'm too lazy to post the rest right now.

Goin' a little Irving Penn on you...

The assignment this time was "found object" and/or available light. So, I decided to take inspiration from Irving Penn and photograph cigarette butts. They're not lit with strobes or anything, just the sun. And I had to have my lovely assistant find them for me. But, it's whatever. These two images were the results, the top being a little stronger and minimalist compared to the second.

Look at that fu-- not a hipster.