What I did today and plans for this blog.

I’ve been doing a lot of elaborate shoots lately in the pursuit of creating a “fashion” portfolio.  My fashion shooting has been leaning towards an editorial style that is shoots that present an idea or mood often using story telling elements to create a concept about the products.  In many ways editorial shoots are as [...]

Fashion shoot with Brianna at Pertel Springs

I thought I would post some shots from a fashion shoot I did with Brianna last Friday at Pertel Springs in Warrensburg, Mo.  This was a good shoot despite the fact that we were getting rained on off and on the whole time.  Sheridian Beardshear also assisted me on this shoot.

Post Apocalyptic Amazon project progress log

Gas Mask and Helmet I’ve been working on this post apocalyptic amazon project most of the spring semester so far.  It’s a major project I’m doing mainly for my portfolio class.  I’ve done about five shoots so far and I have at least that many shoots left to do.  It’s been quite a challenge because [...]

Post Apocalyptic “Amazon” tracker concept and execution

Well today I started a new project for 2011.  I’m working on a post apocalyptic amazon tribal photo story kind of thing.  This is probably going to be one of my bigger projects for the year if not the biggest one.  I plan to end the project with a photo story.  I’m not sure if [...]

Location and Wedding Assignment #3 Alien Bees

This is my Alien Bees assignment for Location and Wedding class at UCM.  This assignment was shot with my own Alien Bee B800s at Cave Hollow Park in Warrensburg Missouri.  Mckinsey was my model and Sheridan was my stylist and assistant.  We did this shoot as a “tribal” themed fashion shoot.  You can see more [...]

Creative Photography Assignment #6 “Spy Girl”

This is my sixth and final shooting assignment for Creative Photography Spring 2010 at UCM.  I started consulting with this model about this shoot at the start of the semester but due to schedule conflicts we were not able to set up the shoot until the end.  The colorful spy movie genre of the 60s [...]

Creative Photography Assignment #5 “Bella Bully”

This is my fith assignment for Creative Photography class.  The title of the project is “Bella Bully”.  This is a kind of continuation on the theme I’ve been doing for my last few assignments.  I’m thinking it’s turning into a series.    I also put a set from this shoot on my Flickr Photostream.

Creative Photography Assignment #4 “Street Shaman”

This is my fourth assignment for Creative Photography.  The concept is “Street Shaman”.  This shoot was done as a character concept photo illustration project.  It’s also somewhat inspired by the super hero comic book genre.  Like a super hero the street shaman hides her identity with a mask which in her case is painted on [...]

Creative Assignment #3 “Gunpunk”

This is my assignment #3 for creative photography.  The concept is “Gunpunk”  a kind of action hero satire also kind of a satire of the trash art “girls with guns” genre.  I added textures to these images as well. 

Creative Photography Assignment 1: Self Portrait

The first assignment for the Creative Photography class I am in this semester at UCM was “Self Portrait”.  Being a “creative” class obviously a standard self-portrait wouldn’t do.  Rather than doing a set of portraits about me and what I do I decided to do a series about who I might have become if I had made [...]