Nyc Weekend Film Scans

I was so excited to see how my photos from my last weekend in New York City came out. There were some really beautiful situations that I feared I had botched with my film camera. There were a few things going against me, such as constantly being caught by train & subway terminal security, apparently there's no photography allowed in subways and train terminals and damn those guys seemed to pop out of nowhere whenever I lifted my camera! Also, I think I had set my camera to ISO 100 instead of 400 for the first roll, which also accidentally popped open, exposing some of the film to light, but somehow miraculously most of the images turned out. It was the image I took of Mia in an alleyway that I was most excited and nervous about though. We passed this dark corridor that had a bright opening at one end, and a steaming grate in the foreground, it was surreal, a perfect New York City scene. I had to use a really slow shutterspeed and it was hard to focus since it was so dark, I took only two shots, one I cranked the shutter speed to bracket it, but i went the wrong way, under exposing it. I was really banking on the first shot coming out, but it was totally out of focus when I scanned it. I did manage to recover the underexposed version, but it made it very noisy. Im just going to claim i did it on purpose, for artistic affect.
Here's that photo, along with some of my other favorites from the roll:


Im not sure which one of these next two I like better, comment if you have an opinion:




This one makes me smile a whole lot (:


This is Mia's brother Nate, his girlfriend Tiffany, Mia and I

Pin up!

Ive been wanting to do Pin-up style photography for a while now and we had an assignment for an art history reference self portrait. So i found this image by Gil Elvgren:

My Friend Amanda, who I met on the Umass ballroom Dance Team two years ago had discussed doing some pinup modeling a year ago, but it never panned out. It was really great to have an excuse to get back together and make it happen. We had a bunch of fun in the studios along with our friend Amelia. I'll have more pinup photos of the both of them to post later, so be sure to check back! (and yes thats me in the Television)
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Phase 2 wrapup

So we finished phase two at Hallmark Institute of Photography last week, here's the last few assignments we had to complete.

Environmental Portrait
This guy was quite a character, he's a vendor at the Holyoke Flea Market.


Character Study:


Window Lit Portrait:

Food Photography

I made some white chocolate leaves by painting melted chocolate onto rose leaves, letting them cool, then peeling them off. I got the idea from a magazine that I picked up at whole foods while wandering the isles brainstorming what i would do for the assignment. It took two tries to get it, im pleased with the results.

Swillmerchants Promo shoot

The Swillmerchants have always been one of my favorite local bands, and I was all kinds of excited and nervous about photographing them. We had a hard time nailing down some concepts and ideas but in the end we were all happy about the results. They're an exceptional group of guys and im looking forward to doing more with them. Check em out on Myspace or their website

A version of this photo was used for the Promotional material for their upcoming show at Iron Horse Entertainment

Film!

I took a black and white film class at Umass a year ago, and i felt like i never got the hang of it. It definitely has a much longer learning curve than digital. I had a chance to try medium format color film over winter break and i have to say, im quite pleased with the results. I love the hues and depth film has.


My friend Christina modeled for me for my window lit portrait assignment for school. We had a great time and i learned some things and gained some confidence in working with a model.


This is my friend Brendan Dean. Seeing how a daylight uv and lampshade light look on film.


This is me and my Dad, just look at that goofy grin on my face. this is right after he cut my hair when i came home for Christmas. He's a pretty cool guy and an amazing father.