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My girlfriend of 3 years graduated last week. She’s from Japan and English is her second language. She graduated with just under a 3.5 GPA with a business degree in another language, in a foreign country, while missing her family. And she’s embarrassed that I posted this.
IPOY.
I spent almost every daylight hour on Saturday photographing the Denton band Grassfight. They all seemed comfortable with a camera pointed at them and were great to work with.
Everything was shot with two speedlights; one on a tripod and the other dutifully held aloft by Robert, who can no longer feel his arms. We shot in Aubrey and downtown Dallas, and even though we shot all day, my favorites were toward the end of the shoot.
Thanks to Robert and the band for making it a fruitful day.
UPDATE
Also wanted to add that I spent hours a day on David Hobby’s strobist.com before tackling this assignment. It’s really, really good stuff. My photog friends should definitely spend some time there.
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Richard, Phil and I shot this piece for the last project in Multimedia Storytelling.
Idea generation has always been a weakness of mine, and that step proved to be the trickiest for us. At one point I had a list of eight or ten story ideas, and they all ended up tanking.
During the week before our rough edit was done, we decided to work with women involved with a crisis pregnancy center. A few days before the edit was due, the sources bailed on us. Cool. Our fall-back plan was the Seeds of Change-sponsored barefoot march. It ended up being a better story than the pregnancy center one, thought not particularly newsworthy. Eh.
The bulk of the time I devoted to the project was editing and learning flash. The flash template is a bit…simplistic, but I had never used flash before this project. I learned enough to barely pull it off.
It’s nice to have team members to pick up the slack. Being a one man team is rough.
Forming the idea and getting the initial contacts made were still the toughest parts for me, though.
It’s done. Insert sigh of relief (here.)
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I’m doing photos for a Denton band called Grassfight. After doing photojournalism for a couple of years and sticking to telling the truth with photos, it’s been fun to have some flexibility with lighting and post production.
Kayo kindly posed for me when I scouted locations and this is the style I’m experimenting with. I’m thinking I might back off a little on the contrast for the final shots, but it really depends on what the band wants.
Anyone have any thoughts? (Apparently someone reads the blog, I just had my 1,000th view yesterday.) Grassfight wants a refined, almost noir look set in a city. I can’t help but feel that I’m over-editing, but that might just be my journalism roots talking.
