Portrait of Choice

Major Claude Eatherly, pilot at Hiroshima, 1963
Photo credit: Richard Avedon | view here.

As typical as it is to choose an Avedon when told to pick a portrait, I did it anyways. Avedon was the master of capturing the real moment. And trying to capture a real moment with actors, politicians, and musicians isn't exactly that easy. This portrait stands out most to me, however, because the only reason this man was photographed was because he was involved in dropping an atomic bomb on 140,000 humans. And his expression captures the anguish I can only imagine he had to live with.

Copy Test and White Balance Exploration

To Rita and Jarrad, here are my shots. To everyone else, these shots are from a copy test and white balance exploration assignment. The photo of Quinten Tarantino and the frogs are pictures of pictures (before scanners, you took a picture of a picture). The other two are explorations in white balance, one is shot on daylight and the other on tungsten. To me, these photos suck, but the semester has just begun.


Tungsten WB

Daylight WB

Stump the chump
Photo credit: Oophaga Pumilio

Mood lighting
Photo credit: Mark Seliger

On-Set Once Again

My friend, Jeff Venable, asked me to shoot the production of an 8 minute short film that he had to create and complete in 48 hours. He's participating in the annual Nashville 48 Hour Film Project. 8 minutes doesn't sound like a whole lot, but shooting 8 minutes of a film can take (as proven today) an entire day, if not longer. Friday night was the brainstorming and script writing process; today was shooting and now Jeff is currently editing all the scenes. He'll turn it in tomorrow evening.

These are just a few of the shots that I got over the past 24 hours. I would attempt to explain the plot; but even I don't really know it since when I left it still involved an astronaut, aliens and a bat that bit people and they turned into cameras.

(None of those were actually in the legitimate ideas bucket... They were all my ideas...)

iPhone Biznass

iPhones can be creative too!