This post, was supposed to happen yesterday but KPLC with their frequent power outages would have non of that. This time I decided to try out multiplicity (act of placing the same person a few times in the same photo). I was trying to Illustrate thoughts inside the head of a school girl who had just discovered she is pregnant.
This week I chose to try out high speed photography. Having done something similar a while back i decided to take creativity a notch higher. The major technical differences is the method used to freeze the action. For the Previous shoot, I had used fast shutter speed, for today`s post I used flash to freeze the motion.
Having seen a lot of liquid sculptures, I decided to try something that I hadn’t seen captured before, that is two way motion,a liquid before It dissolves and a slash from another liquid.. For this, I had to do some trial and error until I came up with a working formula. First, I mixed yellow and cyan epson printer ink to give me dark greenish color, then dropped some milk closely followed by black paint with some coins in it (for the splash effect). I tried without the coins but didn’t catch anything spectacular.
Hello good people. Today marks the beginning of Tuesdays xperiment where I will be in the lab during the week to experiment on photography and try out things..you know, burn my fingers a little nini nini in order to learn and grow as a photographer.
Today starts with a mock up of Vaseline advertisement. My model here is just a client whose skin a thought would work here. She isn’t even into modeling I saw her skin and I was like “I could use this”.
This is how the image looks when zoomed in
Our Model today hails all the way from Nanyuki. Unlike most of my clients, She wasn’t referred, she just searched for photographers on the Internet where she came across me.
She has never modeled before, This was actually her first photoshoot. which was fun .. Aside from learning a few posing tricks from me, she learned how to make instant Home made Café Mocha(Without the froth of cause). she is Currently studying in the University.
I normally post every Tuesday so this blog post was supposed to happen yesterday but my Internet connection went down. Some time back I was hired to shoot corporate portraits for a law firm for their new website. I Hadn’t done this type of photography before but I was confident I would pull it off .
To some, It may seem pretty easy, but I assure you it all depends on your skills. Sometimes technical know how isn’t enough to get you through. In some situation you need patience, a sense of humour, humility, courage etc. For this shoot technical knowhow and a sense of humour was enough.
I`ve realized that I`m mostly treated like a dentist, when I grab my camera even the seemingly strong starts to quiver, what usually follow is, ..what do you want me to do? How do I pose? don`t photograph me when I am Smiling It always come out awful, don’t make me look fat,thin etc .
My subjects during this shoot were confident, but we all are concerned on how the photos depicts us either strong, happy, vibrant, warm hearted, easygoing etc. For this shoot the Lawyers had to look confident and at the same time approachable getting exactly that sometime requires a lot of directing and this shoot was no exemption.
Telling people to smile isn’t going to cut it. Mostly what you get is a grin. telling people to shout cheese and such sounds lame to me so you`ll never catch me doing that, to get the facial expressions I was looking for I had to humour them.
HERE is how they used the images on their site. hover mouse over RH Team and visit each profile.
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