I really love the way my phonebook turned out. Even though the cover is cut off in the final print, I feel the book is a professional and accurate representation of my style in photography.
I chose a white, simple theme for my book. I kept it to as few images per page as I could. Simplicity is my main style, and I really wanted to showcase that in my book. I am looking forward to keeping this book as a keepsake and reflecting back in the future on all the photos I took in class this semester.
For the edits on this photo, I actually used a newborn preset that I have in Lightroom. I used very shallow depth of field in order to make the subject stand out more. I softened her face and eyes just a bit. I feel that the image is much more appealing in black & white rather than color.
The tutorial I was assigned to was Paragraph Styles in InDesign. I particularly enjoyed this process because I’m not an Indesign pro and this tool will make things more simple for my projects in the future. Paragraph Styles allows you to create a custom personal style for paragraphs and apply them to the project making the text uniform an clean.
My photobook will represent my simple, minimalistic style. I like lots of white space in my designs so I urge you not to mark my grade down for doing so. I made these four pages in InDesign, I used various fonts and design elements to make it my own.
The creative portion of the day was one of the most enjoyable – I loved seeing some of the models in their natural habitat and capturing some candids. The creativity limits are endless in Bannack, and each student will interpret things differently. I used auxiliary lighting on the majority of these photos, with the exception of the abstract image. I loved making the levitation shot come to life in post production.
The fine art portion of this trip was fun but a little different for me. I am a portrait lover, and I often times struggle with taking fine art photos. However, I really loved all the room for creativity in Bannack, and I found that the possibilities are endless. I have also included my ghosting image and HDR image in the fine art category in this post.
I loved taking photos of the models in Bannack! My favorite part of the day was definitely going around to all the different stations with various lighting setups and thinking of ways to be creative and stand out in the crowd. The only photo shown here that was taken using natural light was the top photo, the others were taken using Einstein strobes, a reflector, and LED lights.
Taking and editing portraits is my favorite aspect of photography. For this assignment, I used my job as the LuluBella Boutique photographer to capture these portraits, as well as some recent engagement and newborn photos I have taken. Most of these are shot using only natural light, with the exception of the two engagements when I used an Einstein strobe with a beauty dish. For the editing process, I use presets as well as other features available in photoshop and lightroom to enhance my photos.
These photos were fun and interesting to take, as this is not something I am used to photographing. I took these at the lowest aperture the camera would allow for narrow focus. I also used macro tubes to maximize the macro effect of the camera.
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