60’s Style Day!

Preview from my photo shoot from earlier today

Promoting Yourself

Promoting Yourself

I recently found this video about how to create the best mailing list for you and some ways that you can promote yourself. I definitely found this to be very helpful for myself since I will be graduating from college within the year. This video should definitely be looked at by artists who are having a little trouble getting their name out there.

Fashion Week In China

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203897404578079350538955768.html#slide/3

If you want to see some great runway fashion photos check out China’s fashion week. Here is an image that really stands out to me.

SAVE OUR EDUCATION!!!

SAVE OUR EDUCATION!!!

Everyone please take a moment to read and sign this petition! This petition is to help save the education that students are receiving at the schools that are being affected by the EDMC scandal. More and more teachers, advisors, and others are being laid off because these schools claim there is a shortage of funds and yet they keep raising the tuition each year. So please sign and share this petition!

Also, if you haven’t heard much about this here is a link to an article about the EDMC scandal:

http://www.republicreport.org/2012/edmc-lobbyists-goldman-sachs-ruined-for-profit-education/

IT’S FINALLY HERE!!!

http://mcminn2013.aisites.com/

I finally got to finish my website and get it up and running! Come check it out and tell me what you think!!!

Makes you think…

So this article that i just read helped put things into perspective for my work when I graduate. If you are preparing to graduate I suggest you read this article because it’s helping me figure out what I might do after graduation.

http://fstoppers.com/are-college-graduates-unprepared-as-photographers

Website In Progress

Hopefully by next week I will have a website up and running!

Day For Night

Here’s a neat way to create a day for night image in Photoshop. I’ll have to try it out and show the results.

Digital Composition DIY

Difficulty: Easy

I’ve been taking a ton of photographs lately, but I’ve had some trouble capturing my subjects at night. Something I’ve wanted to look into is day for night photography. There is an easy way to do this on-site with different aperture settings and screens, but maybe you forgot your equipment that day, or maybe you can’t do that with your camera, or maybe you just think your subject is more interesting at night, and all you have is daytime pictures.

Here is a photo I took in the middle of the day. For your image, there will be a few things you will need to be wary of right off the bat. Try to avoid highlights, as this is very difficult to mask over. The sky is difficult to mask, but not impossible, though the original photo should be white balanced and exposed correctly. Overexposure is especially hard…

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Say Sling Shot!

Say Sling Shot!

I thought this was a really interesting new camera. This camera literally looks like a sling shot!

I’m not sure of the resolution for the images produced, but I think it would be fun to play with

Retouching

Retouching

So I just read an article today from yahoo about the amount of retouching Lady Gaga may or may not have under gone for the cover of vogue. In the article it does state and I quote, “An article at Buzzfeed asks, when airbrushing is this extreme, why hire photographers at all? They point out that Vogue might as well have used a fashion illustration.”

A lot people are believing it was too much and she’s barely recognizable. I believe it to be the other way for certain reasons. Number one the photograph being compared to the cover is even the same one. Secondly, as I look at the cover more and more it does start to look like an illustration, rather than a straight forward photograph.Lastly, taking a look at the behind the scenes for the photo shoot, to me at least she still looks a lot like herself. Yes, there have been changes to photograph, but it isn’t to the point where she may as well be a cartoon.

Well, I have stated my opinion on this subject; I want to hear what you think so comment below.