Cupcake Wine©

What goes together better than cupcakes & wine? I can't think of anything! I wanted to do a wine ad for my Self Promo # 5, but wanted to steer away from the typical cheese and crackers, boring bottle wine ad. I found this delicious bottle of Cupcake Chardonnay and thought : PERFECT! I got the prettiest cupcake that I could find, some beautiful grapes, and BAM! Made this awesome triptych.

Client #4: a dozen eggs

For my Client #4 Assignement, my Professor Chuck told us to photograph a dozen eggs. We could style the eggs however we liked, the only restraits were that the final image had to be a 12x12 crop, and must include all 12 eggs. I immediatly thought of breakfast and ran with it. I remembered seeing these adorable egg crates from Anthropologie©, so I ran up to Greensboro and purchased some. I figured that brown eggs would look more appropriate than plain white eggs and give it a more 'country' feel. I included the Better Homes and Gardens© Cookbook to give it a definate kitchen setting. I wanted to include a cracked egg with the egg yolk and a wisk to make it seem like baking or breakfast is about to happen. All together, I'm very happy with my image.

Silk PureAlmond© Milk

So Monday, our professor James gave us an assignment to go out and find a beverage tear sheet (an ad in a magazine, of a beverage) and reproduce it. I was paired up with my absolute favorite person in my class, Alicia Irivn , and we created this awesome Ad for Silk PureAlmond© Milk.

Self Promo #1

I was given an assignment to produce a number of "Self Promos" over the next six weeks. The Self Promos can be anything of my choice, I just have to get it approved by my professor. For my first self promo, I chose to photograph O-L!VE Oil. I produced this image in studio using Alien Bee flashes and fill cards.

HDR image

High dynamic range imaging (HDRI or HDR) is a set of methods used in imaging and photography, to allow a greater dynamic range between the lightest and darkest areas of an image than current standard digital imaging methods or photographic methods

For my color class, we were assigned to create an HDR image. I picked a photo of my parents beautiful 1969 Firebird

Photographers Choice: Randelman Lake

I am fortunate enough to have a dear friend that owns a personal plane, and was able to take me around Asheboro to work on some aerial photography. This is a view of Randelman Lake.

Painting with Light

This week in small format, we had an assignment to "Paint with Light". I shot my moms 1969 Pontiac Firebird outside of a local restaurant in Charlotte called Jake's Good Eats.

Cans

So I get to my favorite teachers class at 8 am this morning (entirely too early if you ask me) & he immediately gives us an assignment and rushes us out the door. Nothing like being woken up by an ex-autioneer style voice telling us to go out and photograph a soda can. No guidelines, nothing. We were able to use anything we wanted as a prop, etc.
Best Part: The photo's metadata had to read that it was taken no later than 9:25 am.
AWESOME!!

So I'm paired up with Sarah Johnson and Lewis Perkins, and these are a few of the images we came up with:

Self Portrait

So, who doesn't like being in front of the camera? Since I'm always the one behind the camera {besides when I'm being the model for a cheesy 80's style portrait}, I was given the assignment to create a self portrait. YIPPIE! So my current 'profile pic' for my blog is the outcome of my lovely photoshoot... BUT my bestie/roomie & I decided to do something a little more fun. We have an inspiration board in our super adorable living room and decided to use that as our background. Its filled with all sorts of quirky magazine cutouts, inspirational quotes, and southern summer love. We decided to break out a few of our new I <3 Photography stickers and play a little bit!