Savor Soap©

I saw this beautiful soap at Anthropologie a few weeks ago and immediately knew that I wanted to use it as a self promo piece. I decided to finally use a model *Gasp*, to try and give it a sense of size. I wanted to ensure that the detail in the soap was easy to read, and just as beautiful as the original bar.

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.

Baked Mac & Cheese Self Promo #3

For my Self Promo #3, I decided to bake my mothers famous home made mac & cheese. I photographed it at her house, on her beautiful wooden dinner table. I was very happy with my results, and everyone in my class was licking their lips after they saw the picture! My job was complete!

Time Lapse

We had a time lapse project due for Adam's class, I decided on doubling up on a project and photographing my mac & cheese preparation! Mac & Cheese Timew Lapse!

My Little World

We had an assignment in my digital class where we had to take a 360 panoramic photograph, edit it in Lightroom, then compile it all together into Photoshop, and distort it to create "our little world". I took my photographs right outside of the Photography Department.

Self Promo # 2

For my Self Promo # 2, I decided to photograph a group of bracelets that I have from Forever 21. I photographed this in studio with Alien Bee's Lights. I wanted to give the photograph the feeling that it was a gift,  so I used a BIRCHBOX© gift box and ribbon. 

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.

Visual Resume

We had an assignment to create a Visual Resume, we had to do a self portrait, include three portfolio quality photographs, and write a small bio.

Summer Harvest

Summer is my favorite season, especially because my grandparents always plant the most spectacular garden. Their backyard becomes filled with beautiful plants that produce the freshest vegetables possible. I did a mini-shoot with my beautiful cousin, Meagan O'Connor, for a soundslide project, and this was one of the extra images that I had.

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.

Bokeh!

Our weekly assignment for Jays class was to shoot Bokeh. What better idea than to give it a southern feel by adding mason jars! Emily was my lovely hand model for this project!

Fabric

For Kevins assignment due last week, we were told to photograph fabric using three different lighting set ups. I decided to use my ultra comfy Anthropologie comforter as my fabric!

Framed

My weekly assignment for Jay's class was called "framed", so I instantly thought of the old antique mirror in my living room as being the perfect frame for my idea. My room mate, Emily and her pup, Max, were my two lovely models.

Stranger Banner

One of my assignments for this week was to take 6 photographs of strangers and put them in a banner, and print it on a giant piece of paper (mine ended up being almost 3 feet!). So my room mate Emily & I went to Downtown Greensboro to see what strangers we could find!

Daniel James

Last Night (Sunday) I was given the opportunity to see a very good friend of mine play at the NC Music Factory's Saloon. Daniel James is an up and coming artist who recently moved from Charlotte, NC to Nashville, TN to pursue his dream of music. Daniel and I have been friends since our Sophomore year of High School, and have continued to stay in touch over the years. It was such a treat to hear him play last night, especially in such a close-knit environment. Daniel had invited a small group of friends from High School, it was wonderful to catch up with old friends and see where we all had landed since the lovely days at Porter Ridge.

Alphabet

Our assignment was to photograph objects that look like letters of the alphabet, to put all the photos in a canvas in photoshop, play with the colors and tones to our liking, and print the image. This was my final image

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.