RCC Commercial Photography Class of 2013

So, as many did not know, last week was National Biscuit and Gravy Week according to The Cooking Club of America, So Shana Jarrett & I decided to ring in this holiday by celebrating with our entire class. We brought it upon ourselves to organize a huge breakfast for our class, which included home made Gravy from our famous Neeses Sausage, biscuits, cinnamon buns, donuts, fruit, croissants, waffles, orange juice, and a few other items. Our awesome professor, Chuck, then decided to break out some Polaroid film that expired back in 2004 for our class to play with for the day. Each of us took head shots and then some goofy pictures and hung them on our bulletin board to "claim our stake", this is a little sample of what our awesome day consisted of!

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.

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.

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!

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

Mitro Wedding {Another Sneak Peek}

Here comes the bride {Sneak Peek}

On Saturday, I had the opportunity to photograph two of my very dear friends wedding. Will Mitro and Brittney Cope celebrated their 8 year anniversary on Friday, and got married Saturday. This was by far the most beautiful wedding I have ever seen (and I've seen a LOT!)

I'm very fortunate to have had Brittney come into my life, she has been an amazing friend, and at times an awesome mentor.

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:

Easy as ABC

Everyone knows their ABC's, but not necessarily this type of ABC's...
My professor gave us the challenge of photographing text letters, any font, size and color. We had to align them up in Photoshop, and create a collage. Piece of cake? A lot harder than you may think...
I went downtown Asheboro to all of the local shops and restaurants and decided to photograph their signage, which was pretty fun. The next part was pretty difficult though, mainly because I'm not that "computer savvy"...
We had to import all of our photographs into Lightroom, and then individually upload 26 photos into Photoshop, cropping and editing to our liking, then aligning them all on a 8x10" (or 10x8") Canvas. Still seem pretty simple? I think aligning them up was the hardest (& longest) task. But... at least I had fun singing Jackson Fives "123 ABC" with Emma Kepley and Emily Luther. Let's just say that I've been in the computer lab for entirely way too long today!

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!

Apartment Living

This is my first posting for my new blog "Lindsay Allen Photography". I decided to post this photo because it shows a little piece of my life. I recently moved into West Pointe Apartments with two of my classmates from Randolph Community College. We've completely transformed our apartment into a vintage-eclectic living space. This photograph was shot through an antique mirror, which gave it a hazy look.