Week 12: Karla : Photographer

It's been a while! I hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and I just wanted to say I'm totally loving the type that Ophelia did on my ice cream photograph. :)
So...these two photos were part of a series I did a few terms ago. I found some really beautiful headbands at Nordstroms and wanted to do a shoot that incorporated them. I really like how dark skin photographs and I liked how the color seemed to pop. Since this shoot I've switched my focus to food photography but I think my love for color never changes. :)

Tango. UK Volkswagon.

Week #12: PACA

Doug Dawirs of PACA will be visiting our class on Wednesday Dec. 1st and will go over the following:

PACASEARCH (Picture Archive Council of America Search) is the worlds largest index of licensable photography. Launched earlier this year, PACASEARCH is getting raves from professional art buyers and photo researchers. It's also a great research tool for photographers, designers and stock agencies. (Latest news: Alamy and Veer came on board last week which pushed the total number of images in the PACASEARCH index to over 100 million.) Knowing about this incredibly fast and simple search engine makes the most difficult image quest almost fun.

Related articles:

Infostock

Paca Launches New Search engine for image buyers

The PLUS (Picture License Universal Standard) Registry is about to be publicly launched and I'll be showing the beta version now under test. The PLUS Coalition is an international non-profit initiative on a mission to simplify and facilitate the communication and management of image rights. PLUS holds the key to how artists monetize their creative works. The PLUS Artist Registry is just one link in the chain but plays a critical role when tracking down an artist.  The PLUS Image Registry (which is still under development) is a global registry for commercial images. For more information visit www.useplus.org.

Drowning Beautiful

"Sometimes an artist creates something so beautifully simple that it takes your breath away…. literally. (hack line – couldn’t help it) Artist Jason de Caires Taylor creates life-size cement sculptures of people and submerges them into the waters of South America. As time passes the sculptures become part of the underwater landscape and slowly become artificial reefs ripe with marine life."


Jason De Caires Taylor

WEEK 10 Damon Casarez

This is the next photo in my series of staged photographs. This image was inspired by my own family dinners haha. I thought it was a sort of humorous photograph about the modern American family. I wanted to make this photograph for a while now and finally got a family to shoot. It was a pretty simple shot. I didn't do much variation because I knew this was the shot I wanted to get. The lighting was pretty simple, only using 1 4-bank kino flo to light them. The best part was eating all of the pizza after!

Dirt Cheap Magazine

Dirt Cheap Magazine

Contribute your work to this UK trend magazine run by Pete & Ollie.

Magazines Designer's Guide to Magazines

Shared on Facebook. A very cutting and very true breakdown of magazine designers and magazines.

Playing with type on REIII's images

Playing with typography on one of Robert Evan's Images.

PhotoCrew

A great site from Izabela Berengut of Sugar Reps


Photocrew: The online community for the photo industry
Find, connect and network with people in the photo industry, such as photographers, hair stylists, make up artists, wardrobe stylists, prop stylists, producers, photo assistants, photography assistants, photography interns, digital technicians, photo retouchers, production assistants. Register for FREE if you are in the industry and want others to find you

Week #10 : Photography Reps

Week #10: Getting a Photo Rep

Karla + Sorbet + Typography

Added a fun Circus font to Karla's image. Just playing around with the negative space...and loving Karla's work!

Week 10: Karla: Photographer

So many photos to edit! I've done about six different shoots in the last week and am preparing myself to sit and spend quite a bit of time editing them all in the next few days. This is just one photo from one of the shoots so it's pretty much just a sneak peek.
I think it's funny that I came to Art Center just so sure that I would be a fashion photographer and although I love to photograph people I must say that I have enjoyed photographing food these last 3 months. I'm 7 months pregnant now and shooting food has been a relaxing, creative and yummy experience thus far!

Week 8 Damon Casarez

Publish Post

Yev

Lucy

These are 3 shots I have done in the last couple weeks for fashion that I'm pretty happy with. The first 2 photos were taken last Friday and the 3nd image was taken 2 weeks before. In the last few weeks I've tried to do studio lighting set ups with gray backdrops and everything just to try something completely different and I always end up just shooting around the studio at the last minute when I become bored with the standard studio lighting set up. I've been very inspired by just watching the models waiting for people to shoot them and observing them in their down time when they are bored and on their phones or talking with the other models or when they just go off by themselves and watch the other shoots going on. I'd like to keep shooting these types of portraits of the models while they are waiting, bored, tired and sometimes just don't want to be there. Paul wanted me to get in closer with the portraits and I tried doing this with Yev, but these pulled back, more environmental shots turned out better I think. I am still going to get in closer with my portraits and hopefully I will get a successful image this next week.

Bill Cahill/ liquid and solids

Bill Cahill will be speaking to our class Dec. 1st. Check out his website.
Bill is an award winning photographer and speaker. His work is focused on both editorial and commercial work in experimental splash and liquid photography.

Bill-cahill.com

Hennesy Reps: Scratch and Sniff Direct Mail Video

Scratch n Sniff from melissa hennessy on Vimeo.

If you cut it...it becomes this

Brian Dettmer's brilliant cut away books.

Week #9: The Workbook

The Workbook: A presentation by Suzanne Semnacher


Workbook

Week #9 - Ad Buyers

Ad Buyers

Week#8 Robert S Evans III

Towards the beginning of the this term I was talking with Paul Jasmin during the Fashion Photo class he teaches here at Art Center. He pointed out one of the models named Camille that his class had the opportunity to shoot that day and I should go introduce myself and take some pictures. So we walked over to her and discussed with her and the stylist and make up artist make up and what she would wear. next thing I new she went off to make up and I was running over to the prop room to try and put some sort of set together and i also dug into my what bag of tricks that I happened to have with me at the time. The result from this impromptu shoot wasn't that bad and I had a lot of fun working with Camille.

Week #7 Robert S Evans III

I shoot this for a Valentine's Day brief in my food photography class two terms ago. It was a lot of fun for me because I got to finally bring food and people together. The idea was a Night for one. Basically this lady gets stood up by her lover on Valentine's Day after she had planned this night of passion for her and her lover.After a few glass of champagne she decides to not waste the night crying over it, she would partake in the night she had planned out with herself. She ends up discovering a private her-eyes-only sexual fetish with food.

Week #6 Robert S Evans III

I shoot this still life last spring during my first go around in a food photography class at Art Center. The brief was green and we had to use seven different objects with four of them being food. Earlier that week I was randomly given a set of 1:32 ratio of German WWII soldiers. Which I had the strange urge to use for this brief one because they were green and another I thought it would be cool to have then fighting these weird green candy frogs. Then I was off to Whole Foods to partake in one of my newly discovered parts of producing a shoot propping which now for me is at much fun as the actual shoot . I was like a kid in a candy store. I found so much green food it was hard to focus. However I decided that I would build a world out of veggies and have the soldiers epic battle against the alien green frog candies. The shoot was a lot of fun and brought back some childhood memories of dressing in my fathers old military clothes and setting up battles with my friends.

Director's Reel!

This was a DVD cover I did for a friend's directing reel. the stripes down the center are the spine, with the blonds being the front cover and the brunettes the rear.

All four characters were women pulled from each of his four short films featured on the DVD (the large blond is actually a man in drag but...)

He really wanted a sort of pop art/lichtenstein feel with that sort of retro comic look and lot of garish color.

WEEK 8 Damon Casarez

These are 2 photos I shot this weekend for my series of staged photographs. I have been wanting to do both of these scenes for a while now and I ended shooting the 1st one Saturday afternoon in downtown L.A. on the 6th street bridge and the 2nd at a market parking lot in Pasadena. Both images are a sort of social commentary on our uses of technology. I feel that both of these images are of situations that most people have seen or can imagine seeing happening in real life. I wanted to create documentary photographs of these situations in a sort of neutral manner to leave the narrative up to the viewer.

Mike Ruiz: photographer Nov. 11 @ 1pm

Room 208 /Hillside Campus

Mike Ruiz will be speaking at ACCD on Thursday Nov. 11th at 1 PM - 2PM at the Hillside Campus (Room 208). Come join us to find out how his successful career went from illustration to photography.

About: Mike Ruiz http://www.mikeruiz.com/
From Brooke to Tyra Banks, J Lo to Jenna Jameson, Dolly to Dita Von Teese — few do cool so hot, even fewer capture the glamorous inner sinner imagination of today's extravagant enigmas than New York based high-octane celebrity and fashion photographer Mike Ruiz and star of the show A-List.

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Word of Mouth vs. Viral

Word of Mouth vs Viral

Femobtropolis

Also from Color Theory was this sexy fembot I named Allura. I drew inspiration for her design mostly from the original Transformers TV series (especially the character Arcee) a little Beast Wars (See Blackarachnia) some Fritz Lang's Metropolis, a dash of The Rocketeer and a little Alexander McQueen for the heels.

I've always LOVED robots, female ones especially. I find the idea of constructing a woman so intriguing, plus they tend to be the best characters in science fiction.

Scooby Doo 2010

This was a quick piece I did for Color Theory a couple terms back that got a lot of fun responses. Some friends and I were joking about old cartoons and what they might have been like had they been created today.

One of the cartoons that came up was Scooby Doo. I came up with the idea that a modern version, targeted at young adults, would have to center around Daphne, a hot Korean pop star, Velma, a lesbian, a robot Scooby Doo (that also manufactures "Scooby Snacks," a recreational drug), Shaggy, a hipster and pot head and Fred, the openly gay party boy best friend of Daphne.

They basically tour the world solving mysteries that may (or may not) be the negative results of their drug-laden partying ways. Was it a ghost... or just a bad trip? Who knows!

Week 7 Damon Casarez

This is the newest photo in my series of staged photographs. I saw a couple in Altadena about 3 weeks ago sitting on a bus stop bench together similar to this photo and I knew right away that I was going to re-stage it. I'm interested in the visual oddity of the situation and where the traditional roles in the relationship are switched. I'm not trying to poke fun at this situation, but simply re-create the nice tender moment I saw between the two.

This shoot was a lot of fun. I had 5 people on the shoot; 2 actors on the bench and 3 background people. I also had a friend majoring in theater costume design help me pick clothing for the shoot.

When Bad Photography Happens, It Really Happens

What's wrong with this photo? This image was on a major website, in an ad for a jewelry company.

Week #8: Mouthing Off: The Best & Worst of Word of Mouth Marketing

Word of mouth is a reference to the passing of information from person to person. Originally the term referred specifically to oral communication[1] (literally words from the mouth), but now includes any type of human communication, such as face-to-face, telephone, email, and text messaging.

According to Malcolm Gladwell “we are about to enter the age of  WORD OF MOUTH, and … paradoxically all of the sophistication and wizardry and limitless access to information of the New Economy is going to lead us to rely more and more on very primitive kinds of social contacts.”