That Willow Smith song: Photographer: Karla

This is a start of a series of photographs that I'll be doing on men with long hair. I like the idea of dressing these guys up in nice clothing and having them head bang. It's fun not really knowing exactly what I was going to come up with. I think the next step is to take them out on actual locations rather than the studio. I think it would be cool to see them in fancy rooms in nice clothing just head banging away. We'll see how it goes though, I found this hotel I really wanted to shoot at and was told it would cost me 5,000 to shoot there and that was their "student rate". Give me a break.

Portrait: Photographer: Karla

Just a simple black and white portrait I took over the summer. I took the summer term off and was really wanting to shoot. So I put the casting up for a model, had her wear this dress and snapped some photos. We wound up walking around the queen mary in long beach. You'd think that I would have chosen a photo with all the boat stuff in the background but I like this one the most. Maybe just because its simple and pretty :)

Fashion: Photographer: Karla

For this shoot I wanted to kind of mimic the lighting style of the no hate campaigns. So I checked a ringflash (which i never shoot with) out from the equipment room and my friend came by to model for me. All in all it was pretty fun but I don't see myself shooting like this all the time.

Coach product shot: Photographer: Karla

This photo comes from a project I started a few terms ago and have yet to finish. I took photos of the head scarf, scanned in a cut out of the silhouette, and composited them together. Honestly, I have no artistic ability in cutting things out so the project was pretty difficult. Next time I think I'll try and get an illustrator to draw them for me :P

Let him eat cake! : Photographer: Karla

This shoot was simple, had a lot of fun doing it actually. The little boy was so cute and was no stranger to being in front of the camera so it made my job so much easier. His mom wasn't too thrilled about the icing on his fingers but she let him do it anyway. The funny part is that he kept wanting to smash his face into the cake...which could have been fun except that the cake was a prop ;) so having styrofoam in his face wouldn't have been a great idea.

Week 13: Photographer: Karla

These are just a few fashion photos I took on campus. I brought the wardrobe and the rest is pretty self explanatory :P I took them during the fashion class and this was probably my favorite shoot from the whole term.

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. :)

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 6: Karla: Photographer

I'm posting these photos with that "food glorious food" song from the play "Oliver" stuck in my head. My personal goal this week was to photograph some donuts. They're fun, colorful and I got to eat them when I was done shooting them so it was a win win situation. I like color and just can not make a moody brooding photograph to save my life so I tend to go for happier colors and things. It's cool because I feel like regardless of what I shoot it just kind of shows how I feel and most of the time I see things in a positive light. So with that said I'll leave you with some donuts to look at. Next time I'll post another drink photograph that I just shot and have yet to edit. In my last post I mentioned I'd shoot with fake ice and it was horrible so I wound up shooting real ice again. But that's next weeks post, or this weeks post depending on how you look at it ;)

Week #5: Karla - Photographer

This is a photograph of some punch that I took a little over two weeks ago. I'm hoping to add it to my growing food photography portfolio. The ingredients are real and I'm specifically talking about the ice. I was told ahead of time that real ice is very difficult to shoot and I am not so sure about that. I bought plenty of ice and kept it in a cooler so when it started to melt I just put more in. Next week I'll be trying a shoot with fake ice so it'll be interesting to compare and contrast the different types of ice. This is my first attempt at shooting glass and liquid since product photo class a few terms ago. Over all I am pretty happy with how it turned out, I'm interested in photographing more drinks to see how I improve with practice.

Week 4: Karla Gotcher, Photographer

I have a guilty pleasure, can you tell what it is? As if you couldn't guess by looking at this photo, I have a little thing for country music. In a way it reminds me of home...where there's nothing else to do except for pile in the truck, turn on the honky tonk and star gaze for a bit. Most of the time I get strange looks from people when I try to describe the beautiful simplicity of it all but whatever :P
Anyway, finding a true country girl out here was too entirely difficult so I wound up casting an actress who swore up and down that she loved country music. Turns out that she fooled me because she was most definitely not interested in the country music blaring from the speakers at the shoot :P However, I think she did a great job of pulling off the look of a country singer which is what I was going for. Thanks to Marisa I bought this amazing floral wallpaper from a place she suggested and the styling as far as clothing, props and jewelry go was all me.

Week 3: Karla, Photographer

I can honestly say that lady gaga had nothing to do with this shoot! I shot this photo a few terms ago here at Art Center. I was walking down Hollywood Boulevard and on a whim decided to go one of the costume stores down there. This is where I picked up that wig and the crown.
My model was a girl I had been talking to and we had discussed how she had been taking acting classes so she was pretty excited just to have fun. We originally got together to do some photos outdoors and wound up taking some photos inside as well. She seemed pretty excited that this shoot gave her the ability to be someone else for a few hours. Honestly I think my inspiration came from photos of Courtney Love but now I can't show the photo without someone saying "oh that's soooo gaga" :(

Karla Week #2

This is the first photograph from my venture into food photography. I'm taking Pornchai's food class this term and our first assignment was to photograph tomatos. I've photographed people from the beginning of my time at Art Center so the prospect of photographing a still object was exciting, new and intimidating. Frankly, The idea that I didn't have to hire a makeup artist, hair stylist, clothing stylist or cast a model nearly sent me into a panic. I can honestly say that I'm pleased with the outcome so far and I'm excited to see where food photography might take me.