For the first assignment in UCM’s editorial class I chose to do food photography, referencing a Cooking Light magazine for lighting on the Famous Amos cookies (a picture of peanut brittle with lighting on front as well as behind), and using my two alien bee lights. I used a movie light (lowel) for the Pillsbury cookies… which tasted very good, by the way.
Flickr Slideshow: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sbibb/sets/72157623372812384/show/
Filed under Editorial 2010
Our first assignment in Creative Photography was self-portrait work. I decided I would make digital manipulation my key focus. So I set up studio in the currently empty other half of my dorm room using two Alien B400 lights and a grid spot, along with a piece of red fabric safety-pinned to the curtains, and took various pictures. Most of them were shot with a continuous shot ten-second timer. Several of the base photos turned out blurry, but after a couple shots they finally came out right. I also took several photos of my laptop. Then, in order to get the “fish-in-the-net” photos, I asked my boyfriend for help holding me- and giving me a chance to take up random poses. Granted, the expressions on my face wasn’t entirely an act, since being held precariously over a desk isn’t exactly my favorite thing to do. In the end some of those poses helped for the “falling-into-the-laptop” pictures, as well as the one where I am coming out of the laptop’s portable hardrive. It was a fun shoot, and I think the results turned out interesting.
Filed under Creative 2010
For Christmas I got a nice Alien Bee light set, two B400 lights, a set of four grids, two umbrellas, a hotshoe, and two lightstands. Today I’ve added the Flickr feed to the blog, so you’ll be able to see my most recent photos. I’ll add more photos later, including ones I took for a family during January.
EDIT: These are some of the family photos I took over Christmas Break.
Filed under Client Work, Personal Work
Stephanie Flint - Author and Artist 
