Drive For Show

Wow! Tonight is the opening to Spaces! Spaces is a photography show put on by six graduating photographers from the Art Institutes of International Minnesota which I happen to be one of them. For more info check out my Last Blog post!

Alright last night my roommate Andrew Hendricks and I sat down put together a little video for the show! One of the images I will have on display tonight, called "Drive for Show" I have shown to a couple of professionals, friends and complete strangers. I have received uninspected responses from them, but I guess it is a good one. The most common responses were “how did you do that?” I guess I should have expected that considering how the final image turned out. Well this video was inspired from that and from one of my teachers who suggested that it would be a cool idea because when scanning through the original images it almost looked like a video recording. This Video will be on display tonight along with a 20x24 inch print of the Final image!

Here is a quick rundown. This is a sequence photograph of a series of 12 images taken right after one another, in studio (A.K.A a large room at my work, they allowed me to shoot in) and I had a wonderful and beautiful model named Erin. We shot this about a month back. Well Once I shot the images I took the images in Photoshop selected Erin out of the original images and then layered those selections on top of each other and add some blur to give it a nice effect. This is what we photographers call a composite image. It is where we take several parts of different images and blend them together in Photoshop to make one image. Since it was in studio and wintertime in Minnesota, I got the grass from a photograph I took at a St. Paul Saints baseball game two years ago. We made this video to show how the sequence and layering of this particular photography and the complexity to create the final image, so check it out!

A quick thank you to Andrew Hendricks for his help in putting this video together, check his work out at (www.brand-stand.com). Also Thank you Campus Club my current employer for letting me use their space. And of course a great thanks to Erin for being a huge help! I hope to see everyone tonight at show! A lot of good photographers so come check it out!

Spaces

Hey everyone,

I have been getting a lot of questions about my Facebook profile photo so I thought now would be a good time to explain and invite!

On Thursday, December 16^th my fellow classmates and I are having an open reception for the graduating photography class at my school. The name of our open reception show is called “Spaces”. My profile picture is the actual postcard that we’re using to promote the show.

The other five wonderful people, as well as myself, will have our large prints and portfolios on display! I encourage everyone to come check it out but totally understand if you can’t make it. There will be some food and drinks (non-alcoholic – but we’ll most likely be having some after) and a lot of great photos! Here is one of my photos that will be printed 20x24! Come Check it out!

Show info

Time – Thursday, Decemeber 16 – 6:00pm – 8:30pm

Location- The Art Institutes International Minnesota

15 S 9^th Street

Minneapolis, MN

Happy holidays and I hope to see you there!

-Joe

Snow = Editing Weekend + the end of Golf Season

Well with the snow this past weekend I got a lot of editing done. I sorted through a bunch of photos trying to figure out my Portfolio. I came across some HDR photos that I took while playing twilight golf but I have not had a chance to play around with them in CS5 HDR tone. So I took a break from the Portfolio... Yea that’s right, taking a break from editing to do more editing… exciting life! I think they turned out pretty cool and I wanted to post them. Here are a couple I took while playing my last round of golf for the Season. With this snow it is a guarantee of no more golf. (How I played that day it might be a good thing.) Check out the photos!

Cook Book part 2

All right… here are some photos from the cookbook… but first I want to explain a little bit about it. I have been working at a catering facility called the Campus Club for the last three years. I started as a server/bar tender and am now working in their marketing department. This year our company wanted to produce a cookbook with some of the recipes from our head chef Beth and the Sous Chef Jorge I have been very fortunate because I have been eating their delicious meals for the last 3 years… A big perk of the job! They do an awesome job and asked me to take photos for this cookbook… I was really excited! I researched some info on food photography because I haven’t shot a tremendous amount of food but it was a fun learning experience and I can’t wait to see the finished product. Here are some of the photos I got on the second day of shooting. Not all of them you will have to buy the book to see. It should be out some time in January.

Beth’s husband and her son Leo stopped by

Get this… We had to re-plan our second day of shooting because of a time confliction. I forgot to check if we had an available room to set up a studio that day. Turned out that all 7 possible rooms I could shoot in was unavailable and this was the only one that worked.

The closet where we keep our glasswear. Good thing food is a small subject matter!

All right this was pretty sweet. The sciences department of the U of M dropped off some liquid nitrogen. Beth and George made some ice cream with the help of our bar manger. These might be my favorite shots of the whole day and plus it was pretty good ice cream!

Campus Club Cook Book post 1

Well like I said last week, I am shooting my first cookbook for my current employer, the Campus Club. I wanted to show a couple photos today because we will be shooting the rest of the book today. I picked up the gear at 7:30AM and I will be shooting by 8:30AM until we are done! If you like the food photos check back in a week or so because the ones I shoot today should be posted as well as more info on the book. For now check out the ones we shot last week!

Anyone hungry?

Lyn Lake

So a little over a mouth ago Kevin Shreifels hired me to take photos for his company. He owns Lyn Lake Chiropractic and he had some clients running in the Twin Cities Marathon with Lyn Lake T-shirt on! He wanted photos of his clients to put on his website. I was excited even though I had to get up at 6:30 AM on a Sunday, but I think the best sunlight for photographs is at sunrise so that was a perk. I was on the Franklin Bridge, a location Kevin suggested. He mainly wanted me to get shots of the runners in the race but he wanted them to look like they have been running for awhile so towards the end of the race was good place to be! Before the runners there was the wheel chair race and it was quite amazing! Before that I was waiting around and couldn’t help my inner Photographer and took phots while waiting for the runners. Then the runners started showing up and I was mainly looking for Lyn Lake t-shirts but I was able to capture a couple other runners that I found interesting! Overall, it was a fun experience and if you have any back problems go see Kevin at Lyn Lake, he is a great guy and will defiantly help you out!

http://www.lynlakechiropractic.com/

Brad & Hope

What’s going on everyone! Alright, like I said yesterday I have been extremely busy but a couple weeks ago I photographed Hope and Brad’s engagement photos! We met down by Lake Harriet, about hour or so before sunset, which is one of my favorite times to shoot! It was a great time getting to know Brad and Hope and I am excited to show their photos! I am also hoping they hire me for their Wedding in October 2011. They were a really nice couple and I wish them the best!