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!