As a protest to the SOPA and PIPA bills that are floating through Congress in the US right now, I will be going dark on here for Wednesday, 18 January 2012. I hope there will be a wave of awareness that the internet needs to remain free of government intervention and control. They need to clean their own acts before they have the audacity to tell the rest of us how to regulate our lives. Please join me and count ell others in going dark on the 18th. Thank you...
Read more...The new year started lamely. I would have thought better of it, since we went to see a friend of ours perform burlesque and then a couple others at a house party perform with their band. It was a lot of activity and a lot of fun swirling around, but I didn't catch any of it. Lame. I wanted to have the same emotional response to the new year of 2012 as everyone else seemed to be having - the last year in the Mayan calendar - the year where the earth crosses the galactic equator - the year of the Dragon in Chinese reckoning... All the signs, portents and cosmos are directing this coming year...
Read more...With a fond adieu we start to bid farewell to 2011. It held such promise, such hope, such potential. Did it live up to those things? That's for each individual to challenge themselves to reflect upon and judge. For me, 2011 was a year of opening opportunities and changes in direction. I think this past year has altered my course for the future and has put me in line with some closed doors that I can definitely open. Doors that I didn't even knew existed before the lights came on. To what extent those doors will lead into greater things? That's for 2012 to develop, and for me to discover. I...
Read more...This Fall Quarter is coming to a close and I must say that I've had some really good experiences within it. I loved my Advanced Fashion class most especially, and I feel that I have found what I would love to do for the next portion of my life. One of the last photo shoots I did for that class was one in an editorial type style that revolved around ties... My model, Corey Wise, is not only an exceptionally handsome fellow on the outside, he's extremely handsome on the inside as well. His charismatic demeanor, positive attitude, accommodating nature and his uncanny ability to be where he says...
Read more...It seems as though I've been 'bitten' by the fashion bug. I'm falling in love with the genre of photography in a bad way. I don't really want to - just because it's so complex and undulating like a writhing monster waiting to devour those who aren't prepared to worship it in its entirety - but I'm becoming more and more compelled to do so.Recently I did a shoot for my Advanced Fashion class for a men's underwear 'campaign' that gave the model I worked with some images for his portfolio (hopefully), and for me as well. I wanted to do a bit of location/editorial images that encompassed...
Read more...I recently posted a few images on a social networking site that were fashion-types in nature. One one of the images, I was told, was "awkward," and the model's hands were in an inappropriate position.I stood by the image and defended the reasoning for its existence, citing examples of other, similar images that were in print and had made the model, photographer and company lots of money.That made no difference to those who cited the inappropriateness of the image in question.Here are the images I posted...All photos ©Carlos Paradinha PhotographyThe image that was cast as "awkward" is the fourth...
Read more...It's been a while since I created a post on here - and for that, I apologize.This quarter at school has been a lot better, academically, than last quarter. By miles. I've been liking my Fashion class, Portraiture class, Alternative Processes Class and even my Digital Photographic Art Direction (in which I work with a graphic designer to create imagery for their layouts).So - to get into a small bit of what's going on... In Portraiture class we've been going through and working with lighting styles and looking at how to light both males and females differently to accentuate them...
Read more...So the first week of school is officially over for me. I don't know if I should take the time to type "yeay!" or not. I guess I just did. Anyway - it was a good week. I like all my classes, and I think the classmates I have in them are all quite awesome. I like what we're going to be doing in Fashion class on Mondays, Digital Photographic Art Direction on Tuesdays, Alternative Processes II and Portraiture on Wednesdays... I've scheduled myself for darkroom time at school on Sundays, late, just before they close.I'm really looking forward to posting the images...
Read more...Have you ever gotten something from somewhere, or made something with your hands and really liked the way it came out, put it away (or moved a few times, misplacing it in some haphazard box), and then forgot about it for a while? Have you then found that 'thing' and looked at it with "new eyes" (a new perspective) and made changes to it with the upgrades and updates to your thoughts and feelings?I have.I've taken some images that I thought were pretty outstanding - but I dislike what I do for the most part. Well, it's not that I dislike it, I just feel I should be doing "better"...
Read more...We've been taught in school that photography is not capturing an image as much as it is capturing light. The image itself is just what is seen through reflected light that bounces off a particular object and is captured in our eyes, deciphered through our brains, and decoded after being put through filters and blinders and stigma and prejudice and emotion. It's true. Though we pretty much all see the same way, physically - for those who can see (and I'm trying to split hairs here - lol), we all don't actually view the same thing the same way as the person right next to us. That...
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