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Flagship at Harvest House

Harvest House is a new venue in Boone, NC (located next to the bowling alley on Boone Heights Drive).  Last week Flagship played an amazing show for a Why the Woods? benefit concert.

Mohawks!!

I've started shooting a series of people's backs, actually I started yesterday but its going great so far.  I photographed 6 of my guy friends and hopefully next week I'll shoot a few more and a bunch of girls. So excited!! The series is based off of my friend Kelly's back thats a few posts back.  After all that I had some extra time in the studio so I messes around with some more back lighting which I really like.  I forcibly mohawked Brandon's hair and got these cool pics!! I'll post back photos once they're edited!

Joanna

What better way to start Spring Break then with a photoshoot in wonderful weather? Last night at 1am I drove home to Greensboro and arrived super late. It was worth it though, because today was gorgeous and sunny and 50 degrees with NO SNOW!! Finally! I told my friend Joanna that I wanted to photograph her while I was in town, so we got together and did some shooting.  We ended up in Stokesdale in this little nook of woods.  The late evening light was really nice, thought a little hot at times. I'm practicing using my flash....still.....but I think it finally clicked today and I get it now! Enjoy!

Skin and Silhouettes

I haven't posted in a while and feel really horrible about it.  I haven't been shooting as consistently as I would like, besides once a week in the studio, because of all the snow that has gotten dumped on Boone. I have, however, been busy editing some photos that I plan to post soon. In the mean time, here are a few shoots from the other day.

This was a skin shoot for my Fashion and Beauty class.  My friend and dancer, Kelly, modeled for me, so her back is amazing! I think it turned out well and I really love the dramatic shadows!  My friend, Ian, suggested turning it into a series and I'm really excited about that idea, so we'll see where that goes.

After my initial shoot I wanted to mess around with some backlighting.  I did backlighting one other time but it didn't turn out exactly the way I wanted. It took a while to set up the lights because I was having trouble with the floor being too dark and her being too light.  After adjusting my aperture so it wasn't wide open (which I should have realized in the first place, duh!) we had success. This photo required minimal editing which was really exciting! All I did was make the background more white and add a curves layer. The silhouette of Kelly is as it was shot!

Black and White

Once again, Boone is covered in snow with a lovely side of ice. The ice and snow, however, are gorgeous even if it is dangerous, especially for those of us who try and drive in it. I believe my car, Snow White (how fitting right?) is currently stuck in her parking spot.

The other day I developed film that I left in the lab, but was finally able to scan it on Wednesday.  I love film so much now!

My cousins live in the mountains of North Carolina and I visited them over Christmas break.  My cousin, well she's like 60 or something so I guess she's like a 2nd or 3rd cousin (I don't understand that stuff), has this amazing basement with lots of produce from her garden.  I loved the way the light was hitting everything in this photo.  And those potatoes in the bottom right are HUGE!! Probably the biggest potatoes I've ever seen!

My beautiful room mate, Emily. 

Paige

Yesterday I photographed my neighbor, Paige, in the studio.  The shoot was kinda thrown together at the last minute, because I thought my car was stuck in the snow and scratched my previous idea.  Fortunately, I was able to move my car and traverse through the snow to the studio.  I didn't really have a plan for the shoot except that I wanted some kind of fashion and needed to practice posing models. All in all it went rather well, except my lens was being weird and wouldn't focus right, but its all good!  Brooke and Zach assisted for me and they did a great job! I have some more images I might put up later, but the editing is still underway.