san francisco

assignment: creative portrait

[camera: mamiya c330 / film: kodak tmax 100]

assignment: human scale

[camera: rolleicord / film: kodak b&w tmax100]

nobody famous

nobody famous

goat island, south carolina

guilty pleasure

assignment: design layout

a few months ago i posted some behind the scenes photos of a project i worked on for my design class. the assignment was to create a layout: 2 pages, 5-8 images, one unifying theme.

my layout was an editorial spread for a magazine about a movie (based on a story i wrote during the fall semester). the film opens up with the bathroom scene below and continues to backtrack, telling about the relationship of this man and woman. the piece is a character study on two people who found each other when it seemed things couldn't get any worse in either of their lives - they began to depend on each other, despite the fact that neither was stable enough to help the other person. after some time, both realize they are stuck in their situation - can't live with, can't live without. they need each other to breathe but are slowly killing each other in the process. 

the scenes on the bottom row are snapshots from the movie, as well - pieces of the puzzle that lead us back to the main scene.

i remember getting the idea for this story last summer after a dream i had, but i was only able to see the bathroom scene. so, i wrote it down and forgot about it. then october rolled around and a friend gave me florence and the machine's lungs album. the moment the last song began playing, the story was right back in my head again. turns out the song isn't actually on the album, and is instead from the twilight movie soundtrack, recorded specifically for that movie. the title of the track is heavy in your arms. (as a side note, i later found out the band rereleased the album with this track on it, so...thankfully... i no longer *have* to claim twilight and it's soundtrack as a source of inspiration).  - - - while planning for this, i continued to listen to the album. the song kiss with a fist stood out as another player in the storytelling process and i used both of the songs listed above to iron out the details of my movie. 

i have to thank both my models and assistants again for all their help on this. ashton and jason, you two were fantastic, especially ashton for sitting in that water for so long while we got the lighting right! michael and anna, thank you both for your helping hands - i couldn't have done it without you guys!

[all images were shot using my rolleicord and kodak tmax 100 b&w film]

a bigger version on the main scene:

assignment: high key / low key

object lighting class: one object, one background, two different lighting setups. 

high key = softer light and shadows, lighter tone

low key = more dramatic lighting with darker shadows and higher contrast

[shot on tmax 100 b&w film using mamiya c330]

mississippi river, new orleans

another film scan: shot on kodak plus-x 125 with my rolleicord iv