WE'RE OFF TO SEE THE WIZARD...

I have had this idea written in my little idea book for years and I finally got to put it to use! And I love how it turned out, just as I had imagined! I wanted to do a Wizard of Oz theme shoe spread with the lion in furry boots, Dorothy in reed heels, the scarecrow in black boots, the tinman in silver heels and the witch in point black heels. I wanted it to be a modern take on the characters with a fun magazine cut out feel. Thanks to everyone who made this happen from my leg models (Erin and Sam) to my shoe lenders (Sarah, Sam and Mandy). I couldn't have done it without you guys!

Now off to San Diego to visit my brother for spring break in 10 days!!

PHONOGRAPH + URBAN DECAY

Not the usual mix, just a phonograph and urban decay... haha, these next assignments required something larger than a tabletop (phonograph) and a cosmetic (eyeshadow). It's hard to photograph large things and make it interesting. This is actually my grandparents but they gave it to my mom because she loved it so much. I always remember my mom playing K-K-K-Katie on it when we would visit my grandparents. The Urban Decay eyeshadow was a gross shoot. Only because it involved me smashing gum into concrete to make it look like a city street, haha.

ÉN GRY & SIF - AVON GLASS

I have really been loving textures lately and I think it's pretty obvious with my next assignment. We were given the task to do both an open assignment (we got to CHOOSE what to take photos of!!!) and glass or alcohol shot that were advertisements. I'm starting with my open assignment because I really loved how it turned out. I was wanting to shoot something that I felt fit my style and something that I would enjoy photographing so I chose this cute clutch that was a gift to me from Én Gry & Sif. Such a neat company! All the textures with the fuzzy wool, crisp dried flowers and gritty wood. I added the blurry flowers on the right just for this post because I liked how to two went together. And the red candy dish is actually an Avon Collectible from my Grandma.

MORTAR + PESTLE

This assignment was to take a photo of a timeless object, one that wouldn't be dated in a few years. I photographed this beautiful olive wood mortar and pestle from Anthropologie. I love the richness and textures.

THE UGLI TRUTH

Here's my next assignment, a magazine spread for food. I totally went an opposite way from everyone else in the class doing a more comical style but I think it turned out great! This is another design I made myself. It's has such a fun yearbook superlatives feel! And yes, it's real. Ugli fruit is really a fruit... and it's really yummy! I made the faces by hand which were also a lot of fun to create.

KNITTY GRITTY

Whew! Halfway through the quarter already. Here's one of my first assignments. Our guidelines were just to make an editorial fashion item so I really wanted to shoot my beautiful knit headband from Anthropologie (LOVELOVELOVE this store!!!). We worked with a designer to come up with a fashion editorial spread for a magazine. I actually made this design on my own while messing around in my spare time and thought it was pretty cute! I actually love designing as well as photography so it's hard for me to not play around with my images. :) It was a great experience to work with a designer and challenging at the same time to make sure it was something that we both could benefit from. More soon...

SWINE FLU: DON'T BLAME THE PIG!

Don't be concerned, even though the flu is running rampant over college campuses, I have not gotten sick (knock on wood!) yet. Our next assignment was to create an editorial spread on an issue and with the flu being all around me, I decided to play on that. I wanted to mess with the fact that people were scared to eat pork products with fear of getting this so called "swine flu." So of course, I made pork look sick. I based it on an article from Time called Swine Flu: Don't Blame the Pig!

mentos + finals

It is finally that time... finals week! Usually I dread this week but this quarter I am very lucky to have an easy finals week even though I have one at the last time possible on Friday, yuck! I am finally recovering after being sick with a horrible virus for the past week. I was lucky to not have a final until Wednesday so I got to go home and recover before taking my finals. Here is my final project for the still life class. It is for a two image set that works together. My grandma gave me the purple necklace and I have always thought it looked like Mentos and I happen to be a HUGE fan of Mentos. What better excuse to eat them? Thought I would play and make the necklace look like the candy and the candy look like the necklace. Fun!

This will be my last post for the next couple weeks because I'm going to California to visit my brother! Many pictures to be expected...

warning: may cause mouth watering

Okay, so I really wish you could smell this through the picture, if so, you would be drooling! My assignment this week was food or fashion and because I always choose the fashion route I decided to mix it up because I have never really shot food. It was fun! Mostly because I got to eat it after I shot it. =)
This is a really good dish my mom makes with seared scallops and mango salsa. Mmm..


2 weeks left of classes and then finals! and then.... CALIFORNIA!!!

sundae crime scene

You may be a little confused by the title but I think the picture explains itself. My assignment was to shoot an editorial image with at least five items. I chose to massacre a sundae and call it quits. I think it's pretty entertaining.
Secret of the shoot... it's not real ice cream! I made a special mixture of milk and flour to make it look like melted ice cream. I think it worked pretty well!

reflection

Not a very exciting post this time... Just a photo assignment of a reflective object. It's called skyscraper mascara, hence those are supposed to be skyscrapers in the background. Not too sure how well that worked, haha.

fish friend

My assignment for this week involved created black line and white line glass. I decided to have a little fun with my fish, Azul (aka fishy). I posted some of my favorites from my fashion photography class I had in the fall.

The one on the left was for a fake perfume ad called Vapor. The one on the right was supposed to be a shot of an accessory.

This was for beauty of my beauty-ful friend, Erin!

fab flower

I have officially changed my favorite flower. It is now a "punch" sunflower (I have never seen them before and couldn't find them online... but I bought them at krogers?) I am obsessed. They are gorgeous. I mean come on, they are orange, red, and stripes of yellow with deep purple leaves and a green and purple stem, how awesome?!? I stumbled upon them in search of a flower for my still life assignment that was just supposed to be a flower. The first one is the one I am using but I could help taking more!

snow day!

I was lucky enough today to experience a snow day at ohio university for the first time in many years. And it was fabulous. I got to go outside and enjoy the snow a little bit and took some pictures.

Look a little Narnian? haha


Here's my next school assignment... It was just supposed to be an abstract close up.

egg-cellent

Going into the third week of class, I have my first assignments due in my still life class. Don't get me wrong, still life can be cool but it is not for me. I prefer people! Not only is it a still life class but it also uses the terrible, scary, massive, more expensive than a year of college at OU, view camera with a digital back. It's always fun to try new camera's to shoot with but this one is so intimidating! So for our first technical assignment was to just figure out how to use the darn camera, we were to take a picture of eggs and coffee cups. I thought I would have a little fun with the eggs! And the cups are some cute cups my grandma gave me.