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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Feeling down? Saddle up!

My second assignment in my portraiture class was an environmental portrait of an interesting person. I chose to photograph my friend Amy who owns a horse (which to me, is super interesting). The requirements for this assignment were restricting. The photo had to be taken in open shade or using north light, it also had to have a shallow depth of field and be produced in black and white. So naturally my thought process was, "ahhh!"
Luckily Amy and I had talked about shooting her portraits long before the assignment, so I knew I had a very willing and enthusiastic model. Lady on the other had was more concerned with the treats that were floating around to keep her attention (p.s. horses like licking reflectors, Lady was quite curious about my gold reflector at the beginning of the shoot). All in all I really enjoyed photographing Amy and trying my hand at photographing something larger than a dog. After this, I would love to continue photographing horses, they are such amazing creatures especially in motion! Thank you again Amy and Lady!

This is the photo I used for the assignment.

This is my favorite photo!

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This is a close second because of the moment I was able to capture!

Lady

I love the motion, I really want to expand on this!

Hope you enjoyed my photos. I am always available for any professional photography for any occasion, and photos are also available for purchase. Please leave comments and suggestions. Thank you for you continuous support. -Deanna C. Sakal

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Classmate Portrait

This quarter I am taking a class which I will consider my biggest challenge. I am taking portraiture, which I will not lie, is not my favorite type of photography.
My first assignment was a classmate portrait, and somehow I ended up shooting my roommate Levi. We had to portray something about our subject that people do not know or is just part of that persons life, and it cannot be that they are a photographer. I focused on the fact that Levi is obsessed with his hair and appearance. I tried to shoot from a realistic point of view. I hope you think this is an accurate representation.

Friday, April 6, 2012

Puerto Rico

Over spring break my family and I went on a trip to Puerto Rico. It was a fantastic, much needed break. I used the trip as a relaxed photography opportunity. I had never been to Puerto Rico and cannot wait until my return trip there. Next time I hope to visit the rain forest next time. This past trip we visited Old San Juan and went to the two old fortresses. I hope you enjoy me photos and my trip through my camera lens.

Old San Juan, Pueto Rico. Castillo San Christobal is the largest fortification in the Americas. It was used to protect the city from land attacks against rivals such as England in 1598 and Holland in 1625.

HMS Bounty, used for the movie "Mutiny on the Bounty"

Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Still Life Final!

I loved Still Life and I really would like it to be a part of my future. For the final we each had to roll dice and get a number 2-12. the number then represented a month. I got five which equals May. We had to do two images which represent that month. we had to have the number represented somehow in the image either with the number of items in the picture or the number itself. A lot of people in my class got may, so I wanted to go a different unique route. I did not want to do flowers or spring in any way. I decided to do Memorial Day and a golf picture. I am happy with both and the uniqueness of them for the assignment. I hope you enjoy the images!

Fashion

A few weeks ago I was given the assignment of food or fashion. I went with fashion. This shoot was a struggle because the image was not Plan A or Plan B but maybe Plan G. My mom had sent me some stuff by mail to shoot, and it ended up getting lost, grrrr. The package was eventually found but it was frustrating at the time. Anyway I had this bracelet from Italy that was in the form of a snake. I fount some wood and grass in the backyard and made a earthy habitat for my snake. One of my plans was to use a photo I had from a Thread shoot, but I wanted to shoot something new. I hope you enjoy my snake.

This is a photo I really liked from my Thread shoot.

Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Editorial Image

This week I had to shoot an editorial image, which for this assignment meant five or more objects. I went the baking route, and used different tools found around the kitchen. Here is what I came up with. Hope it makes you want to bake some cookies.

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Handy, Reflective Chains

This week I had to photograph something reflective. My aunt Pat, a few years back gave my dad this monster of a metal hand as a gag gift. I decided to wrap the hand in chains (reflective) and created this photo, which I am super proud of!

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

White Line, Black Line, and Mason Jars

My assignment this week was to photograph glass in two different settings, white line and black line. I decided to shoot blue mason jars for this assignment and I was very excited to shoot this one. For non photography people, white line is the reflection of the lights on the edge of the glass showing the shape. Black line is a silhouette of the glass outlining the edges and texture in black. Unfortunately when my jars were mailed to me one broke, but i decided to shoot it anyway with a different concept. Here is the final product, which I'm really pleased with!

White line

Black line, and yes this was all done in camera in one shot!

Plants

We recently had to do an assignment of plant texture. I will say now I liked my image, and then got to class and realized it was a failure... sad day. Oh well I just found another way to fail but I learned from it, and plan to try again! Here is what I came up with. I'm convinced this plant looks like a bacteria or a dinosaur plant! I shot the light through the leaves trying to show the texture, but it was way harder than expected.

This is the photo I turned in for the assignment.

Monday, January 23, 2012

Just a Little Abstract

My second assignment with the view camera (which I will eventually put a picture of on here so you can see this lovely monster, which I must confess I do like using) was an abstract image. I was frustrated with the result because I had an off day (yes it happens to the best of us) and this assignment had my name all over it, and I feel like I just came up short this week. I may reshoot this assignment because I know I can do much better! Here is what I came up with, I bet you can guess what I shot this week.