Black and White Color

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!

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

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.

Sunday, January 15, 2012

Natural Light Still Life

Before we started using the view camera we had one last chance to use our cameras for a natural light still life assignment. I literally shot this two hours before class and grabbed the first thing I saw in my kitchen.

Eggs!

Well, I'm back in school and this quarter my photography class focuses on still life! Yay! I really enjoy still life so I'm excited about this class, but I know it will be very detail oriented and stressful. For this class I am not using my digital DSLR camera, but instead we have to use a view camera. A view camera looks very old school but the ones we use have been modified to shoot straight to the computer. Its so technical and difficult learning this new monster but it's exciting at the same time.
For our first assignment we had to photograph and egg. The only rules were it had to be in black and white and there could only be three objects in the frame. I decided to hard boil my egg and then drop it on the table... This is what I shot!

I used a technique known as rise and fall.

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Bewitched Fashion, The Series

I did it! I survived my fashion photography class. For the final we had to do a six image series. The idea has been in my head for a while but I had to find the opportunity, the models , and the location (which fell into my lap). I shoot my final with four lovely models who I went to Italy with. The location was the creepy basement of my friend/model Alex...she has a crematorium in her basement (creepy=PERFECT!) Here are the seven images I chose (I did one extra picture so tell the story)
You have to understand this shoot is completely different than the usual in studio I go for. Im usually about the simple clean image, but I really wanted to challenge myself, which I did in more than one way.

This is one of the rooms where I shot...I got over my fear of spiders during this shoot!

Crematorium room with a tea party

Beautiful model Devin played the innocent tea party guest

Gorgeous models Alex, Emily H., and Emily B. played the creepy tea party guests, Alex was the host it was her basement so I thought it was a good fit!

This is my favorite image!

Sunday, November 20, 2011

Bewitched Fashion (Behind the Scenes)

I have been working on my final but i have had the idea in my head for the least couple of months. My roommate Mary Hautman shot a behind the scenes video of my shoot...so here is a sneak peek of what is to come soon!

Go to this link to see it!!!
Bewitched Fashion- Sneak Peek of a Photo Shoot

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, October 27, 2011

Beauty/Glamour

This past week our assignment was Glamour/Beauty. I decided to base my photos off of peacock feathers. I styled the makeup myself taking the colors from the feathers and here is what I came up with this week.

This is the photo I used for my assignment.

But this was my favorite picture from the shoot!

Sunday, October 16, 2011

October Issue of Thread!

Introducing the October Issue of Thread!!! This is the 7th issue I have worked on. Can you believe it! My work is on pages 32-36 for the cosmetics page (again, apparently I'm good at cosmetics, because I've shoot it four or five times.) Check it out at the link below and tell me what you think!!! Also towards the bottom are a few photos that I shot for the story that I liked and they were not put into the magazine!

http://www.myvirtualpaper.com/doc/thread-magazine/thread-magazine-october-2011/2011101301#0