Friday, December 17, 2010
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Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Bubblegum and Lollipops
For a recent stock assignment, I shot my friend's daughters with the theme of greed expressed through monopoly. The following three images, I feel, demonstrate that the best from the recent shoot I did with them. It's poppy, bubblegum and lollipop style shooting which I thought fit their personas rather well.
--Roman
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| From Sophia Bed |
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| From Sophia Bed |
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| From Sophia Bed |
--Roman
Thank you, Christie Deddens!
It's no real secret that I've been pretty unsure of what area of photography I want to specialize. I've always really liked pictures that make the viewer do a double or even a triple take while they try and figure out what's going on. I have a sense of humor that most people don't appreciate, so I always dismissed my penchant for funny portraits as something that no one else would get, and would never get me hired. Actually, I assumed the contrary.
During a recent portfolio review, many of the reviewers noted that there's some common thread throughout my work, but none of them could really put a finger on it until I sat down with Christie Deddens of Deddens and Deddens photographer reps. She noticed I like quirky, funny, portraits. I had told her about my recent foray into the film department during my senior year at Art Center and she asked me what films I liked. I told her The Cohen Brothers, but afterwards wised I could have added Sam Raimi's Evil Dead series as well as the work of Terry Gilliam.
Regardless, she said I seem to like the offbeat, perhaps even WTF moments. I wholeheartedly agreed and I told her about my reservations with the genre. She said no, go for it! If I'm passionate about it, someone will get it. We talked for the remainder of the session about how I was clearly passionate about this type of work and how I should pursue it. During the time we were talking, ideas for 3 photo shoots popped into my head, and for the first time in a long time, I felt invigorated and excited to make new work. It's unfortunate, but I have been in a slump for quite some time. Almost like a ship without a working compass in the daytime. I feel like the more I go in any direction, the further I'll get away from where I might want to end up, so I stagnated.
I'm so excited about this epiphany that I don't even care that it came in my last two weeks at Art Center and renders most of the work in my portfolio useless. I can honestly say I have 3 prints in my book that are remotely close to what I want to shoot now. The strongest was a gift from my good friend Jesse Stone, who during a lighting test on location game me some gold and allowed me to recognize the kind of work that I want to make.
Over the past week since the meeting with Christie, I've begun to realign my photographic sensibilities and looking for an appropriate website. I'm in the process of trying to buy whatthephoto.com for use in this endeavor. It's owned by a blogger who used it for 3 months and then pulled it down. I'm making an offer through godaddy. Hopefully the guy will want a little extra cash for the holidays and I can score a rather cool site name that most will remember much easier than the car wreck that is my surname.
--Roman
During a recent portfolio review, many of the reviewers noted that there's some common thread throughout my work, but none of them could really put a finger on it until I sat down with Christie Deddens of Deddens and Deddens photographer reps. She noticed I like quirky, funny, portraits. I had told her about my recent foray into the film department during my senior year at Art Center and she asked me what films I liked. I told her The Cohen Brothers, but afterwards wised I could have added Sam Raimi's Evil Dead series as well as the work of Terry Gilliam.
Regardless, she said I seem to like the offbeat, perhaps even WTF moments. I wholeheartedly agreed and I told her about my reservations with the genre. She said no, go for it! If I'm passionate about it, someone will get it. We talked for the remainder of the session about how I was clearly passionate about this type of work and how I should pursue it. During the time we were talking, ideas for 3 photo shoots popped into my head, and for the first time in a long time, I felt invigorated and excited to make new work. It's unfortunate, but I have been in a slump for quite some time. Almost like a ship without a working compass in the daytime. I feel like the more I go in any direction, the further I'll get away from where I might want to end up, so I stagnated.
I'm so excited about this epiphany that I don't even care that it came in my last two weeks at Art Center and renders most of the work in my portfolio useless. I can honestly say I have 3 prints in my book that are remotely close to what I want to shoot now. The strongest was a gift from my good friend Jesse Stone, who during a lighting test on location game me some gold and allowed me to recognize the kind of work that I want to make.
Over the past week since the meeting with Christie, I've begun to realign my photographic sensibilities and looking for an appropriate website. I'm in the process of trying to buy whatthephoto.com for use in this endeavor. It's owned by a blogger who used it for 3 months and then pulled it down. I'm making an offer through godaddy. Hopefully the guy will want a little extra cash for the holidays and I can score a rather cool site name that most will remember much easier than the car wreck that is my surname.
--Roman
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