Photo Challenge week 9: Reflections

Shooting this picture was quite challenging. It was hard to find the perfect eyecolor to get my reflection in just right. I had a friend with clear blue eyes model for me, then I had a hazel eyed person model, then this friend with dark brown eyes model and out of the three, this dark brown one came out the best. I was about to give up too. As I was shooting it, all I could see was the lines of the eye but not my own reflection and it wasn't till I moved him into the shade and I stayed in the light that I finally came out.

EOC week 9: 40 under 40

So I was reading a few success stories on the Las Vegas sun about the 40 under 40 people in Las Vegas. These are forty of the thriving, successful business people under forty years of age living in Vegas. Their business is booming from Resurants, to night clubs, to even power ( electrical ). Makes me look at where I am now. I'm nineteen years old about to turn twenty and I'm in the middle of my success story. Where do I see my self in the next twenty years?

In Twenty years i want to make Modelstatus Photography a thriving business full of loyal clientel. I want to be shooting for magazines and I want to be making thousands per photoshoot. i want to have my own studio in a condo somewhere in some high up business building and I want to have at least three different sized studios run by me and most likely a partner and a few interns from the colleges so they get that hands on experiance and I don't have to pay tyhem a dime, haha.

EOC: Are celebrities fair game?

I believe that when a celebrety decides to become a public figure, they are initially decicing to become fair game to the world. They basically give up their privacy.

EOC week 6: Ron Galella

Week 6 Photo Challenge: Painting with Light

This photograph was taken in the dead of night underneath the sewers of Sunrise Manor. A couple of friends and I went exploring after I scouted the place prior and found graffiti on the walls of the tunnels. Wanting to illuminate the walls, I decided to do  lighting painting so I could get the graffiti with a romantic type of illumination. I found a really neat lighting process with fire. It's painting light with steel wool. Basically you rub steel wool against a battery while it's tied to a clothes hanger or something durable against fire. When the steel wool communicates with the battery it catches on fire. After that, it basically shoots out tiny fireballs which makes for a really cool effect.

In this image I basically motioned my hands as if I were doing graffiti myself just to make it look like my light was also graffiti and it kinda looks legit.

EOC week 5: Copyright Process for Photographers

One thing as one must know as a photographer is that copyright infringement can happen at any given moment, almost surely when you least expect it. A quote in our book summerizes the whole copyright thing in a simple saying, "It's not a matter of if, it's a matter of when". Keeping this in your mind at all times and guarding your ass will save you heartbreak over stolen work for years to come, but how does one go about that?

A way to go about it is registering your work as soon as you create it, for copyrights exists as soon as the art is created. You do this by registering your work systematically using the Form VA (Visual Arts). This way it is legally registered by law, so if you ever find your art work stolen, you can meet up with your attorney and sue the culprit for a lot of money.

Another way, which requires less work is inserting in your metadata your name the copyright and the date thaat way, if it ever is stolen, and you become aware, there is some sort of copyright claim on it so I can sue them, or make them halt their production.

If ever you find yourself being accused of infringement, you must rid the pictures you used that you basically stole and forget about it, if they pursue you with a lawyer, that's when it's time to get serious, but usually they just forget about it as long as you stop using the picture stolen and you manage to scare you, they'll be happy.

And that is Copyright 101.

BOC week 5: Competitive Analysis

www.mixtiomedia.com

Looking into Mixtio Media, I found out that the man behind the whole company is a fellow AI student, from Dallas and he runs his own company where he is open to whatever comes his way. I started looking into his galleries and found that in my opinion, his photography isn't that good when it comes to shooting portraits, kids, events and just everything except his modeling pictures. He does a good job a lighting and portraying his subjects in a model-esque manner. While the concepts are a bit unflattering to the models, who am I to judge the artistic creation of another.

http://www.wix.com/googlepixels/keith-carter

Judging by the website, this guy is pretty entry level, despite the fact that he graduated from a top photography schools in the nation, which isn't mentioned on about him section of the website.  His name is Keith Carter and according to his about him section, his photographic forte is product photography. Also mentioned is that he "maintains and is always expanding an Internationally recognized and award winning photo surrealistic portfolio of images that is closed to the public right now." Judging from his online portfolio, I think this guy is in the wrong field, because honestly his product photography isn't his best work, his landscape on the other hand is beautiful and outshines the rest of his work.

http://www.nclphotography.com/

NCL Photography is a company run by two people, Nelson Leonard and Ann Leary. And while their website isn't as fancy as modern websites tend to be, they have a pretty neat gallery up their sleeve. With their forte being Architecture and Real estate, these people look like they make bank, seeing the size of their portfolio, though I'm sure they could make more if they raised their rates. Up their sleeves, they are also savvy with HDR editing with looks breath taking. And if being amazing wasn't enough, they go the extra mile by also specializing in Portraiture and Wedding photography, this duo has he upper hand when it comes to the previous to, this is probably because their are more of a professional partnership business then a single person run one.

http://www.nyhotelphotographer.com/

This company is probably the most Pro of the bunch. At the head, Peter Hassel is the photographer making the big bucks here, with an impressive list of clientele and reviews from people in big office chairs, you know Peter is legit. Specializing in Hotel photography, Peter makes himself known he's got the eye and the lighting tech savvy abilities to keep him up top. Hassel's gallery is beautiful work you'd see in any spa or advertising brochure of a elegant company, it reminds me of a certain couple from our own AI that shoot from the Station Casinos. In all, Peter is successful and provides exceptional work, though his people shots are kinda eh, he should stick to architecture.