Photography II (week 9)

This week I finished my last Portraits for my Senior Capstone on discrimination. I work with Zoe, at her house, and told her to dress how she would normally dress. for these portraits (and many of the photos I take) I like people to feel comfortable and natural so I usually don't make them wear anything specific. Today Zoe was in her CCSU zip up and leggings, an outfit many of us college students wear!

In each of the photos I am only slightly coaching the subjects. I am only telling them to think about the story they are sharing with me, how it affected them, how they reacted, how they have begun to rebuild themselves and how they are today. I enjoy this photo and how it fits with the rest of the images for my project in that they show a progression. each person is in a different stage of their story and Zoe's is a good one to end with.

 

I want to thank everyone who has helped me with my Capstone, and Participated. I wouldn't have been able to do it with out them and i am honored that they agreed to share their stories with me.

Photography II (week 8)

Back to photographing the always fabulous Shay! She has been awesome to take and put in different situations; Shay always finds a way to make it fun. Whether we are out in the snow (which she hates) or the park where it's a little muddy (and she had her new sneakers on....) she just jumps right in and I always get awesome shots!

Here are  a few from the week! More will be uploaded after I finish going through them!

Photography II (week 7)

This week I had the pleasure of working with my very good friend Shandra! She looked very studious today so I decided the stacks in the library would be a fun new location for a Photo shoot!

I wanted to make sure her silliness along with her love of books and awkward dancing (those photos will be posted soon) came through in every moment I captured.

I feel as though I accomplished that with these images this week!

Photography II (week 6)

This week I am working with Shay again, however we are focusing this weeks portraits more towards my Senior Capstone. The theme of this Capstone is discrimination and how it can tear a person apart. on the other side of that I'm looking at how people can build themselves backup after something as destructive as being discriminated against.

Shay volunteered to be apart of my Capstone along with Halle and my friend Zoe, all Strong women who have faced discrimination in some form or another, but have been able to rebuild.

These first two images show shay as her silly self and her happy self. Two sides that no one really gets to see. She is a goofball and I wanted to make sure that came through in at least one of her photos.

The last image is the one I will be using in my capstone. It portrays a person who has been through the tough parts of life but is pulling through and becoming stronger every day.  

Photography II (week 5)

This week I worked with Ava!

Photography II (week 4)

Hello!

This week I am working with my cousin Halle, she agreed to help me out with my Senior Capstone! we ventured out into the nice fresh weather today (almost 60 degrees in the middle of the winter) to take advantage of that natural light!

I love when I get spend time with my cousin and photograph her, she really enjoys it an gets into the moment!

I will be using the B&W image of her at the end for my Capstone and the rest are just for fun! Enjoy!

 

Photography II (week 3)

Hey Everyone!

Week 3 of Photography 2 and I challenged myself to take some self portraits that weren't just me sitting posing for a photo. I tried to get different angles and different lighting.

This week was challenging, I didn't have my remote so that was interesting.... I also couldn't get just the right angle and facial expression I was looking for. I haven't taken self portraits in a while so I think I am just a little out of practice.

For the next week I am going to practice self portraits as well as portraits of some different people to see where I can go with this!

Stay Tuned...

This was the only image out of about 200 taken that I really enjoyed.