Posts Tagged ‘ photo shoot ’

forgotten but not quite dead.

Listening to: Say Hello To The Angels — Interpol

Holla! I realize that I’ve been gone for quite awhile. But recently (or more-than-recently, as it would seem) my life has been Busy. Since my last post nearly a month ago, several Events occurred: Prize Night, at which I was awarded my school’s prize for excellence in photography (and a copy of Vanity Fair: The Portraits, which is mostly why this was the most notable of the three awards I received), and graduation, where a great number — maybe even a majority — of my friends gradu-danced off to that Big Boarding School in the Sky, also known as college.

More importantly, though, I squeezed through finals week with minimal injury and even got to leave campus a day early. On my first day back in the Midwest, I managed to get rearended at the grocery store/sent to the ER/saddled with whiplash, which sucks. But what doesn’t suck is my drawing class, which met for the first time last Wednesday and which is where I discovered that compressed charcoal is very, very, mess. What also doesn’t suck is the fact that my summer dance classes start this coming week, even if buying ballet shoes made me feel like an elephant (I wear a 14 women’s ballet shoe; the girl trying on shoes next to me wore a 2.5/3). And, for the first time in my life, I have an actual job, which means that I’ll be making $200 in a month or less and all without working in foodservice or manual labor.

And, of course, since I’ve gotten home, I’ve been taking photographs. Here are a bunch:

Of course, there’s far more, but the WordPress Dashboard isn’t cooperating with me uploading photos at the moment. Blé’s gone to Poland, so I’m out of my primary model for the moment, but luckily I have far more willing friends here than at boarding school. So, hopefully, I will write soon, and there will be more photos to come.

this is a post; I feel compelled to post.

Listening to: Brett Dennen — Surprise, Surprise

Ahhh Easter everyone. I failed to get up at eight and go to church this morning, furthering my failure at being Catholic.

This has been the longest week all year, and now I’m sitting here and realizing that the year’s almost over and I haven’t gotten anywhere. Maybe that’s a lie. I asked two boys to model for me for the first time ever; the first was awkwardish and tense, as I’d expected, but the second was really fun because my model was really fun/ a photographer himself. I would show these photos to you, but I still have to obtain consent to do so.

Lately I’ve been spending all my online-time on my tumblr, which is one of myriad reasons why posts on here have been so infrequent. My (though not sincerest) apologies. I’ve also been somewhat busy, procrastinating all of my real-life duties by attempting to have a social life, and dealing with the horrors that come with that. There are only a few more weeks of dealing with this, though, then three months of drawing classes and freedom and vitamin D-rehab.

hammerpants.

Listening to: Peter Gabriel — In Your Eyes

Happy spring, bloglings! I love spring. Except that I don’t have a functional umbrella and it’s raining 24/7, this season is pretty sick. Before it started raining, Blé and I got to working on our photo shoot. And it was a real Fashion Shoot this time, as evidenced by the fact that the clothes didn’t fit.

So, without further ado, authoraiINK is proud to present a selection  of “hammerpants.” Please note that the title of the shoot has little to do with the content of the following images.

it’s only the end of the world.

Listening to: Panic! At the Disco — Nails For Breakfast, Tacks For Snacks

Let me begin with a complaint: my coccyx aches. I just had my weave taken out and my hair wrangled into single braids, so now I’m blonder than ever. Firefox crashed every time I tried to upload this header photo and every time I turn on any sort of media all I hear about is news of death and destruction and even more impending doom. Maybe we set the year 0A.D. too far back and it’s already the Mayans’ 2012, and we’re all going to die (well, we are anyway, eventually, and I don’t actually believe that 2012 is Armageddon because Ragnarok should totally come on a February 31st).

On Saturday I went house shopping with my aunt and cousin and enjoyed petting other people’s cats and debating doors vs. windows as sniper targets (my cousin doesn’t want to live in a house with lots of windows, because “nobody’s ever been shot through a door;” I told her I was going to shoot her through a door just to prove her wrong). I won a silver medal for a double exposure LC-A+ print in the national Scholastic Art Awards, despite my photography teacher’s telling me not to hold my breath waiting to win anything. And I’ve planned an epic photoshoot with Blé for Friday inspired by:

but in suburbia and with cheaper clothes (obviously, since stylist/photographer anwa has a nonexistent clothes budget and all the shmancy vintage dresses she just inherited from her mother are at the cleaner’s). Have I ever mentioned that I love love love Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott, possibly definitely even more than I love Annie Leibovitz (okay, definitely definitely more)? But I’m having a crisis of method in deciding whether to shoot this shoot in digital or in film, but I’m kind of leaning towards the film because then I get to use all of my better lenses AND I will take a “behind the scenes” little photo-movie with my new Flip camera to make up for the fact that it’ll take way too long to get the prints developed.

said the angsty teenage raven, “nevermore… shall I believe movie rumors”.

Listening to: Pony Pony Run Run — Hey You

‘Allo there! These have been a busy few days. Yesterday I saw Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows with my buddy El. Since it was a Monday night, there were only a few of us in the theater, so we were able to giggle/ plot explain/ complain about how a specific few of the rumors we’d heard were untrue. But before that I was getting my hair redone (the blonde streak’s gone now… sad face) and before that I was playing the Sims 3 Late Night, where I managed to cheat myself into a corner regarding their new “celebrity” feature. A vaguely amusing note before we journey on to my next topic: my Sims screenshots share a surprising number of aesthetic similarities with my real-life photographs.

Is it not so?

But, anyway, on Sunday Blé came over and we staged a photoshoot, styled and shot by yours truly. And since I was aware of the inevitable criticisms of my photo prof (“She looks so angsty…”/ “It’s so posed!”/ “What is the narrative here?”), I decided to make the narrative “Teenage Angst as Channeled by Poe’s Raven”. So I’d like to see him argue with that.

Well, I’m off for Montréal in a few hours, so there will be no internet/ prolly no posts for a few days. Until then, Happy (American) Thanksgiving — go and stuff yourselves with good food until Karl Lagerfeld will no longer look over the top of your head!

nymph-marie.

Listening to: Of Montreal — Labyrinthian Pomp

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Just a quick photo post. In the 15-minute window yesterday between the end of classes and my soccer game, I shot about 101 photos and decided which six I was keeping. Then, today, my photography teacher informed me that my styling and my photography style aren’t quite meshing. In my defense, I didn’t have much time or means to go all Grace Coddington on this one, but I like it. Ah well.

Coming soon: my pre-rant on the 90th anniversary edition of Vogue Paris, why I think it’s awesome, and why it makes me want to barf a little. Also, how I really don’t want Terry Richardson’s name to start showing up in my little sidebar tag cloud.

what we wore and who we shot.

Listening to: Tegan & Sara — On Directing

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So today was kind of hectic. I have a photo assignment (portraits) due, and one of my models bailed on me at the last minute. However, I did get some shots done, and maybe-new-guestblogger Em (who coincidentally is the model who bailed on me) and I decided to show you what we wore today, because we’re stylish and in dress code and all. So here are our stylin’ outfits:

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And here is one shot from my shoot today:

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And I have too much work to do now, so I will write later. Oh, this school year started way too fast.

photographic gallery piece.

Listening to: Of Montreal — Gallery Piece

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Today we shot some photos just for fun. We had dramatic lighting and trendy outfits and uncomfortable shoes, and we stood on tables where the ceiling was too low. We had a great time, but now I have a ton of photos to edit. Le (semi) sigh. But tomorrow the September issues will be out at my local bookstore, and I will be able to amuse you with fashion-y photos that I didn’t take!

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me and the menagerie.

Listening to: Rockwell feat. Michael Jackson — Somebody’s Watching Me

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Around midnight last night I got bored and decided to take some photos. But everyone reasonable in my house had long gone to bed, so I was left with my collection of stuffed animals, magazines, and various beauty products and jewelry. It was fun posing my little models with random objects from around my room. The photos came out a bit more soft-and-vintagey than I’d have liked (my preference and general style being sharp-and-modern), but I think a few of them are usable. Unfortunately, WordPress and my computer have some issues with each other, so I was only able to upload these two.

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tea for three.

Listening to: Larsen B — Marilyn

Well. Yesterday I had a small photo shoot. Unlike the others, this was one that I’d planned down to the last prop. The theme was “Tea for Three”, even though there was only one model — the other two guests were a stuffed pink hippopotamus and me, the photographer.

I was a bit disappointed, though, because it didn’t work out quite as I’d planned it. This was because of the lighting (poor for the indoor portion of the shoot), the fact that my camera couldn’t deal with this without flash (I’m begging for a D90 about now), and the sad realization that models do need acting skills to make a theme work (sorry, ‘Cuz, but it’s true). However, of the 200+ photos I shot, I did end up with about 15 that I really liked — an okay turnover, if you ask me. Here are even fewer of those.

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