Trying different things

School has been busier then ever.  I'm being pretty good about keeping up with assignments and doing them in advanced.  This week is even more important since I will be taking a trip to LA this weekend for the Musink Tattoo Convention and Music Festival.

While in LA, the garment district will be awesome for background fabrics.  I went to WPPI (Wedding and Portrait Photographer) convention last week and there were many booths that were lumped together with backdrops hanging and bundled and folded.  It reminded me of a swap meet.  It also reminded me that I can go to LA and probably get some pretty amazing fabrics to make backgrounds and not ridiculously priced either.

Hopefully, with the change of scenery, I can get some pretty good photo taking this weekend.  Here's a couple of my assignments turned in last week.  This one is my architectural assignment in 4x5 large format class.

This place...I don't even want to talk about it right now.  All I have to say is it's my second home and that's not a good thing!

This next picture is from a cookbook assignment for Commercial Photography class.  I've come to realize that I haven't really tried taking photos of food and I probably should take the Food Photography class because it is much more complicated then it seems

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My Busy Life

It's been a very busy, fast paced couple of weeks.  Assignments are rolling in one after the other and it's not just photo assignments either.  The cost of this semester is also rolling in all at once.  I just picked up a Manfrotto tripod yesterday to support the monster large format camera I have to lug around...not to mention I really needed it for my almost as heavy DSLR.  Fortunately, I should be able to claim them on taxes this year for school purposes!

I did a very fun photoshoot the other day, details I can't really mention or talk about since it is a Valentine's Day gift.  This week I'm shooting an editorial portrait for commercial class and a 3+ story building for an architectural assignment.  Fun!  I can't wait to try out the film processing.

Back in high school, I took photography classes and there was no digital back then.  Hanging out in a darkroom and loading reels of film was exciting back then.  Unfortunately, we won't be doing those things in large format class.  We are going to be doing some sort of developing of film, but I'm not sure what it involves yet.  I find out on Monday or Tuesday.

Here's a couple of the group shots I took for an assignment a couple weeks ago.  I submitted the first one, but I think I should have submitted the second one.

The second one reminds me of a band picture.  I'll call them the Georgia Carpet Company Band.