Photos on February 15!

This workshop was interesting. We were newspaper photographers! We had tasks that needed to be completed I a certain time frame. The task included the story headline that we were shooting photos for, which is very helpful.
This assignment gave me just a quick glimpse of working as a newspaper photographer. It's not like I have a car and need to drive from location to location.. But I did have to go around the high school, which was probably more awkward than photographing people you don't know and people who expect to be photographed.
I never considered newspaper photography a task, I know photos were taken to be in the paper, but it never occurred to me how they were put together.
It's not a job for the money, but for experience.

-ashleycoppolino

photographing again!

When taking a photo, of a person, especially yourself, you check to see if you look good. Without thinking about it, the light effects how your results can be. The light can give your face a sharpness to it, or have it lit poorly, which looses the interest in the face.

Instead of manually controlling the light source, we used the light fixtures in the ceiling and the sun as our sources and used them to our benefit. We had somewhat control, but not all of it.

It was really interesting to see in the pictures that if you move one inch, your whole photograph could change.

-ashleycoppolino

Photography Workshop #2

We mainly focused on aperture, sensitivity and shutter speed.

For film cameras, these three setting are extremely important for the photograph. For digital, as many of you know, there is an automatic mode, which takes care of snapping a basic photo.

The first workshop was focused on artificial light, creating our own studio of light. The second workshop gave us the chance to go outside, which to me, seemed harder than artificial light. I've always taken my photos outside, but when you're standing there trying to adjust every setting as your model is squiggling and trying to fight their eyes from blinking, suddenly does it seem difficult. But it's worth it when you get that photo where the hair is outlined and they eyes are shined as if it was the sun itself.

Workshop #3, here I come!

-ashleycoppolino

Lighting The Room With Rob Goldman!

I won't use the word hate, but its not fair when people look at me saying that I'm "the photographer" or "the photography girl", both of which I have been named numerous times. I feel like there's a standard I need to pass, and I'm trying to pass it, but something is holding me back.

I knew a lot about what Rob was talking about. And I don't mean to sound conceded when I say that, it's just that the technical stuff is the base of photography, which I believe that I am close to overcoming.

I will not say that I am a pro photographer, not close at all, actually, but this stuff that Rob taught today is where I want to advance from. I want to master this to move on to more and more advanced photography.

Anywho, we went over things like harsh and soft light, which is major when shooting your subject. We talked about casting a shadow by placing the light source off to the side of the subject, at a 90 degree angle, the vertex being the subject, so on and so forth.

We used Elisa's camera, which was cool since I have just about the same one, so I knew how to maneuver it.

I was the "model" for the shadowing we did, which I didn't love, but I didn't entirely mind either. I don't really like being in the photo as much as I like taking them.

My favorite part about today is how we only started off with a camera. We had to find a janitor for the light bulb, we used a stool that was lying on the stage and we found a white curtain (used to diffuse the light in the photographs). We scavenged for our supplies. The best part about doing that, is that in the photograph, you don't notice it. You can't tell that we used a piece of paper as a reflector for the light.

It's like we got secrets of a photographer.. I don't know, I find it so fascinating.

-ashleycoppolino

Rob Goldman - Photographer

Rob's actually a pretty interesting guy. Aside from the fact that most artists are interesting people, Rob is definitely different.

A large part of his work is dealing with nude models, which isn't exactly what I am into, but it is definitely a type of photography that is appreciated. He captures the beauty of the human body, which people can't see when they look in the mirror.

Rob's work has been used for AT&T, Marriot Hotels, Microsoft and Nikon, just to name a few. I want to get my work out there like he did, so I for one and very exciting to do this workshop.

What I didn't know about Rob is that he is the co-founder of Art That Matters in Oyster Bay, which some of you may know is where STAC had the charcoals presented last year!

But what I love about Rob's work, is that he doesn't teach photography, let's say, but he does concentrate on the human being that concentrates on the photography.

I worked with Rob last year, and he was all in to sitting in a circle and getting a feel for the group to enhance our photography, which may sound ridiculous to you now, but wait until you're sitting in that circle.

-ashleycoppolino

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-ashleycoppolino

Let The Commercial Making Begin!

So, this week was really focused on film making. I didn't exactly get in front of or behind the camera lens, but we did storyboard.
Storyboarding a a major part of putting together a film. Even though we're aiming for a thirty-second film, there's a lot to be sorted out. For example, Ilana and I discussed what we were going to say and what we were going to take shots of to put with the audio.
There's pros and cons to storyboarding. One pro is that you don't waste time when you're filming-you know what you're filming, or at least have a base for your film. The con is that you draw out what you imagine, but it doesn't actually look like hwat you want it to.
I don't want to come off by critizing myself, but I know the type of personality I have. I like to do things on my own.. I don't know why I'm this way, but it has its pros and cons too. The hard part about working with a partner is that our decisions don't exactly match up. We both have great comments and visions, they just don't mesh like peanut butter and jelly, if you get my metaphor.
Either way the film goes, it should be a good thirty seconds of a successful commercial.

-ashleycoppolino