Outside the Boxer - f9.0, 2.4ft, 4/100, z14, Clear
This shot was the result of wanting to capture primary colors in a night scene. The first objects that came to mind for the color blue were the boxing gloves. It was around four hours till the assignment that this picture was being planned for was due, and it was a Sunday night. After going to one of the only retail stores open I asked the cashier in a playful but hopeless tone, "You happen to have boxing gloves?" You can imagine my surprise when she immediately raised her hand, pointed at the wall behind me, and asked, "Like those?" A can of blue spray paint and an hour later and these are the results. Lighting was solely from a sixteen foot LED rope strung with a white, lightweight chain that also doubled as the tying point for the apples and lemons. The fruit that my mother had sewn thread through while I was painting the blunt blue boxing mitts.
Insinuating the Allegation of Choas - f22, 2.5ft, 1/10, z40, Clear
Deciding to take advantage of the first object in my immediate area that were plentiful in number, paintbrushes seemed like something fun to create art with in a ways unusual. Following a new technique learned in my visual composition class I fashioned an 's' shape to guide the eye through the scene. In the middle I placed the tip of the only blue brush. The bottom of the page is home to a large black brush, while the top is balanced with a group of smaller brushes. Ultimately, my goal was to create a picture that seems random but instills the viewer with a sense that somehow the randomness is perfectly in order.
Bambi Contemplates Living - f5.6, infinity, 1/1000, z00, 1/4ND
This picture focuses on the bronze deer a the top of the bridge's guardrail. This is the first picture I've planned in which a railing is used to guide viewer's eyes to the primary subject in the scene.
Columbus on Scioto - f3.5, infinity, 1/1000, 0, 1/4ND
It was a mild, beautiful morning in downtown Columbus on the day this picture was taken. The sun brightens the south walls of the skyscrapers leaving the west faces of the buildings in a relaxed darkened shade.
Cosmic Antenna - f3.5, 43ft, 1/1250, z00, 1/16ND
Outside of the COSI building near downtown Columbus I found this structure. Made up with dozens of turning boxes on metal arms, the display twisted in a smooth, constant and natural motion.
Heart of Persistence - f6.3, 1.4ft, 1/640, z66, 1/4ND
The chunk of wood which is tied to the above necklace came from the core of a solid piece of a sectioned log. After many weeks of battering the stubborn oak with an 8 lb splitting maul I finally broke apart the knotted fibers, all but this core that I keep to remind me to never give up.
With a shallow wall of focus of approximately 3 inches the gnarled grain of the wood comes across in an almost 3D manner thanks to a rim light.
Tetrahedron Tinged Blue - f6.3, 1.5ft, 1/50, z80,1/64ND
A while back I wanted to make a metal tetrahedron to keep around for motivation and provocation of random thought. This hand-sized object was made from straight stainless steel pieces, stainless steel rings, epoxy weld, craft wire, superglue and unwaivering follow-thru. The triangle template was even measured using a device I constructed from string tied to a pencil to create a series of geometrical shapes.
For lighting I tried different colors from an LED rope. Blue was the color that seemed to complement the metal the best. A shallow depth of field was decided on in order to pull the bottom, focused part of the shape in the backround through the blurred foreground corner of the pyramid closer to the lens.
Bridges - f3.5, infinity, 1/2000, z00, Clear
A number of bridges connecting the banks of the Scioto River. With so many lines I couldn't help but attempt to gobble them up in the lens of the FS700.
Tossing Away Money
This minute short was created from the base requirement being that a character must put on a jacket and then throw a coin into a wishing fountain. The result was something a bit more rebellious.
