So, Here's what's up.

The reason I haven't been updating as often with new pictures is cause I don't have ideas for shoots. 

D;

I have models and locations, just not the ideas I need to perform the shoots! As you know, my theme is fantasy/fashion with an eerie feel. It's difficult to actually find outfits for my models for the shoots I possibly have in mind. 

My possible ides are: 

• Rapunzel
• Cinderella
• The little mermaid
• The emperor's new clothes

These are the main ideas I want to shoot. It'd be so much easier to do if I had a camera at home, but I don't so that is also why I don't have any new material.

 

Thank you for being patient and reading this. I'll try my hardest to figure out a way to update soon!

 

Alice in DarkWoodsWonderland

 

 "Where Is that Pesky White Rabbit?"

 

Lost in DarkWoodsWonderland

 

Becoming apart of  the Nightmare

-----

My theme for these images was showing the more darker and twisted side of Alice in Wonderland with the help of model Angie and my assistant Brianda. I used Angie because she isn't the typical image you think of when you think of Alica in wonderland. Which is why i asked her for this particular shoot. I didn't want to portray the commercialized version of Alice in my photos. In each of the pictures I used, I tried not to get her directly in the center, though in the top one she technically is, but to me it works. In each of the images I used scratch and crack brushes to add more to the 'Darkness' i was trying to portray in this shoot.  In the top and bottom images, I added cracking to my model's face to kind of give it that greater feel of weakness and frailtivity to my 'Alice'. With all of the images, I saturated the images and contrasted them till I got the look I sort of liked and then I changed the color levels to all of them. The first two I added more yellw to the image and the last one I took away some red and blue from the image. The top image I added a white rabbit (still going with the Alice in wonderland theme) to try to get the viewers mind going and to try and find the rabbit as the title suggests to do ("Where is that Pesky White Rabbit?").  The last image has the chainlink fence in it to get of a more urban feel to the image, again to destroy the commercialized 

The lighting at the time when I took these images couldn't have been more perfect if I wanted to be. It was bright out with barely any clouds out. With the bottom image (which I actually took before the others), I had my assistant Brianda use a gold cad to shine a reflection onto my model to capture her face better in the shaded area. I think I could have done that with the top image too (which I took after the other two) to capture the top part of her face that was shadowed by her hair. All my angles in these images are pretty strait forward. I just had my camera either horizontal or vertical and shot.  But I decided to go with a horizontal angle with the top image to get more of the image to get a feel of searching. 

These images I think are the best I have taken yet. 

<3 Darri

LIttle Bo Peep

The Cake Is Not A Lie

The central idea behind this piece is to show the happiness that simply things, like cake can express. In this image you see my model Brianda eating the cake I prepared the night before. I tried to get her as relaxed as possible to get the feeling of ease and joy that cake can bring someone. I used a soft strobe light and a white background to get the feeling of softness and simplicity. To get the angle I got, I sat on the ground beside the strobe to try and get all of her in the shot while getting the discarded cake lid on the floor in the shot as well. When I took this image home, I eddited it by softening the image and giving a blue tint to everything, except my model, the cake and the lid and  playing witht he saturation a little bit. 

This image goes directly with my new idea on the concept of showing the simple things that make people happy that people don't really pay attention to. This concept has completely changed from my original idea of fashion photography with a fantasy twist on it. Now I'm trying to focus on Portraits and the simple things. In creating this image, I tried to stick with my idea, but I found it difficult to get it so my model looked relaxed and actually in the moment happy. But I'm ready to take this challenge. From here I am going to continue on with this concept but my next ideas are : Bubble/Bubble blowing and Cloud watching. What I'm going to try to do with those inmages is get more color into them a bit, but keeping it not that photoshopped.

The image below is another image from the same shoot, but with more play with saturation and greying the image. The ony thing I didn't satrate or grey at all was the cake to get more of an emphasis on it.

Portfolio Proposal + Test Shot For Portfolio

Summary of Request:

Proposed by:Darrian Adine Major(-Walker)

Project Title: What the Eye Denies

Class: Period 1 Photography 3

Instructor: Ms. Miles

Project Due Date: January 31, 2011

Project Description

Type of Work: Fashion

Concept

 My concept will be revolving around fantasy and fashion combined. Why Fantasy? Because fantasy in the world is becoming more and unnoticed due to people pushing it away for technology or the fact many don't want to feel foolish in being the one who's always daydreaming and being different. Why Fashion? Because people in society are naturally drawn to beauty. And when most people think of beauty, they think of fashion. It adds on to my love of fashion photography. So I decided to combine the two to demonstrate this disappearance of an important thing people need. I will be using many different kinds of people, mostly those in a smaller and more frail stature to give the sense of innocence to the image, while still demonstrating that Fantasy feeling to it. I will be using other people of different statures  to show that anyone can have an imagination.

Vision

When I complete this portfolio, I want people to see what Is becoming of the world now and how today's youth are losing their right to imagine and fantasize. Adults today in the corperate world are trying to shove the fact that life is hard on young children, and then they grow up, also like an empty shell that mirrors what society wants them to be like. I grew up surrounded by storybooks about fairies and dragons and the liking and my minds always a buzz with new ideas. Having an imagination as a child helps with keeping that buzz of ideas as an Teen or even adult. That's what I want people to realize.

Inspiration

All my inspirations are from stories and storybooks and my own wild and crazy imagination. Fantasy is my favorite topic when it comes to reading. It gets my mind on such a rush. I want others to experience the same feeling. I want others to feel the power and warth Fantasy brings to one's heart.

Equipment to be Used

I am not sure Yet of what kind of cameras, but definitely Cameras, possibly strobe and hot lamps.

Presentation

Unknown

--------

Test Shot

 

Model: Christina Cervantes

Taken By: Myself

Theme: Dieing Princess

Title: "The Fallen"

A New Year....

Welcome to the 2010-2011 Year of Darri's (aka My) Blog~

-^w^-

Above picture was taken by Christina Cervantes on 9-10-10.

Edited by Me.

A Moment Alone

"A Moment Alone"

Model: Christina Cervantez

Taken By : Me