Additional Photos: Fashion

ISO 100, Shutter Speed 1/125, Aperture 11

WenWen Zhang, a CMU junior from China, shows off her favorite skinny pant in the photo studio. Skinny pant is very popular among teenagers nowadays. It can make you look very fashionable and make your legs look slimmer than before.

ISO 100, Shutter Speed 1/125, Aperture 11

Chinese junior, Yan Chu, wears one of her favorite black sweaters that she bought when she was back at home. Black color can easily work well with bright colors, but it also works well with dark colors if you match it carefully. Chu did a really good job by matching it with a dress inside.

Lighting Setup

JRN 420: Photo Illustration

ISO 200, Shutter Speed 1/200, Aperture 18

ISO 200, Shutter Speed 1/200, Aperture 18

It's Light!

Diet Coke is also known as Coke Light. It is one of the soft drink productions by The Coca-Cola Company and has been launched into the United States in August, 1982. It is made with artificial sweetener, does not contain carbohydrates and thus is suitable for people on diet or diabetics.

For this photos, I put a main light with a big soft box on the right and a fill light on the left. Then, I set the self timer to 10 seconds so that I had enough time to run back to the position from the camera. Instead of manipulating an image, I chose to create my photo. This is because I am not good in photoshop. There is nothing worse than taking risk on creating a photo which doesn't look real to me or any other viewers. I am quite satisfied with the 'floating' effect here, and I think my face expression helps too!

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JRN 420: Studio Shooting Group I

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JRN 420: Still Life

Smoke

ISO 100, Shutter Speed 1/200, Aperture 14

ISO 100, Shutter Speed 1/200, Aperture 14

ISO 100, Shutter Speed 1/160, Aperture 14

Smoke is very mysterious that you can hardly catch it or keep it although you can see it very often. It is concrete yet very abstract and its existence always gets neglected.

For this smoke series, I used a table light on the left and a strobe on the right. I used a table light because it allowed me to see the smoke in a completely dark situation. In my experiment on this shooting, the hardest part for me was to create the shape of the smoke that I wanted. Therefore, all I could do was to burn a paper stick and blew it slowly to make the smoke diffuse into a wider area. I also used a color gel to change the color of the smoke.

Water Drop

ISO 100, Shutter Speed 1/200, Aperture 18

ISO 100, Shutter Speed 1/200, Aperture 18

ISO 100, Shutter Speed 1/200, Aperture 18

Water has its own unique temper. It can be very calm yet gets excited with even a very tiny disturbance. You can’t stop it from waving when you try hard but it stops by itself when you put it aside.

Similar to the smoke series, I put a table light on the left and strobe on the right. I used a reflector clamp to hold a cup right on the top of my bowl. Water should be added little by little so that it did not come out too fast. The strobe did not point directly to the bowl but pointed to a piece of white paper that I used as the background. By using a color gel on the strobe, I made the water in a different color.

Cigarettes and Lighters

ISO 100, Shutter Speed 1/250, Aperture 20

ISO 100, Shutter Speed 1/250, Aperture 20

Lighters and cigarettes are a perfect match. They complement the existence of each other. Some people get addicted and can’t stop smoking even though they are aware and understand that smoking is harmful.

Other than creating the smoke and the water drops, I tried some photographs of solid subjects. During the period of World Cup 2010 in South Africa, a lighter of the England team was given out for every purchase of a certain amount of Carlsberg beer. I am very proud to own these lighters. So, lighters and cigarettes are really a good match to make a photograph.

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JRN 420: Caregiver Photo Story

Cohen Adams, 6, lives in Mount Pleasant. Doctor from Ann Arbor Hospital diagnosed his illness as stage four Neuroblastoma when he was only 3 years old. Neuroblastoma is the most common extracranial cancer existing in childhood. Only 40% of the children can survive this illness. During the process of chemotherapy in his early age, Cohen has lost his ability of hearing and needs a hearing aid to help him on listening.

The scars on Cohen's body can tell that the six years old kid has gone through many surgeries and treatments because of cancer.

Cohen's mom, Angie, will give birth to her third kid on next March. They sit together and talk about those days when Cohen was given treatments in Ann Arbor hospital. Angie says Cohen has a better memory than her because he still can remember the most happy moments of those days. She is also glad that he does not remember the unhappy and painful parts when he was undergoing the chemotherapy.

Angie shows the photos when Cohen was receiving the chemotherapy in Ann Arbor hospital to her kids. Angie and her husband, Jeff, felt helpless and hopeless when Cohen was diagnosed with neuroblastoma. All they could do was to pray hard everyday.

Cohen holds his little angel. The little angel has been accompanied him since he started receiving treatment in Ann Arbor. He still keeps it with him because it is like a guardian to him.

Cohen, Camryn and Angie play together in the backyard of their house on Nov 2, Tuesday. This is the kids' favorite area because they can have so much fun time here.

Cohen Adams hide behind the door before he get ready to go out to the backyard with his mother and sister on Nov 2, Tuesday.