Sfaye Chan

Always my fav piece!

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!

Lighting Setup:

JRN 420: Fashion Assignment

ISO 100, Shutter Speed 1/250, Aperture 10

Marcus Luke, a CMU senior majoring in Business Law and Economics, had experiences modeling for Abercrombie and Fitch before. I am really glad that I had him as my studio subject. I think it is important to work with an experienced model because he gave me some ideas that I had never thought of.

ISO 125, Shutter Speed 1/250, Aperture 13

Yan Chu is a CMU student from China. We found out that she is more suitable to wear a serious face than a smiling face only on the shooting day itself.

ISO 125, Shutter Speed 1/250, Aperture 10

Jia Liu with a smoky make-up. I hope I can make her pop out from the photo by using a guitar or something else.

Lighting Setup:

for boy

for girls

Fashion Assignment Exercise

Ken and I were in one group to do this lighting exercise.

JRN 420: Location Lighting Assignment

Environmental Portrait

ISO 200, Shutter Speed 1/250, Aperture 10

I have done my environmental portrait in Family Video which located in 317, N. Mission in Mount Pleasant. Kristy Frazier(left) and Kelsey Kingsburg are working as a customer service and both of them are part time workers.

Lighting Setup: I used a main light(with umbrella) put in front of the subject and then a backlight right behind of the subject.

Other

ISO 250, Shutter Speed 1/250, Aperture 9

David Patterson, the store manager of Family Dollar, portrays to me in front of the store in 1719, S. Mission in Mount Pleasant.

Lighting Setup: There was a main light(with umbrella) in the right of my subject and a back light on the left.

Additional photos, people in Mount Pleasant!

ISO 250, Shutter Speed 1/250, Aperture 10

Ivy Chen

ISO 250, Shutter Speed 1/250, Aperture 11

Aastha Bhandari

ISO 250, Shutter Speed 1/250, Aperture 9

Krista and Aaric Fairchild

Location Lighting Practice

ISO 200, Shutter Speed 1/250, Aperture 13

ISO 200, Shutter Speed 1/250, Aperture 10

JRN 420: Portrait Assignment

ISO 100, Shutter Speed 1/250, Aperture 8

ISO 100, Shutter Speed 1/250, Aperture 8

ISO 100, Shutter Speed 1/250, Aperture 8

ISO 100, Shutter Speed 1/250, Aperture 8

ISO 100, Shutter Speed 1/250, Aperture 7.1

Kendo is a traditional sword-fighting of Japan. According to All Japan Kendo Federation in 1975, the concept of Kendo is to discipline human characters through the application of the principles of the Katana (sword). Learning Kendo can enable people to love their country and society more, and to promote peace and prosperity among them.

The portrait of my shooting is Tyler Dunham, a Kendoka as well as a senior from CMU. He has been doing Kendo since January 2007. He has awarded 2nd place in Michigan Family Taikai. On the shooting day, he brought shinai, bogu and hakama to show me how a Kendoka should wear like.

Paparazzi

This is my 3rd assignment of ART 240. The idea of this photo is, I am a paparazzi who records the life of a celebrity. They shop, they party, they degenerate, their life is not as good as what we always see from the newspapers.

Photo Credit

Model: Elena Xu Zhang
Make Artist: Tina Pan
Assistant: XueYan Guan
Photographer: Tze Lin Low

Personal Feeling

My second assignment for ART 240. The model inside the fridge is me. I was trying to use my Macbook in this shot, however I think a pillow is more suitable to deliver my message. What do you get from this photo?