Here are the Original Magazine Images and the Image Replications I made and took the shots of from the magazine Ad’s which were actually both from “Vogue.” I had a great time shooting this project. This was by far my favorite project to do this quarter, which I’m sure many would also agree with that said =P. Thank You Eli Borrowman for a great Digital Photography Class =D

~Sean Deane

Thanksgiving Theme Photographs

1) (ISO)-100 (SS)-1/60 sec. (A)-2.8

2) (ISO)-100 (SS)-1/50 sec. (A)-2.8

3) (ISO)-100 (SS)-1/20 sec. (A)-2.8

4) (ISO)-100 (SS)-1/15 sec. (A)-2.8

5) (ISO)-100 (SS)-1/15 sec. (A)-2.8

6) (ISO)-100 (SS)-1/20 sec. (A)-2.8

7) (ISO)-100 (SS)-1/13 sec. (A)-2.8

For the Thanksgiving Theme, it was hard for me to do because I do not celebrate Thanksgiving as a holiday, so I chose to do something a little bit different. I took different photographs at my friends house who had a bunch of ingredients/condiments left out from making his Thanksgiving dinner the night before. So, I took a bunch of photographs of the stuff he used in making his Thanksgiving dinner. Well, some of his ingredients anyhow. I also took arbitrary photographs because I was not sure what I was supposed to take photos of. They are in some way/shape or form related, and convey a theme of Thanksgiving year spirit, even though I did not specifically take photographs of Thanksgiving dinner.

~Sean Deane

Reflective Objects Taken At School Studio

1) (ISO)-200 (SS)-1/100 sec. (A)-5.6

2) (ISO)-200 (SS)-1/100 sec. (A)-5.6

3) (ISO)-200 (SS)-1/50 sec. (A)-5.6

4) (ISO)-400 (SS)-1/80 sec. (A)-5.6

5) (ISO)-200 (SS)-1/30 sec. (A)-5.6

Even though we were rushed in the studio for taking photographs of our reflective objects for our group, I still managed to get a few nice photographs out of it. Since we each only had 5 minutes, it was limited, but it did not stop me from taking nice quality photographs, just less of them because of the time issue, other than that, I actually love working in the studio for photography class, and taking photographs there. Wouldn’t mind going there more often now to do some more stuff in photography once I am out of this class even. =)

~Sean Deane

Reflective Objects + Surfaces Taken At Home

1) (ISO)-800 (SS)-1/15 sec. (A)-5.6

2) (ISO)-800 (SS)-1/40 sec. (A)-5.6

3) (ISO)-800 (SS)-1/10 sec. (A)-5.6

4) (ISO)-800 (SS)-1/30 sec. (A)-4.2

5) (ISO)-800 (SS)-1/30 sec. (A)-5.3

6) (ISO)-800 (SS)-1/30 sec. (A)-5.6

7) (ISO)-800 (SS)-1/13 sec. (A)-5.6

8) (ISO)-800 (SS)-1/20 sec. (A)-5.6

9) (ISO)-800 (SS)-1/15 sec. (A)-5.6

10) (ISO)-800 (SS)-1/15 sec. (A)-5.6

I had a fun time shooting these photographs in my house and outside of my house. There were much more objects and surfaces with reflections than I thought there would have been. For instance, I thought things that are reflective would be hard to find, but there were many of objects and surfaces I found to work with outside and inside of my household for a few hours taking photographs. Overall, I had a great time with this assignment and the time flew by with the camera in my hands.

~Sean Deane

        The other artist that I look up to even more strongly and have more respect for is M.C. Escher. He is the absolute genius in mathematics and is the ultimate master of illusions of the human eye. He id a Dutch graphic artist who did a lot of pencil drawings that came out crazy awesome. He is a man who will never be forgotten, and almost anyone you ask if they know who M.C. Escher is, they more than likely will know who the artist is because of his name of fame in complete honesty. So, I absolutely love his artwork as well. I have a bunch of his poster’s in my room. I want to buy an original piece of art of his somewhere that I know I can get that is not a fake or along those lines anyhow…

~Sean Deane

        I absolutely love Salvador Dali’s surreal artwork in general. I love everything he did and he was just so creative and bizarre in a good way with everything he did in his time. He is one of few artist’s that I actually look up too as a mentor. Absolute genius from his time. I feel that everyone back in his time was smarter and not only more intellectual, but actually more creative and talented in a way because if you actually think about it they did not have as much technology that we have in current time, so they had more time to ponder there imaginations longer than the average human nowadays, but that could just be my opinion….

~Sean Deane

“Cody Modeling for Our Portrait Lighting Assignment”

“Broad Portrait Lighting”- (ISO)-100 (SS)-1/8 sec. (A)-5.6

“Short Portrait Lighting”- (ISO)-100 (SS)-1/2 sec. (A)-5.6

        I had a fun time working with our group in the schools “green screen room” shooting with the camera at the model, who was Cody, which we appreciated greatly by the way Cody. I actually enjoy putting lights in various positions and creating aesthetically pleasing environments with the lights that we had in our possession. The more I seem to play around with the camera the more I seem to be getting addicted to it, and I am having so much fun with it, now I want a Nikon D80/D90 for Christmas because of this class so far. The photographs seemed to have come out nice altogether in my opinion anyways, I captured the light in the right direction from where his face is turned and the light is facing towards for both pictures objectives.

~Sean Deane

Dave and (Teddy Bear) Lighting Photography Assignment:

1) “Broad Portrait Lighting”- (ISO)-800 (SS)-1/320 sec. (A)-3.5

2) “Short Portrait Lighting”- (ISO)-1250 (SS)-1/50 sec. (A)-3.5

3) “Rembrandt Portrait Lighting”- (ISO)-1000 (SS)-1/30 sec. (A)-3.5

4) “Split Portrait Lighting”- (ISO)-1600 (SS)-1/100 sec. (A)-4.5

5) “Butterfly Portrait Lighting”- (ISO)-1600 (SS)-1/80 sec. (A)-5.6

6) “Hard Light-Teddy Bear”- (ISO)-800 (SS)-1/15 sec. (A)-4.2

7) “Soft Light-Teddy Bear”- (ISO)-800 (SS)-1/40 sec. (A)-4.5

         I had a really great time taking these photographs of my partner Dave and the teddy bear. The best part was being able to adjust the lights wherever you wanted to place them. For example, above the object/subject, behind the object/subject, to the side of the object/subject and underneath the object/subject or whatever kind of subject matter your using in your photograph. I have a floor lamp that has three lights at different heights coming out of one lamp, which I had some photographs taken with that technique of lighting. I then turned off one or two of the three lights on the lamp to create stronger and harder and softer shadows etc. Then I had another three lights above the object/subject, which is where and how I got the “Soft Light” effect with the teddy bear. Anyways, I had a good time altogether with it all. I did not think I would have had as good of a time as I actually ended up having with just taking photographs of shadows on someone’s face and cast shadows off of subjects/objects and face shadows altogether, so I was happy with my results in the end. =)

~Sean Deane

This is the “Halloween Theme”-Project#5

1.)”Blur Effect”- (ISO)-100 (SS)-1/2 sec. (A)-29

2.)”My Choice”- (ISO)-400 (SS)-1/100 sec. (A)-4.5

3.)”Outside-Daylight”- (ISO)-200 (SS)-1/320 sec. (A)-11

4.)”Simulated Light”- (ISO)-3200 (SS)-1/25 sec. (A)-3.5

5.)”Outside-Night”- (ISO)-3200 (SS)-4.8 sec. (A)-4.5

I had a fun time with the “Halloween Theme Spirit Weekend Assignment”. This was probably my favorite assignment yet. Just because trying to find ways or making normal photographs look eerie/disturbing/scary is a hard objective to accomplish, and the harder that an assignment or anything in life is to do, usually means they are more fun when you actually start to succeed at accomplishing that specific goal, whatever it may be. In this instance, it was taking regular photographs and making them look eerie in some way, shape or form. This is why I enjoyed this assignment the most so far. I also, just got these pictures up here now because my internet has been down and has been messing up all weekend long. I had Comcast Cable Company come to my place and they tried fixing the internet and then said it should be working. So now it’s finally working. So, now is when I finally got the chance to put these photographs up. I sincerely apologize for the delay.

~Sean Deane

Thank You for the kind words my friend. Yeah, it took me awhile to do this illustration actually. This is because I did not know how to work Illustrator yet at the time this was done, so therefore I did it all on Photoshop CS2 with a regular mouse, not even a pen tablet. That is why it came out a little shaky/jagged on his cloak and some other places. For instance, his hooves were also a bit shaky/jagged, but the more you zoom-in on anything your drawing in Photoshop or Illustrator the easier it is regardless. It is going to take a very long time, (“yes”), but the results will most definitely (show) and be worth it in the end result. Hey, thanks for the compliment’s though Josh, I really appreciate that message from you. It tend’s to give me more inspiration with the more input and responses I get from others, so thank you so very much my man.

~Sean Deane

This was the Costume Cow project we had ,which was an optional project we could complete if we wanted too. It was an assignment last quarter or two quarters ago from a clothing company called Costume Cow. They offered money and recogniton if you won the logo contest, etc. So this was my project. I guess I didn’t win LOL. Anybody care to critique feel free please, that is why I put it up, what can be done to make it feel richer/deeper/more intense/more eye consuming etc. Also, just to let you guys know, I only used Adobe Photoshop for this project and used a mouse for everything (NO PEN TABLET) Let me know my peeps,

Thanks,

~Sean Deane

All three pictures are of my two sister’s and I. I am the youngest out of the litter. My middle sister (Victoria) is the one with no facial piercings. Making the oldest (Rachel) with the lip piercing and nose piercing (which I did BTW). Just showing a bit of my family, and why not?? =)

~Sean Deane

Jesus, I enjoyed looking through your photographs that you have taken so far. Your work is very strong and appealing when you work on doing something to the best of your ability it seems. I can see your unique and crazy talent just by staring at that portrait you drew of your favorite music artist. That drawing is amazing man, I am telling you that you definitely have awesome talent and you should be here for a Fine Arts Degree, not a Bachelors Degree in Graphic Design! LOL no, but really you have a gift and are definitely capable of drawing amazing art man, so keep that in mind.

When viewing through your “Motion and Stand Still” photographs, I really found that the strongest photograph was the “Blurry Motion” photograph because of the way the girl is swinging with the motion blur and her opacity is lowered as if you can see right through her while she is swinging. At first I did not even see the girl on the swing, and that is why I love that photo so much. It is very unique in my opinion man. Also, playing with the color and having the playground in the background with a light source touching at the top of the photograph makes the photograph overall even stronger. So keep up your good work with your creativity. The second photograph I liked the most in the “Motion and Stand Still” photographs is the “Panning” photograph. I like this photo a lot as well because you got the one car in front shot perfectly at a standstill, while the second car behind it is blurring in with the background, which is very intriguing to me. Also, these photographs are the hardest one’s to take in my opinion as well, so great job on these photographs in this specific project.

I 100% concur with what you said about your artist that you picked to research about. The picture you chose to do from Diane Arbus is very eye leading from one person to the next person. It starts off from the left then goes all the way to the right person. The technique used is definitely leading in this specific photograph. Great job choosing that awesome photograph by Diane Arbus.

In your “Rule of Thirds” project, I enjoyed viewing the guitar the most and the metal wiring design thing the most. I believe the “Rule of Thirds” would work the best with the guitar, but that does not mean that the metal wiring is any less significant. This is because with the 4 points your eyes go to when making the 9 squares in the “Rule of Thirds,” the metal wiring will definitely catch your eyes in the most important and eye popping places, which drive your eyes right to those 4 strong points in the metal wiring.

The fruit you chose for the “Depth of Field” project was a pomegranate by the way LOL. The photographs all came out great man. The one that stands out the most is the close-up magnified picture of the top of the pomegranate. It really is eye appealing and strong throughout the whole picture, even though it is somewhat centered in the composition.

The “Self Portrait” photographs you took look great as well my man. I am being completely honest as well. For not ever picking up a camera before in your life, you got some damn good photographs Jesus. My favorite technique that you did in the self portraits was the definition that you tend to show in your arms and chest. It makes the photographs look that much richer, especially when using black and white pictures.

The only few things to criticize you on is to make sure you label all of your photographs with the ISO, SS and the Aperture. Also, try to talk about the project you do a little bit, and say what you enjoyed about it etc. One last thing to consider is to make sure to also label your albums with the projects name. Overall, you did a great job Jesus, keep up the awesome techniques you are using in your photography and do not ever give up no matter what someone says to you. I do not care what anyone says Jesus. I am telling you that you have a special gift that most people would strive for having, so do not waste away the time, make crazy, unique artwork for the rest of your life!

~Sean Deane

I love Elliot Smith, and I can relate a lot to many of his songs and just his life story in general. He is a very smart and intelligent man who died of a heroin overdose. He was a very very talented guy. He creates beautiful music as a singer and plays the guitar. It seems like all of the most creative and unique people die earlier on in time. For example, Elliot Smith, Kurt Cobain, Brad Nowell from Sublime. Phew!!! I can go on for awhile….it is very very sad…. =(

~Sean Deane