Yoga Master Extraordinaire: Benja

My aunt by far is one of the most eccentric people I know. Always the life of the party she is a yoga instructor, the owner of the only Thai Restaurant in Southern Utah (Benja Thai & Sushi in St. George), and much more.

I was assigned to create a documentary illustration and this is what I came up with. I have tons of images that I love but I felt that this particular photograph created a much more informative scene.

Portable Flash with Reflector

My hairstylist friend Sam needed some images of her work to apply to a program, I needed an image for my portrait class. And thus this photograph is the product of such needs.

It was shot at around 4pm using a portable SB Nikon Flash with diffuser. I also used a silver/gold reflector to bounce more light into her face.

Mixing of light: Daylight with on location Flash

I had this idea to use a ton of balloons that seem to overpower the main subject. The shoot turned out to be a lot different than originally anticipated.

Veggie Bouquet

For my Color Class. Saturation vs. Desaturation

In the end I would like to do a series of these type of images.

Low Key: Trevor Myers

Trevor Myers is the guy who won my old roommates Samantha's Heart (the girl in my previous post). Don't worry he doesn't always look like this, I roughed up his look for the photo shoot. Being the first experience shooting low key, this wasn't my most successful photo shoot.

Samantha Myers

My old roommate Sam is a hair stylist and wanted some professional portraits for a website that she was creating. This is one of my favorite shots. Apparently the way she is holding her scissors is the way the pros hold theirs.

I used a 24" beauty light above Sam with a giant soft box behind her. I also boxed her in with white reflectors and a silver reflector below her at waist level.

The Story of the Fish

This was the final image that I turned in for one of my color class assignments. This photograph is supposed to demonstrate the theory of warm verse cool colors.

Although this photo shoot was a lot of fun, the excitement was all after the pictures were taken. I bought 4 common goldfish; three small and on 5" long. I brought the fish home after 7 days the first 2 small fish died. 24 hours later the 3rd small one was gone.

Then 36 hours later the big one started freaking out. It was swimming in circles ramming it's head into the rocks at the bottom of the bowl. Then it started to jump out of the bowl (luckily it was not successful at getting out). 20 minutes later it was floating at the top of the tank. I was in the middle of doing homework so I was waiting to flush the fish. 40 minutes later the supposedly dead fish was swimming again doing the same acrobatic moves as before. 20 minutes later it was floating upside down at the top of the tank. One hour passed and it was alive again, this time swimming upside down. Then it was dead. I felt like I was in a zombie movie. Afraid that the fish would suddenly come back to life as I was flushing it, I decided to postpone its funeral until the following morning.

RIP: One fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue fish