Assignment 2-Lighting "Hand Puppets"

CAPTION:
On his first trip to Mt. Pleasant, Mich., Zac Nichol of Chicago, Illinois visits his girlfriend at her apartment complex, Colony West Apartments on Edgewood Dr. on Sunday, February 14, 2010. While sitting outside her apartmen, Nichol makes a hand puppet bird.

For this photo, I wanted to make this portrait as dusk to get the colorful sky in the background because our living room faces toward the west. So I tried to shoot at 6:00 pm, however, the light wasn't strong enough to make the shadow, come through the shades and make the silhouette. So I had to I had to but a backlight on him to make this possible. Zac Nichol wanted to make his photography him, but not really be able to really see him. So we made the shadow and used the slatted shades as a way to distort his figure. Photo Stats:F-Stop:3.5, Shutter Speed:1.3, ISO: 100

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“Hand Puppets”


“Hand Puppets”

Zach Nichol, of Chicago, Illinois is a computer technician who describes
himself as a “fun kinda guy to be around.” He came to Mt. Pleasant on Friday, February 13, 2010 to visit his girlfriend of two months Whitney Dziurka.
Nichol’s first time in Mt. Pleasant included a few first for him, as an introduction to Mt. Pleasant, Nichol was introduced to all of Dziurka’s roommates, who include Dessie Tzankova, Jenny Jordan, and myself.
As a unspoken rule of our apartment, if you come in, you are subject to
becoming either a model for Dziurka’s art projects because she is an art major with a printmaking concentration or you are a subject for one of my photojournalism projects.
As it turns out, Nichol turned into the subject for my lighting assignment. When I asked Nichol what kind of portrait he wanted, he suggested something that would show him but not really show him. So my first inclination was to make a
shadowed silhouette.
While creating this portrait I asked him to just be himself and he began making shadow puppets. He tried a few animals and then decided on making a flying bird. In the short session, he said he had fun and never expected to be a photography subject while on his first trip to Mt. Pleasant.