Yup, it’s baaack!!! The blog lives again with a shiny new purpose: following my adventures in the grand city of New York. For those new to the game I moved to New York at the end of August to start college at the Fashion Institute of Technology to study what else but photography! I’m living on campus in the apartment-style dorms (it’s essentially a two-bedroom apartment with a full kitchen and bathroom shared by four people) which has it’s pluses and minus. It’s great being so near my classes and being able to cook for myself is wonderful (I’ve been in the cafeteria twice since semester started ^-^’) but hey, shared living is always interesting, right?
My schedule mostly intro classes this semester (intro to photography, intro to digital photography, intro to styling, etc.) and so far most of what we’ve covered has been review. My photo 1 class is a black and white film class and it feels great to be back in the darkroom again after almost three years. I still remember how everything works; thanks Mr. Blessing! We’ve done a couple assignments so far, including the 1-minute and 1-hour rolls, where we had to shoot a roll of film in one minute and one hour respectively. The 1-minute roll was hard because well, it’s a just under a frame every 2 seconds! I think too much to shoot that fast! So my roll ended up taking me about 3 minutes to shoot ^-^’ The 1-hour roll was a little easier; we had to return to the same place we shot the previous roll (mine was a subway station. Hey, I’m in New York, why not?) and do it again. More time to think about things was nice and I actually ended up finishing too early. Apparently I’m good at following directions…
However my favorite class so far is styling. I love doing the styling (hair, make-up, wardrobe, set, etc) for my own shoots and am really looking forward to learning more techniques. Our first project was to create a mock advertisement for SmartWater. I was stumped for ideas; water bottles aren’t usually my first choice to shoot. However one of the girls in my group had the fabulous idea to run with SmartWater’s new Breast Cancer Awareness campaign and run we did. After some issues finding a model to work with (apparently it’s difficult to get someone who will pose topless for a group of students at 1:00 on a Monday afternoon) we ended up shooting one of the members of our group; the ever-lovely Maddie.
I don’t think we could have found a better model:
More to come later, just found out that our RA baked a cake for the floor and I’ve learned that you never turn down Corey’s baked goods (they’re amazing). Cheers!