Week Thirty: The ball to my nose ring fell out…Again. It’s kind of annoying to have to keep checking it, but oh well. I’ll buy another ball sometime eventually. Leah thinks I look dead in this picture, but she took it, so that means she killed me.
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Week Twenty Nine: To be honest, I did nothing in regards to my Portrait 52 this week. This is the only photo with me in it. And it’s taken by Leah. Full credit goes to Leah on this one. She saved my ass. Thank you, Leah!
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Week Twenty Eight: It was either put together Leah’s fan or go shoot an assignment for the newspaper. I opted to where the fan on my head and do nothing.
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Week Twenty Seven: Driving. With a seatbelt over my mouth.
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Week Twenty Six: Vibram Five Finger shoes. Pretty much the coolest things ever.
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Week Twenty Five: The Traverse City Film Festival. Long days, good movies. Lack of hygiene, for the most part.
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Week Twenty Four: My take on studio portraits. Also, it leads quite well into next months theme of “Fall Catalog Poses”. Clean white backgrounds, usually clean, simple lighting…but I can’t do that. So I hung up a white sheet outside. Ridiculous, I know. Sitting down, dressed nicely (in my case, I don’t have a suit and tie, so I went with vest and scarf). Natural lighting looks really strange on the sheet, actually. However, the nonchalant stare off frame makes the model look natural and calm, like he has everything figured out, even though in his head, he can’t figure out a single thing.
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Week Twenty Three: This one of two reflection poses. Obviously, since I am a guy, I decided to include “my car” in the shot. Because what kind of guy are you if you don’t shot off your car every chance you get. The look on my face is very serious, but that’s simply because the amount of testosterone flowing through my veins is at such a high rate, that I think smiling makes me into a woman. No, I play sports! And I drink nasty beer! And red meat! RAW! And I make dumb jokes with my friends! And I like fast cars! And hot women! And I like to hit things! And break things! And work out! And work on my car engine! And talk about sports! And know everything about sports! And be a man! Explosions! Sex! Loud noise and heavy music! Stereo systems! And being the best! Gwwwaaaaaarrrrrrrr I AM MAN!!!!! Thanks to Jordan for the camera work. And Mom for the car… :-/
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Week Twenty Two: This is the “leaning against a tree” pose. We’ve all seen it. The arms are crossed because it’s classic. The post processing is so overdone that it pains you to look at it. The cheesy smile on the grad is because they really don’t want to be there. As they bare their teeth, grinning in agony, they’re thinking - “I swear, if this photographer makes me change outfits one last time, I’m going to take their camera and smash their skull in with it. I don’t want to be here. I would rather be doing something stupid with friends that I’m not even going to keep in touch with as soon as I head off to college.” - Alternatively they could be saying “I’M GOING TO COMMUNITY COLLEGE! WHO CARES!” All while hoping that people don’t think that their outfit reflects their style and personality.
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Week Twenty One: July is senior picture month! This is the “shot by a friend” picture, or the “I’m too cheap to get a professional to take my picture, or I feel like I owe it to my friend to at least let them try and take my picture, hoping to all the gods in the sky that they have some semblance of an idea as to how…” Thanks to Leah for the camera work, who in fact does have more than a semblance of an idea.
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