Posts by sseitz

My process for creating my HDR photo was: Take 3 different exposures, merge together with Photoshop, roughly edit in Photoshop, export and re-import into Lightroom, edit in Lightroom using masks and split toning.
If you look at the other HDR photos I’ve included in this post, they all have a similar tone. I liked playing around with images that have slight movement, which was easy to capture with fidgety kittens as my subject. 

Story Proposal: Abandonment.

Canon Rebel T3i

My Roommate is recently going through some major life changes which are requiring him to be out of town for an extended period of time. This is a story of a man who is going through radical change, the un-willful abandonment of one life for another.

I edited these photos in Lightroom to be grainy and faded (a bit gray) on purpose. I think it reflects the mood of uncertainty and dismay.

This was just me trying to play around with the shutter speed on my camera. I used a Canon T3i Rebel, I think my slowest shutter speed was around 1/8 and my fastest was 1/60. I tried to find a lighter to use as a prop as well, but somehow all the ones in my apartment have disappeared!

These were pictures taken from my Spring Break trip to Savannah. I had to take them on my Google Pixel 2 because I didn’t have time to check out a camera from the IMRC.

I had every intention of photographing strangers faces, but something happened that got me thinking.
My boyfriend had a study group over, so I asked if I could photograph them and 3 out of 4 said no. I wanted the photos, so to make them more comfortable while still getting my pictures I instead asked if they minded if I took pictures of their shoes instead.
I think that shoes can tell a lot about a person.
Are they clean? Have they traveled far? Do they look for comfort or style? Are they new or old?
A shoe tells not where you’re going, but where you’ve been.
I know this was a bit of an abstract approach to the assignment, but I thought it was interesting.