Photo Dump

Thanks to everyone that has come out to see Photoworks at UTD! I hope you enjoyed our work in print form, up close and personal. I have been lacking up the updates so here is a photo dump:



Model: Ivy
Comments: I have worked with two small kids so far and have realized that it's fairly difficult to get them to pay attention! At least she pays attention to the bubbles. :) Pictures of baby's are almost always cute so that's why Ms. Waligore does not wanting you turning in pictures of babies, haha. This was done with natural light using Aperature priority mode. More of this set here.

Model: Johnny Chau
Edited by: Lan Nguyen
Comments: My photo was edited by Johnny's girlfriend, Lan. It's always good to know people with skills that can make your work better. The sun was so bright so this was difficult to shoot. I used two strobes at their highest power. More from this set here.


Model: Johnaton Nguyen
Comments: A shot at attempting to take photos at night with strobes. I only used two strobes. My 430ex is inside the hamster ball wrapped in paper at full power and I had a strobe to the left of the bowling pins at 1/32? I forget. It was pretty difficult, because my camera had a hard time focusing with little light. I tried to use a flash light as a modeling light but it wasn't bright enough. Lesson learned. :( More from this set here.


Model: Mimi Le
Makeup: Helsa Kim
Comments: I desaturated the colors a bit. This is an outtake from a fashion photo shoot I did at my housing using the dynalite kits from school. The background is a piece of wrapping paper I bought from Paper Source at North Park Mall. They have beautiful decorative paper that can be used for backgrounds. Too bad the paper is too small (as you can tell from the space between her arms and body). People even use shower curtains for backdrops! I'm not allowed to put the fashion photo pics up as of right now so I'll show them later.


Model: Crystal Chang
Comments: Fun with the graffiti backgrounds in denton, tx. Too bad the city of Dallas has cleaned up most of the graffiti in Deep Ellum. More can be seen here.


Model: Thai monks from the buddhist center in dallas
Comments: This is one of my photos from the photoworks exhibit. More can be seen here.


Model: Spencer Hight
Comments: Using one of the exhibits in the art barn as a prop. More from this set here.


Model: Mark Lauman
Comments: Many of you that have taken a photography course at UTD may know where this is. This was taken at the Rachofsky house w/ reflection from Don Graham's Argonne Pavillion II, 1998. Strobist: camera right in front of model, Canon 430ex at 1:1 Power w/ Lumiquest sotbox III. Camera right behind model, Canon 430ex at 1:1 Power bare


Model: Sikha Naik
Comments: Sometimes black and white looks better. More from this set here.

The scenic walkway between Founders building and the campus area map, one of my favorite environment backdrops on campus, got obliterated.