People Photography - Assignment 1

This is from my first assignment for the People Photography course at RIT. The assignment was to shoot a single person on a plain background using props and showing motion.


Model: Nina Lutz
Hair, Makeup, Styling: Casey Lo
1st Assistant: Sammy Castillo
2nd Assistant: Tim Morris
Levasseur Photography

Fashion - Model Test

For this assignment we had to do a basic model test shoot with a male and female subject.

Fashion - Long Lens

This assignment required we shoot with a 400mm or greater focal length lens. These were shot with a Canon 1Ds Mark III and 500mm lens. I had a little trouble with this one because it was on location and just as we were ready to shoot...it rained. We went ahead with it anyway and the pictures actually turned out better then expected.

Fashion - Futuristic

For this assignment we were given free reign over our assignment. The only guideline was it had to be futuristic. How we interpreted that was up to us.

Concept - I wanted to come up with a way to show how high fashion is held in such high regard. What I tried to do here was glorify high fashion and make it look like even if the world were to end and everything were to go to hell, fashion would still be there looking pretty and unfazed.

Time Involved: ~30 hours (scouting, prepping, shooting, retouching, compositing, etc.)

Model - Kathryn LaGioia

Assistant - Ira Morris

Stylist - Casey Lo

Makeup - Shoranda Iyez

Fashion - Genre

For this assignment we were told to choose a genre and shoot something similar.

I chose body builders/fitness.