First Attempt at Studio Photography

// February 4th, 2009 // No Comments » // art, canon-50d, creativeday, lighting, photography, photoshop, studio

In the last few months, I started doing photography again. I never really stopped taking pictures but with work taking over my life the last few years, I wasn’t doing anything “creative” that I was proud of. So my main goal for 2009 is to get back to drawing, painting and creative photography… things I enjoy, away from the computer.

So I decided to learn more about all aspects of photography. Like manually controlling how I want my pictures to look in the camera, versus manipulating them in Photoshop. Also seeing how to lighting better and capture interesting subjects. Here is a display of some studio photography that I recently did. I didn’t set up the lighting, but I did learn a lot about shooting in a studio. I used a Canon 50d. Please let me know what you think and if you are on Flickr, please add me as a contact: http://www.flickr.com/people/alexharris/

Creative Day - Fun times, inspiration and more motivation!

// May 23rd, 2008 // 2 Comments » // art, artparty, creativeday, drawing, ftlauderdale, graffiti, hollywood, miami, painting

This past weekend was Creative Day at my house. Really, it was my birthday party, but it was also a way to get together with my friends and have an art party. This is something we did a lot in college (10 years ago - wow) and now my excuse is - I really don’t have a lot of time to work on traditional art projects.

Overall we had a really great day. I attempted to set up a live web stream but it didn’t work out because my wireless wouldn’t reach far enough - sorry to those who were expecting to watch us. Yet, many came out to paint, draw, take pictures, shoot videos or just hang out.

Aside from the party, part of setting this up was important to me for many reasons. 1) It forced me to organize my art supplies so I can set up my art studio 2) Provided instant inspiration to get more involved mixing art with new media 3) I was able to document my talented friends and we encouraged each other to be doing this a lot more.

Have you ever been to an art party?

Let me know, I would hear ideas from other events in your city. There were a lot of photography going on as well. Here are some videos I shot during the day. For the HD versions visit my vimeo page.

Ryan Droze - @droze

Jimmy Allen - @stinkyfatpig