New Photo: Additional Portrait
Single Parent, Joy Kinney, with her fifteen year old son, Jason Kinney. Being a parent is never easy. Parenting solo, will strengthen your character or break you. Joy and Jason have survived some very hard trials, some failures and some successes, but everyday has its new challenges especially when Joy has to be both mom and dad to a teenage boy.
Statistics show that eighty-four percent of children of single parents live with their mothers. More than half of the single parents in the United States are raising an only child.
Camera: Pentax K10D
ISO 100
Aperture: f11
Shutter speed: 1/180
Focal length: 45 mm
Photo Illustration 1
Falling out of Love
Fifty percent of marriages end in Divorce. Thirty five percent of people having experence a serious break up in the last 10 years. Yahoo Personals polling showed that fifty percent of individuals reassess their relationships between Christmas and Valentines Day. They term this the "Breakup Season".
This photo was created in a series of steps. The first step was to photograph the young man in a motion of falling. There was a softboxed strobe to each side of him and a flash strobe shooting through an umbrella under each of these to get enough light on his legs. Behind the curtain behind him is another strobe light creating a rim around him. Second step make a "breakable heart". This was made from frozen Ice in aluminum foil shaped like a heart and melting the edges with hot water to smooth it out. Next, photograph the heart, and the Photograph the heart as it hits and breaks. The lighting for this is a much closer version of the light use for the young man with the power down a little. Finally, Assemble in Photoshop. The bottom layer is the unbroken heart with a copy of that layer above it with a color burn applied. The third layer is the broken heart with a pin light applied. The next two layers above that are the same image of the falling young man with different amounts of drop shadow effects. To top off the layers I used a curve to adjust the lighting and contrast.
This is the light set up for the heart and broken heart.
Photo Illustration 2
Precarious We Stand
The governments answer to stimulating the economy is to make more money and purchase more bonds. Hopefully this will driving down interest rates, stimulate borrowing, and encourage spending which should create more jobs. Thirty five percent of all bonds purchase last year were purchased by foreign countries. Their economies rely on our economy's stability and ability to repay these bonds.
The lighting for this was two strobe soft boxes with the covers off aimed at a soft box with the subject in it. An additional strobe light is behind the soft box and the white curtain. One more strobe is in front to the left with a diffuser over it. It is being used to light the foreground. Photoshop was used to adjust the contrast and for cropping. Photoshop was also use to remove personal information from the bond. The foreign currency was printed on paper to be used as a prop. The size is disproportionate to the real money to make the bond and the dollar appear bigger.
Camera: Pentax K10D
ISO 100
Aperture: f38
Focal length: 55 mm
Shutter speed: 1/180
The Almighty Dollar
The All Mighty Dollar
Selling Off the United States One Bond at a Time
Paint with Light Revisited
Location light Revisited
The goal was to improve the rim light.
Paint with Light Revisited
Location light Revisited
The goal was to improve the rim light.
