Finally have a website!

I have spent the last couple of weeks building my own website off and on. I Just finished today, I'm super stoked about it!

Check it out!!

http://usherwoodphoto.com/

More Climbing Photography!

The other day I went to the climbing gym with my buddy Josh to take some pictures of him for a magazine cover assignment. The point of the assignment was to pick a magazine and make a cover shot for it. I chose Gripped magazine because it's my favorite magazine and I love to climb. As I said before, taking climbing pictures is not an easy task. It's extremely hard to get a good angle for a shot since all the walls are inclined. I also forget to bring my flash so I had to use a very high ISO. There's a fair bit of noise but thats ok. I'm pretty happy with how they turned out.

Gripped

Coyote Rock Gym

Point and Shoot

I recently said I would be putting up weekly point and shoot photos. I soon realized this will be harder than I thought because I am so busy with school. Here are some more photos taken with my Olympus.

Motion!

I created a Vimeo account. I plan to slowly explore motion in the coming months. In class we have to make a 2 minute video of whatever we want. Expect that to be up soon!

Check the link below

MY VIMEO

Movie Poster

This semester we were assigned an assignment called movie poster. It's pretty self explanatory so I wont go into to much detail about it. The whole purpose of this assignment is to learn how to shoot to proportions. Im pretty happy with the outcome of this shot. I did Into The Wild, I highly recommend this movie to anyone who hasn't seen it.

Final Image!

Here is the Final Image!!

Professional models In the studio!

Yesterday in studio class we had a bunch of models from Angie's Models and Talent International come in. It was a pretty crazy experience. First we had to pick the model we wanted from a line of models and that in it's self is a pretty weird experience. After we pick the model that we wanted, we had to tell them what to wear. This didn't really apply for my shot because I was going more for a face shot. After that, we bring the model to our set and start taking the pictures. The one thing I didn't like about this workshop was the time constraint we had on this. Since there is so many students and such little amount of space and time for taking pictures, I was only able to take 5 shots. I kinda got what I was going for, but I wish I had more time to get exactly what I wanted.

The overall experience of this workshop was awesome. It's amazing how much easier it is to shoot with models then just random people who have no modeling experience. You tell the model what to do and they do it perfectly. I will for sure start shooting with models a lot more now.

Here is the raw image. I will post the final image soon!