Vanessa - Prana Quest

I recently did a shoot for Vanessa, she was looking for photo's she could use for her blog and asked me to help her out. Her blog is geared towards healthy living and simply enjoying life. Here is a link to her blog Prana Quest.

This was the first of two shoots we have planned, it was raining at the time of the shoot so we decided to move it indoors.

Here are my favorite frames from the shoot,

Steve McCurry Award!!!!!

We recently had our annual exhibition at school and it was a huge success!! Thanks to all the people who came out. There was a fair amount of awards at the show and I was lucky enough to win one!! The one I won is judged by Steve McCurry. The title of the award is called the Steve McCurry Portrait Award of Excellence. I feel so honored to have won this award and I was completely shocked to hear my name called for this. Ever since I was a kid, I remember looking through old National Geographic Magazines and always being fascinated with Steve's photographs.

Here is the picture that won me the award.

Exhibition!!

If you like photography you will like this!

Final Portfolio of school

Here is my final portfolio.

Architectural Layout

Creative Ad

Consumer Portrait

Environmental Portrait

Food Layout

Magazine Cover

Movie Poster

Self-Directed 1

Self-Directed 2

Self-Directed 3

Self-Directed 4

Self Portrait

© Matt Usherwood

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.