Design Your Mind

I can’t believe how much better my lighting class has made me understand light. There are a lot of principals and theories that I did not know about which I wouldn’t have been able to understand unless dealing with it on a personal level. Understanding the ‘family of angles’, how shadows cast and the inverse square law do not just absorb into your brain without hands on practice. All college text books are filled to the brim with knowledge that can teach you anything but you can’t demonstrate an understanding of something just be reading it and taking a test. That is why I enjoy my lighting class. We will read from the book a few fundamental lighting principals and then practice them all day in class. It can’t get any better then that.

My latest assignment I have been working on for class is glass. For some, this is the most difficult type of photography, which I totally agree with and can sympathize. My teacher keeps telling us, “If you understand how to light glass you can light anything.” It is so true! There is nothing that glass won’t throw at you; shadows, glare, reflection, the whole gamut and the kitchen sink.

These few pictures are my attempt at lighting glass and demonstrating the light techniques I have learned. Enjoy.

The water bottles are not glass but they use the same principals. Its fun to make things that are so boring into things that are extraordinary.

Cheers,
Aaron

I have been so swamped with school that I forgot that I even had a blog. Believe me, when you go to school for as long as I have you kind of forget about everything else. Everything seems to just get pushed back or swept under the rug to allow school to become priority. In this case, a little bit of both has occurred making blogging nearly impossible.

What have I been up to?
School, plain and simple is what I have been up to. I have been struggling in my classes this quarter because of how boring they are (Aaron struggling? No...). I am not use to being so bored in class to the point of falling asleep. It has never happened to me. This quarter though I cant seem to keep my eyes open in two of my classes; 20th Century Design Theory and Caves to Cathedrals. As for my other two classes, Intro to Sustainability and Photography Lighting 102, I could not ask for more. Intro to sustainability is a straight forward but interesting class. I could sit in that class all day and learn about biomimicry and ‘cradle to cradle’. All that stuff  is interesting to me. I like to know what impact I am having when I do the things I do. As for my photo class, of course I love that class. Its what I do. Here is some of my homework if you would like to see:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/doughboyconcepts
Look for the lighting assignments.

Anywho, I'm going to get some grub.
Aaron