My Final Photo Series - Musicians with there Instruments

a choir

 

Photography lawsuit papper

Nelson Tang is a photographer who was hired by a couple to be there wedding photographer. After the wedding he was payed and all was good, the married couple who hired him even posted about 1,000 of his pictures on there facebook pages with captions about how good and excellent the pictures where. This couple ended up suing the photographer for 300,000$ on grounds that his pictures were not professional and that he falsely advertised. In support of the photographer, world famous photographer Gary Fong, started a campaign via his youtube channel that would make it whenever you google the name Nelson Tang you would get “Nelson Tang: Photographer being terrorized and bullied by attorney/client for $300,000 even though the photographs came out nicely and the couple posted over 1,000 of them on Facebook with comments like, “Great Images” etc...”. I don’t know how far the case went or if it was ever dropped. But I look at this case and see a bunch of BS. The couple has no grounds to do this, its straight up insanity as there are no real legal grounds for what is being pushed here. There are no available photos on the internet to show what his work looked like, so assuming that his photos where perfectly fine, there's no reason this should be considered a reasonable case and I really hope that the photographer got off scot free. I do know that Gary Fong started a funding page for Nelson to help him afford the lawyers for the case. As far as I know and can only imagine, he's fine and everything went well. Meaning he won the lawsuit.

Side Work

Studio Lighting Project

Split Lighting

Loop Lighting

Rembrandt Lighting

Butterfly Lighting

Broad Lighting

Short Lighting

Experimental Lighting

 A Nightmare

"Keep it Surreal" project

Every Day Faces

Bored

Curious

Grumpy

Happy

Scared

Surprised

Photo Stich

Andy Worhol-ize  project

 Recreation of "The Old Guitarist" by Pablo Picasso

Advanced Portrait Work : A

Candid

Altered Perspective

Discomfort Zone

Lighting Contrast

Looking off camera

Looking within the frame

Genuine Smile

All other shots

Left Side

Center 

Right Side  

Left Side debate

Theres a theory or concept going around that when taking portraits of people, that the left side of there face happens to be most flattering or shows the most emotion. I set out on a task to discover how true or false this theory is. By doing this I tested three shots, the left side, center, and right side. Above are the three pictures I choose out of a photo shoot that I thought showed off each side the best way possible. 

When looking at these three I do think that all sides are equal as I was able to get a good shot of all three directions. When this 'Left Side' argument comes in is the fact that I had another 6 or so left side shots that where good as apposed to the 2 front shot I had and the 1 right side shot I had. This tells me that the left side might be better if your looking for quick consistency but other sides and angles are still incredibly ussable and when it comes down to it, it makes me think that this theory is wrong. But that might just be the bias of my photo subject for this project as he does make amazing faces from all directions and most of the bad pictures where on my part as a photographer as apposed to one side not showing enough emotion as apposed to another.