Aaron Van Dike

Located in Ohio, far from the photography power houses of Los Angeles and New York, twenty year old photographer Aaron Van Dike is a prime example of self taught technical competency that has been nurtured over the years by a sincere passion and an insatiable curiosity for photography. Working with Paul C. Buff Alien Bee strobes he photographs bands for promotional purposes, his friends in humorous and smile invoking images, and whatever else catches his eye.

Critiques.

Images from the photo critiques held in the studio for Paul Turounet’s Color I and Color II classes, as well as Suda House’s Studio I and Studio II:

El Camino Lighting Composite

Studio Lighting instructor Suda House gave her Studio II students a shooting assignment requiring them to photograph an object in the studio multiple times from a fixed position atop a tripod while moving a single light source to different positions for each frame. Students were then instructed to composite the resulting images together in photoshop, “painting” in various specular highlights in a process known as light compositing.

One of Suda’s students, Rhys, took full advantage of the spacious Grossmont College studio and it’s large garage door by having a friend drive his Chevy El Camino inside where Rhys could photograph the car under the school’s new profoto lights.

HDR at Mount Laguna

Lens Culture / Studio I student Will spent last Saturday shooting HDR (high dynamic range imaging) images at the abandoned airforce base atop Mount Laguna, as well as working with his Canon 40D in Ocatillo, CA. Curtfousey of the HDR processing, the work reflects the gritty decaying textures of the location, while the leading lines and diagnols are heightened by his choice of wide angle lense. Will’s flickr containing his other work can be found here.

Surveillance

Paul Turounet’s Lens Culture class completed it’s most recent assignment titled “Undercover”.  Students were instructed to “visually investigate the conceptual idea of voyeurism and surveillance and its relationship to the photographic image as a source of spectacle, evidence and ‘truth.’”

 

Student Dewey Keithly interpreted the assignment by scaling downtown San Diego’s numerous parking structures, braving the yells of security guards, and photographed people in their homes. The ensuing images give the viewer a look into private/personal moments of downtown condo and apartment life:

 

Updown, Dewey Keithly

Window Sleep, Dewey Keithly

 

Reading, Dewey Keithly