Fine-Art Photography

An ongoing collection of still-life photography involving figures, maquettes, and other interesting objects which are subject to varying degrees of judgement and scrutiny. (And sometimes bullets.)

Unit 1607 of 7000, my own little exclusive piece of Arendelle finally arrives at my home studio. And we have some fun... ❤️

Starring Fujiko Mine (Second TV version, 28cm, Medicom Stylish Collection no. 42) Bed and furnishings by American Girl.

(The title is pretty much nonsensical. Dismiss.) It started out as a figure skating homage, but veered off into darker territory when Fuji-cakes found Joker's Glock.

What a most unlikely cast of characters! And I have no higher purpose to help explain why I surrounded myself with them in particular, especially since a decade's hindsight now reveals that only one of the characters that showed up was represented on my wallscrolls. Creations of the subconscious rarely make sense. Nevertheless, I'm grateful to have been serenaded by the presence of these girls.

My 2nd extracurricular mixed-media outing, this time with the Teen Titans' Raven. Needless to say, I was in the midst of nurturing a deep infatuation at the time I made this. The original photography took place at the Rochester Institute of Technology's Interfaith Center, and shot with Fuji Velvia 4X5" sheet film—a photo student's IMAX equivalent. The use of a view camera allowed for in-camera tilt/shift DOF manipulation, which I loved to play with. The colored pencil drawings of Raven were pasted in Photoshop.

One of my first Photoshop-driven mixed-media works as a fine art photography student at RIT's School of Photographic Arts & Sciences. Outside of regular curriculum, I found a little bit of time to be graded on elaborate pieces of fan art, such as this Naruto-inspired series. The colored-pencil drawings were scanned and pasted onto the film scans in Photoshop, whereas back in high school I'd cut out the actual drawings and glue them onto silver-gelatin prints (which my college professor actually thought a more compelling process.)