Use It And Just Photograph!
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It’s 21st of October, 2008. Let’s see what this means – hmmm, it’s almost the 4th of November!!!!!! A tad bit excited I know haha. But what’s even funnier is that this person who’s excited never gets a gift; I think I got my last birthday present when I was about thirteen. It’s okay though I’m not wishing for a Nikon D300, or a Billionaire Boys Club Tee, or an Ed Hardy Tee; it’s cool I don’t need a gift for my birthday. 
Today’s Post: Use It And Just Photograph!
Just like I started years ago in my high-school I’m back to photographing portraits of my friends. I don’t think this is every going to change, as boring as it is I love making portraits; who knows where this will take me someday. First step to making a boring portrait exciting is to find a person with Jamie’s energy! lol Much love Jamie, btw I miss ya! Give me a call babe. The second step of making your portrait interesting is to put something interesting in the photograph. An example is homeboy’s shirt in the photograph.
I called over a a few friends including these two shown in the post and told them that I wanted to make some portraits; the hood way. I didn’t have access to a softbox or strobes or reflectors but I had a moment of memory that I wanted to capture of my friends at SCAD. More important than that I needed these portraits for my first class on digital photography. I place a chair next to the wall, I took a lamp from Target that cost about $10.00, photographed the images and stripped the color using photoshop. It was a simple shoot.
Looking back at this these photographs as I update the article I probably would have used a beauty dish above with a sock on it at 45º using it as a hair light, a softbox to the frontside (left or right) and the strip-box to the opposite back of the subject and a reflector held at the waist of the subject bouncing light back into the eyes. However I need to make the images using what I had.
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DT.
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Alvaro
10.21.2008
Hey Dwayne,
Inspiring tweets and posts, indeed you only need the will and inspiration to take good photos! Enjoy your day.
jamie
10.22.2008
DWAYNE! hahaha you’re hilarious. my face is screaming at everyone.
i hope you have a happy birthday!
Dwayne D.C.Tucker II
11.01.2010
Hey Alvaro,
I’m doing some cleaning up on my blog and updating the post. I’m looking back at these articles and embracing how much my photographs as grown from them. It’s amazing to go back into this time machine.
I just wanted to tell you thank you for the comment you left me on this post!
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DT.