Incredible Progress

So this week I've worked a significant amount on my project! I've been super super busy so I haven't really had time to update my blog. But here I go! So, last week, I got  the lighting equipment I needed for my photo shoots, and carried it all home. Then I cleared out my brother's old room and found a black dubet cover, sliced it open and taped it to my wall. I know, it sounds completely unprofessional and sloppy, but it looks a lot better than I can describe it here. Anyway, thinking my Nikon d90 would work would sync with the lighting equipment, I had prepared to shoot last Friday but unfortunately, the camera did not have an outlet for the chord needed to connect the camera to the octagon diffuser. So, I call Ms. Sheehy up and ask her what to do, so I met her later and picked up her Nikon D200 (my camera but on steroids) which had the outlet necessary. So on Monday, I decided to shoot Tina and Sam G. First, I painted Tina red with blue accents under her eyes and on her lips. I wasn't sure how long the painting was going to take, but it was actually incredibly time consuming and one person takes up to an hour to paint. But the painting went fine, although I felt bad that they had to sit there completely still and as the paint was drying, it started to get really tight on the skin and would start cracking if the person moved to suddenly. But I worked as efficiently and as quickly as possible and painted them, shot them, and let them shower all in the time frame of 2 1/2 hours. On Tuesday, Claire N. and Morgan came over. It all went swimmingly, and after they left and showered, I started editing all the photos, which is incredibly time consuming because I want the lines and the paint to look absolutely perfect and symmetrical. On Wednesday, Claire C. came over and that also did great as well. The photos are getting progressively getting better, although I spent about 4 hours editing the photo of Claire and I'm still not finished with it. I have work today so I can't shoot, but tomorrow I am finishing the project and shooting Brandon, Terrance, and Dylan. This will be interesting since the painting is so time consuming, but they wanted to come over together so it is what it is. Then this week I'll be editing like crazy and hopefully finish the all the photos. Then I need to get them printed and potentially framed so display them for my presentation which is on Thursday. It's so crazy that I'm doing all of this the week before my presentation, but this week was the only oppurtune time to shoot, because of APs, learning how to use lighting, and the base idea of formulating the project all together. On Sunday I need to do my presentation and finish it and then on Wednesday I'll finalize everything and run through my presentation and what I will include. I want to include also that the series I'm working on took so long to happen because I was scrambling for interships but I never really got one because I guess no one really wanted to have an intern. But no hard feelings though, I love this project and I am in love with the idea and I found it really interesting to research Josef alber's work and bouncing his fundamental ideas of colors into my project.