Limb City

new stuff. where is this going?

Illusion

This is photograph that I have taken digitally, put an overlay of an optical illusion, printed a digital negative and printed in the darkroom on 9 16x16 RC B&W paper. This example is only the digital version, not the printed one.

RC print with food dye

I experimented with painting with developer and toning/painting with food coloring on the prints! fun. fun.

dresses

stars & fishes

sifting through the junk

I have so many random photos that I never use and no one gets to see. I found this one and I think I like it.

untitled

Bees

 I made a collage of bees. There are digital negatives, rc prints, and digital prints.

Portrait Patterns

 So these are single portraits that I took repeated many many times to create these textile like patterns. If you zoom up close you can see the faces.

Pinata

Portraits that I took of a band called pinata with my lensbaby

Prism

I attached a mirror prism that I made and set it on the end of my lens. I plan on experimenting with new reflective surfaces.

hallo-queen

Used with Lensbaby Double-Glass
I found a TV on the side of the road and I loved it!

Looks Like A God Damn Religous Icon

My lighting teacher pointed this out to me. After seeing the photograph that I had taken, his response was to watch Dead Man by Jim Jarmusch. The resemblance is uncanny.

Cyclops

 Long exposures of Justin Caruso! These are the funniest yet. Looking at his cyclops eye and the eye on his nose really makes me laugh.

Insane

 The photos are absolutely insane! These photos of Nic Opper are straight out of my camera I promise you. The textures in the yellow photo are stunning how they lifted off his jacket and onto the whole picture. The colors and everything is perfect!

Upside Down

More long exposures! These are of my friend Chelsea, all these people letting me take their photo are troopers. Getting bright lights flashed in your face for hours is not fun. Thanks for putting up with me!

Ms. Hollywood

These dramatic photos are of my friend Laura. Amazing...

Dance Until You Die

 These long exposure photos are of my friend Carlyn. No photoshop just like the photos before this post. We both got exercise during this shoot : ) Super fun

Neon Lights

Space

These photos were taken using a slide projector and an LED projector and the amazing artist Justin Caruso! The background photos are astronomy photos and and a fancy bed. Psychedelic....

Bones

These are the next two pictures in my series. Thanks to Nic and a deceased deer, some great portraits were made. This is also my first attempt with using my new Alienbees 800 strobe professional lights! The red light was made by using an Alienbee with a red gel and a honeycomb grid.

Mask

New photo up! All of the portraits I will be doing including this one and glitter will be apart of one whole project/theme. Isn't this one creepy? Well good! That's the way I like it.
And btw, his face is not photoshoped in. Who do you think I am?

Glitter!

New photos up of a project that I just worked on!... including my awesome friend Carlyn, glitter, glue and a bath tub. I am so excited about these. I think they turned out absolutely stunning.

Creative Workflow Final

http://castellanaabstract.blogspot.com/
 check it out! I worked on using existing light to create light abstractions. Here's a quick preview!

clear relfections

white and silver ink

self portrait unfinished

oil pastels

double rock watercolor

watercolor pencils, watercolor paint

the human

chalk, charcoal, acrylic paint, marker