Location Portrait: Mike and Mouse

I took this picture with location lights at mike's firestation. Mouse was getting tired when we took it so he was a little restless.

Low key Portrait

I took this picture of my friend Raphael for a Low Key portrait assignment. My goal was to make it look like an old film noir image.

Mid-Key Character portrait

For my most recent portrait photography class I decided to shoot an extreme self portrait. My bro's good friend Brad did a fantastic job with the tattoos on the neck. The hair was tricky too!

Analogous Still life

For my color photography class I turned in this image for the analogous color assignment. Working with live bugs was quite the adventure.

Bridal Portraits

The first assignment for my portrait photography class is to shoot a full length bridal. Kelsae was nice enough to model for me. Again there are one or two more I will post soon...

High Key Headshot

My last portrait assignment was to take a High-Key Headshot for an actor. I asked my friends Natalie and Matt from Divine Comedy to sit for me.

Monochromatic Color

The first assignment for my color photography class is to do a monochromatic image. This is what I came up with!

Divine Comedy Twilight Poster

Photography and photoshop by Kati Ellis and Design by myself...I look like I got vampire plastic surgery! SO FUNNY!

Divine Comedy Banner

This is a poster I shot and designed for Divine Comedy advertising. 

"Unhinged" at the LDS Film Festival

Tonight the short film I directed, "Unhinged" played in the 8th Annual LDS Film Festival. There was a big crowd there who seemed to really respond well to the film. At the conclusion of the film there were quite a few gasps at the surprise ending. I even overheard a group of people after the screening talking about how much they enjoyed "Unhinged's" last few moments. The best part of the night was at the awards ceremony when we found out that a panel of judges gave us an honorable mention! Not shabby!

"Unhinged" Updates

"Unhinged" has been accepted into the Beverly Hills Hi-Def Film Festival. I will hopefully fly down to enjoy the other films and meet people.
Also, we just found out that "Unhinged" won an Accolade Merit award! I will keep posting any news as it comes!

Photo Illustration

My last photo assignment we were given the chance to do whatever we wanted to show off our photoshop skills. I decided that I wanted to creep people out.

Unhinged Invitation for Photoshop

This is a mockup for a potential form of advertising for Unhinged during the forthcoming festival season.

Film V. HD

I love film like I love my wife and I'll never cheat on either of them. I had to shoot HD. I didn't like it. It felt alien. Not natural. Not human. People who don't know film talk about HD like its some kind of secret weapon. But for me the only place digital belongs is in post, where it can help unlock film's potential. Technology is good at making things better. It fails when it tries to replace or synthesize something that's already perfect. The fact is, when you shoot HD you hope it looks like film. No one ever shoots film hoping to emulate HD.
-Samuel Bayer.

New Divine Comedy Poster

This is the new Divine comedy poster where we spoof James Bond. I shot the images and my friend Katie helped tweak stuff in photoshop.

Interpretive Self Portraits

The first day of my black and white photography class a year ago I was asked what superpower I would love to have. I chose to be able to handle fire without being burned. This week's assignment in digital photography was to shoot an "interpretive" self portrait. I felt the fire accurately describes my stress at the moment and my hopes to withstand it without being charred. 

Daily Universe Newspaper mentions Unhinged

Check out the bottom of the front page for a picture from the set of unhinged: http://newsnet.byu.edu/pdf/

Select the date 10/24/08

Photoshop assignment

This week I had to combine several images together to describe what a perfect world would look like. This is what I came up with. All the images used I have taken over the last year.

Digital Photography Assignment

I had to photoshop some of my work into a magazine cover from scratch.

Divine Comedy Poster

I "photoshopped" this poster for the comedy troupe that I am in. I took the pictures of the people during practice, the rock on a trip to Zion's, and the sky from Brazil.