Self Promotion: Men's Fashion

For digital class we had to work with a graphic design student to produce images in a series of work that showcased what we want to do as a profession. I really want to take Men's Fashion photography so I thought of producing 3 images of 3 different fashionable looks. Ultimately these are the images that we came up with.

 I am very happy and proud of the images.

Digital to Black and White

The assignment was to take a photo and turn it into a black and white photo using Photoshop techniques, trying to make it look like a silver gelatin print shot and developed in a darkroom. Here is mine:

In a perfect world...

If you could make your perfect world, what would be in it? Truthfully I don't know what my answer would be. But there are certain aspects that I know would be there.
Water, lots of water.
Snow.
Rain.
Seems like a cold place no? Well I love the idea. So for our last digital photo assignment, we had to combine 4 different photos to make our own perfect world.

It's supposed to be a type of Nirvana or Samadi, so don't call it a trampoline in the water. >_>
There are actually a lot of problems with my editing but luckily my teacher said that the image was really interesting.
I think that if I redo it though, I'll listen to lots and lots of Enya and grab inspiration from her lyrics cause, I love them so much and I think she has perfect music that can inspire a perfect world! :D

Self Portrait with Texture

Gentlemen's Quarterly and Colorblindness

For our last photo assignment, we were given the task to re/create a magazine cover of our choice. Actually, our photo teacher didn't tell us what we would be doing, he just asked us our favorite magazine or the magazine we would like to shoot for.
I said GQ instinctively because it's men's fashion, and I like shooting guys and fashion. That's when he dropped the assignment on us, and immediately I was scared that I wouldn't be able to deliver a good image.
One of my friends is a pretty good looking guy so I decided to ask him to pose for me, and since he's an acting major I thought it would be good to get him some nice images. But I didn't know what to dress him in or how to take the shot. My good friend Jess let me borrow her studio lights and I had my flashes and umbrellas. And then my lovely friend Moana let me use her front room as a studio.
But most of all, Becky Leung helped me with art direction, hair styling, and costuming on the actual shoot. That girl knows her stuff and what looks good. She stayed the whole shoot which I believe was 2 hours + and didn't not complain.
After taking the shots I began to look through all of the images that were worth editing. Luckily there were quite a few but ultimately I decided on one. As I began to edit the image I felt quite confident about it and was done pretty quickly. Until I asked about skin tones. Becky told me my skin tones were very red. So I changed them up. Then when I asked again, she said they were green! Something was wrong cause I didn't see it. So then the TA, overhearing our conversation, had me take a colorblindness test. And it turns out that I'm slightly red/green colorblind. D: This just a little disconcerting because I want to shoot people for my career.
Anyway, after staring at the picture long enough and figuring out other things to edit, I was able to produce a great image. And here it is: