Never give up: The Ivanize Experience

I produced a brief documentary on Ivan Humphries, well known Detroit
Hair Stylist. He briefly talks about his experience in the hair industry
and how he was able to finally live his dream of opening up his own
hair school.

Ivan talks about how life can sometimes hit us hard
but the key to life is not giving up. Go for what you want despite what
others may think and despite what it takes to get to where you want to
be.

He is a known stylist in his era and is known for doing different celebrity's hair, such as Aretha Franklin.

Wayne State Warriors take on Lawrence Tech Blue Devils

Wayne State Warriors cheerleaders use their school spirits to root for their team during timeout.

Wayne State Warrior Kristen Long, # 11, uses her defensive techniques on Blue Devils team player number 21 from making a score.

This photo assignment was quite an experience for me. It was a little tough for me because I had problems trying to capture the moments while in mid action.
I had to play around with my different shutter speeds, F-Stop and ISO settings in order for me to capture a photo that was not blurry.
This was a good experience for me because it helped me to get used  to using different settings. It was also a great game, the Wayne State Warrior won against the Blue Devils, 82-72.

Mary Pinkowski, Wayne State Warriors head coach.

 

 

 

 

Braid My Hair!

My portraiture assignment was taken at Salon Ivanize, a local hair salon in Detroit, Michigan. This assignment was a little tougher than I expected. When taking the headshot, I had to take a few pictures to try to accomplish my goal for the assignment. In order to get a close to perfect headshot I needed to make sure the background was clear and no distractions. This was sort of hard because of all of the tools and space inside the hair salon. So I decided to take the head shots in front of a plain white wall, drawing attention to only her face and not the background. The environmental portraiture was a little difficult for me because I captured pictures of the stylist doing hair and it was difficult trying to capture the right image with the stylist and client both moving around a lot. But overall this was a great experience for me.

Mink Little

Mink Little working on her client, Aaliyah Moore, at Salon Ivanize located in downtown Detroit, MI.