Photography and Editing by Ben

Click Here To Read My Photography Artist Statement

Photography is something I have really enjoyed over the past year. I love how it comes down to choice and interpreting the world in a unique and meaningful way. I would definitely call myself an introvert and I am a stay-at-home kind of person, which would seem to make photography challenging for me. However, the drive to capture more amazing images has helped me grow and given me a purpose to explore and seek new adventures for my imagery. As much as my studies and practices have shown me new skills and possibilities, the more I explore, the more I realize that the journey of photography is a never-ending road.

One of my goals is to specialize in a more directed photographic approach and format as best as possible. As I specialize my approach, I aim to focus my process and perfect my artistic eye through that medium. I truly believe that my passions and abilities as a photographer can develop into a career, meaningful experiences in travel, and new opportunities in the future. Whatever my career or professional future holds, I am determined to ensure that it lines up with my interests and allows me to express my artistic talent. Even if photography becomes a sideline to my career, I hope to always foster my passions and feel excitement in whatever work I do.

As a photographer, my style as of late is to capture dramatic, extraordinary, and exceptionally beautiful landscapes. My work represents Vermont and gives people a whole new way to see our little State in a new light. My skills to capture and edit photos showcase how I think outside the box and aim to become a photography master. I have a unique style in my approach to editing in software like Adobe Lightroom, especially in my color adjustments and the dynamic range I create in my images. Although I always aim to capture amazing content in camera, my manipulation abilities allow me to create work that is worlds above untrained photographers. Utilizing my collection of professional hardware and my exceptional skills with editing, I hope that the dramatic unique compositions I create in my frame make my audiences think differently.

MY PHOTOGRAPHY

Below are some examples of my photography over the past year.

You can also see more of my photography work on my INSTAGRAM by clicking here!

Landscape Orientation Highlights

Portrait Orientation Highlights

DMA Projects

Below are examples of my work with photography and photo manipulation projects in the DMA Program.

Macro Textures Photo series

For these photos, I experimented with angles and shallow focus on my lens to take some macro photos around campus.

Four Seasons Portrait Series

Creating a specific look of winter, summer, spring, and fall with lighting and color gels in a studio setting.

Movie Poster Recreation

For this project, we created large-format movie posters with all of our own photography. I remade the iconic orange-tinted cover of The Sixth Sense from scratch with numerous studio photos masked together.

Photo Restoration

For this project, I took an old damaged photograph and restored it to a modern clean photo with manual fixes and painting in Photoshop.

Extrospection Portraits

I shot some portraits of friends using shallow depth of field and some portrait-style editing to make these!

Clone Photoshop Edit

To create this effect, I sat/walked around with a camera taking long exposure pictures that I masked together to make it look like I was cloned.

Long Exposure Light Painting Effect

To create these, I took a light and ran down the street while taking a series of photos.

Clipping Mask Effect

For this Photoshop effect I masked out the inside of a text and put a series of images within it to showcase the Sigma lens brand creatively.

Studio Portrait Tests

In getting to know our DMA studio, I shot some portraits with some classmates to experiment with studio lighting.

Digital Double Exposure

To create this effect, I took a portrait and an original photograph and masked them together.

CVCC Career Exploration Day Series

This is a series of photos I was commissioned to shoot by our school when dozens of employers visited to give presentations to many CVCC programs about employment opportunities. I tried to capture the energy and dynamic look of the many CVCC programs in my photos.

Studio Gray Backdrop Explorations

This is a series I shot with Aidan to explore how to use lighting to modify a middle grey paper backdrop for portraiture.

Adjustment Layer Edit

I used Adjustment Layers in Photoshop to selectively edit the windows in this symmetrical architecture photo I shot.

Frame Edit

This was an abstract photo manipulation I created to make it look as though my image was coming out of the frame. The perspective of the photo helped create this as well as the masking in Photoshop.

Collage Edit

One of our first projects in Photoshop to learn layer modes and masking was to make a collage; I created this abstract collage piece using dozens of long exposure, bokeh focus, or other photography effects that I have shot working together.

Watercolor Photo Manipulation Edit

For this project, we painted abstract watercolors that we scanned and merged with portrait photography in Photoshop with masking effects.

Photo Challenge- Saturation

This was one of our weekly photo challenges where we had to shoot 2 photos; one that only worked in color, and a second that only worked in black and white. These were my submissions!

Photo Challenge- Lighting

This was one of our weekly photo challenges where we had to shoot 2 photos; one that used lighting to express excitement, and a second that used lighting to express mystery. These were my submissions!

Double Portrait Face Effect

This unique effect was created by doing a side profile portrait photo that acted as a mask around our faces, showing a unique doubling effect.

Abstract Surrealist Edit

For this project, we created our own worlds with surrealist, abstract, and heavily manipulated editing in Photoshop. I again tried to make something completely original by combining elements from many different original photos together in one.

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