Week 2 BOC: Crime Scene

The crime scene where a woman has been stabbed and left to die on the computer desk after attempting to log onto the computer. We do not know what the intentions were only to find that there were divorce envelope left on the desk already opened. I used the lamp to show the scene as if it just happened. I had the knife blobbed with color dyed apple sauce and wrote "Divorce Settlement" to make the story. I used the lamp as my lighting to show where the crime was done. I wanted to give it that office look and the darkness around it to give it that dark feel also. It was done during the day even so I left the curtains closed to make it look like it was done at night. I made myself the subject because I think I can give a good dead person appeal on a shot. I posed myself enough to make myself look like I am dead. I had to pose in a way that I was dangling that my jaw bone hurt laying hard on the desk. I put my camera on a timer taking about five shots per frame. In each shot, I posed with my arm on the desk, with my arm off the desk, with my glasses on or with my glasses off. I did one without any notes, but it didn’t create much of a story or drama so with a note seemed better. I even did some with a scary note on it. I thought it looked too horror type so I put the divorce envelope to make it more modern and real. The red blood I wanted to look like it was real and thick so I used apple sauce to thickin my fake blood.

BOC Week 1 About Me

The photo here was taken on a foggy night of the Las Vegas town and strip. The town is where I grew up and most of my life believed it to be a dull and bland town. But after seeing the city for what it was I grew to appreciate the beauty of it. I say it is the beauty that becomes more interesting. I grew up to be more open and look more interesting as I live my life. I took this on Friday night in December at 10:30 pm out on the east side of Boulder Highway up on the hill. On that hill is just a protected park just for horses mostly and for running, biking and walking. But this night was a very mysterious night because Las Vegas is known for its hot weather and dry climate and cloudless days. The area I was at only had cactus and desert plants and bushes. It is all flat and treeless. I am so appreciative because with trees, one would have a hard time seeing the town. Most nights it is glittering lights along the horizon on the city line. It is still pretty. I took this with a slow shutter speed and high ISO to capture the lights and the lights reflecting off the fog around and above the city. It took me about over 50 shots to get the perfect shot because it was windy enough to move me and cold enough to be in that shiver state. It has been foggy for the passed few days and this one was an opportunity I could not miss. The next night was barely any fog at all. I wanted the night sky above to be a gradual phase from the fog to make it look mysterious and wintery.