Carlos Paradinha Photography: As Summer Begins (at school, that is)

So the first week of school is officially over for me. I don't know if I should take the time to type "yeay!" or not. I guess I just did. Anyway - it was a good week. I like all my classes, and I think the classmates I have in them are all quite awesome. I like what we're going to be doing in Fashion class on Mondays, Digital Photographic Art Direction on Tuesdays, Alternative Processes II and Portraiture on Wednesdays... I've scheduled myself for darkroom time at school on Sundays, late, just before they close.

I'm really looking forward to posting the images created this quarter here. I'm also working on creating a web site for myself that is more professional, less bloggy, and full of imagery that is conducive to me actually getting a gig somewhere with cool companies that like what I do.

Let's see... With Fashion, I'm looking at doing something that will be a bit on the whimsical side - hopefully my location pans out and I'm able to execute my vision for the shoot. It's almost too simple of a shoot, with minimal equipment and all that, but sometimes the simplest things become a wet bag of worms.

With Digital Photographic Art Design, I'm going to be paired up with a nice graphic designer to create an ad campaign of some sort that is a bit on the editorial side. My alley.

Alternative Process will be pretty cool with the prints we're to create - one of the processes, something unpronounceable by mere mortals, seems like it will potentially yield some amazing images. Stoked.

Portraiture will have some envelope pushing potential, and I'm really looking forward to working with the people in the class.

But, before I can post anything here from school, I have to do homework! And I'm still formulating some of the imagery I need to compose and stuff. So, until I can share my images with the blogosphere, I will leave you with some older images I did with a gentleman named Darrell who is a Yoga instructor in Virginia. He's a very awesome individual and will BEAT YOU UP in Yoga. I remember bleeding internally through my eyes under his instruction. It was THAT good.