Photography

Headshot studies exploring lighting and portrait techniques, created in a supervised classroom setting. Subjects include a guest model provided for educational use and personal subjects photographed with consent.

A study in perspective, movement, and compositional lines—featuring a girl leaping in a split on a trampoline against diagonally streaked clouds, and a low-angle view of a cherub on a bench framed by angled siding and sky.

This two-part project explores how color, contrast, and tonal interpretation can transform the mood of a single photograph through both monochrome and color using a dramatic landscape photograph where an expansive sky filled with wispy, textured clouds dominates the frame above a highway leading into the distance. The softness, depth, and movement of the clouds create a strong visual pull, inviting the viewer to pause and take in the scale and atmosphere of the scene. Rich blue tones, enhanced contrast, and carefully refined cloud detail heighten the natural drama of the original photograph while maintaining its authenticity.

"Monochrome Sky Study" received an Honorable Mention in the 2026 Student Showcase in Evansville, IN

This series of six landscape images explores compositional balance through both dynamic and subtle visual structure. Several images use strong leading lines to draw the viewer into the horizon, while others focus on tonal harmony and grounded composition. Together, they create a unified study of how different approaches to framing can work in dialogue with one another.

One tea set, three scenes—exploring how light, shadow, and perspective shape perception.

Created using long exposure light painting, this image captures a seated silhouette surrounded by circles of moving light. It explores the contrast between stillness and motion, using light as a way to shape atmosphere and draw focus to form and presence.

This low-light product study explores how controlled lighting reveals transparency, color, and form within a water bottle. Light passing through the object brings out the blue label and subtle red accents, while soft reflections on the black surface create depth and contrast within the composition.

A green Statue of Liberty against a vibrant blue sky, captured in natural light, is paired with a daisy under blue studio lighting. The petals mirror the sky, while the soft green center echoes the statue—linking natural and controlled light through shared color.

A red rose transformed into emerald tones through green studio lighting—captured in-camera, cropped only.