Chroma: Spellbound

CHROMA

magazine

spellbound OCTOBER 2015

EDITOR’S letter Dear Readers,

For this month’s issue of Chroma, we’ve decided to embrace the aura of the season by working with a spooky theme - “Spellbound”. This month, you’ll find a range of unique aesthetics all combining to form an outstandingly spooky, mystical, & spellbinding issue.

I hope you find inspiration in the work of these very talented individuals & thank you for reading Chroma Magazine.

Ruby Becker Editor

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betsy hanrahan // 006-013 tara umesh // 014-019 ellie josephson // 020-027 louise hewitt // 028-035 madeleine newton // 036-043 makena wilcox // 044-049 anna cornwell // 050-055 jane greene // 056-061 devon macgregor // 062-067 kallie hutchinson // 068-075 ruby becker // 076-081 jake woodling // 082-087 olivia madrid // 088-093 audrey maddux // 094-099 sabrina pruett // 100-105

tutorial levitation // 106-110

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WAITING grace

betsy hanrahan

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I created a series of ten photos taken in the Post Hospital in Fort Vancouver. The series in entitled “Waiting Grace.” The photos are taken of Cassie Paulsen. They are taken in the evening with side lighting. The photos are shot in Camera Raw on a Canon T3i.

The photos required quite a bit of pre-planning. Before doing the series, I planned out my compositions in my photo journal.

Then, I created the floral bandeau by sewing fake flowers onto a bra. At the post hospital, I used my planned compositions and the in the moment inspiration to take shots. When editing, I brought up the exposure and lowered the highlights. By doing this, I created a more balanced lighting in the shot. For most of the shots, I maintained the colour and integrity of the shot. Most of the edits were very minimal, though I used contrast and lighting to highlight the limbs and body parts of the subjects.

The photos are created to make the viewer feel an eerie and foreboding sense. After shooting before at the Post Hospital, I felt that I wanted to grow off of the work that I have done before. I also wanted to contrast the delicacy of Cassie’s garb with the run down anguish of the hospital. This strong contrast fed the spooky feeling even more.

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BUG’S LIFE tara umesh

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MID DAY ellie josephson

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FEELING BLUE louise hewitt

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do you know YOUR NEIGHBORS? madeleine newton

For this photo series I wanted to show a “day in the life” of a psychopath, I tried to make this series as accurate as possible, but I have no concrete knowledge of a what a psychopath does in their day to day life so I did some research and used that to inspire my own personal vision for a psychopath’s life.

For my process I first began with research on psychopaths and Sociopaths, and was highly inspired by the movie American Psycho. Once I felt my understanding was deep enough, I began planning the individual photos I would take, and contacted Evan about modeling because I felt that he would be the best model for my vision. Once everything was planned, I took a Saturday and went to Evan’s house to take photos of him and Tara.

Each photo was pretty accurate to what I planned, but many were also discovered at the location. Every photo took at least 5 minutes to set up, and Evan helped a lot with setting up everything and taught me how to create realistic fake blood (THANK YOU VA FOCUS)! After the photos were finished, I edited them to the best of my abilities to create the look I desired, and then they were done!

For me, like anyone I am slightly afraid of the idea of ghosts, alien abductions, or even zombies, but the things that scare me the most are the ordinary people around me that are capable of doing extraordinarily awful things. Research shows that 1 out of every 100 people is a psychopath or a sociopath, and to me that is something that I find truly terrifying, which is why I thought it’d be the best to portray with my series.

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TRAPPED makena wilcox

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SHUTTER anna cornwell

I played with different shutter speeds to create an eerie vibe to my photographs and used a sheer sheet that I moved to create motion in a still photograph

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absentminded FIGUR

d RES jane greene

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devon macgregor

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trapped KALLIE HUTCHINSON

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PLUME ruby becker

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mysteries beyond us

JAKE WOODLING

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SHADOWS

olivia madrid

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presence AUDREY MADDUX

For this photo series I went to the Post Hospital, an abandoned military hospital, and shot portraits. I had never been in the hospital before and didn’t know what to expect, lighting or composition wise. I really liked the bright natural lights from the windows and the way the geometric look of the hospital looked with the organic shapes the model created with her body.

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dia de LOS MUERTOS sabrina pruett

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LEVITATION tutorial YOU’LL NEED:

- DSLR Camera

- tripod

- model/subject

- balance (chair, stool, etc.)

- Adobe Photoshop STEP ONE: setting up your shoot

The first step is to connect your camera & tripod. This is an essential step! Next, create your composition - keeping in mind that this cannot be easily changed later.

STEP TWO: shooting

Using the Manual setting, take a photo of the background you chose. Position your model, using chairs, stools, etc., to get the look of levitation. Take a photo of your model within the chosen background using the EXACT same settings as the photo you took of just your background.

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STEP THREE: editing set up

In Adobe Photoshop, open both images (just background & background with subject). Layer them on top of one another so that the photo with your subject is visable.

STEP FOUR: aligning & cropping

Hold down the shift key and select both your layers. Then go to Edit > Auto-Align Layers. Once this is done processing, crop the photo so that the photo’s edges are clean.

STEP FIVE: erase

Select the layer with your subject in it & zoom in. Using the eraser tool, begin to erase the stool/chair/etc. your subject is resting on. Continue until there is no trace of the stool/chair/etc. & your subject appears to be levitating!

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