Okay noooow I’m actually, officially, 100% totally wrapped on shooting The Last Four Years. Jesse helped me reshoot some parts of “Violent Daylight” today since we had some pretty baller weather and a good chunk of free time. I keep trying to tell people I’m not a ginger and then things like this happen. IN ANY CASE, if you’re in the Rochester area, I’ll be displaying all the final shots at ImagineRIT this Saturday in Experimental New Media’s mini-gallery of in-progress personal projects. 

Okay noooow I’m actually, officially, 100% totally wrapped on shooting The Last Four Years. Jesse helped me reshoot some parts of “Violent Daylight” today since we had some pretty baller weather and a good chunk of free time.

I keep trying to tell people I’m not a ginger and then things like this happen.

IN ANY CASE, if you’re in the Rochester area, I’ll be displaying all the final shots at ImagineRIT this Saturday in Experimental New Media’s mini-gallery of in-progress personal projects. 

  1. Camera: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT
  2. Aperture: f/4.5
  3. Exposure: 1/800th
  4. Focal Length: 81mm
  1. Date Posted Icon 3rd May 2012
  2. Notes Icon Notes: 2
    3. Tags Icon #the last four years#violent daylight#photoblog
I’ve finished shooting for all eight of my sets for The Last Four Years - here’s a first look at all of them together. If you’re in your dashboard, you can click on the photos for current working set titles. None of these are shots that will be used in the final book (some are just straight-up outtakes), but I’ve put them together to demonstrate the color progression over the course of the series. There’s a special personal significance in each of them that you’ll be able to learn about in the final web version of the project. I’ve finished shooting for all eight of my sets for The Last Four Years - here’s a first look at all of them together. If you’re in your dashboard, you can click on the photos for current working set titles. None of these are shots that will be used in the final book (some are just straight-up outtakes), but I’ve put them together to demonstrate the color progression over the course of the series. There’s a special personal significance in each of them that you’ll be able to learn about in the final web version of the project. I’ve finished shooting for all eight of my sets for The Last Four Years - here’s a first look at all of them together. If you’re in your dashboard, you can click on the photos for current working set titles. None of these are shots that will be used in the final book (some are just straight-up outtakes), but I’ve put them together to demonstrate the color progression over the course of the series. There’s a special personal significance in each of them that you’ll be able to learn about in the final web version of the project. I’ve finished shooting for all eight of my sets for The Last Four Years - here’s a first look at all of them together. If you’re in your dashboard, you can click on the photos for current working set titles. None of these are shots that will be used in the final book (some are just straight-up outtakes), but I’ve put them together to demonstrate the color progression over the course of the series. There’s a special personal significance in each of them that you’ll be able to learn about in the final web version of the project. I’ve finished shooting for all eight of my sets for The Last Four Years - here’s a first look at all of them together. If you’re in your dashboard, you can click on the photos for current working set titles. None of these are shots that will be used in the final book (some are just straight-up outtakes), but I’ve put them together to demonstrate the color progression over the course of the series. There’s a special personal significance in each of them that you’ll be able to learn about in the final web version of the project. I’ve finished shooting for all eight of my sets for The Last Four Years - here’s a first look at all of them together. If you’re in your dashboard, you can click on the photos for current working set titles. None of these are shots that will be used in the final book (some are just straight-up outtakes), but I’ve put them together to demonstrate the color progression over the course of the series. There’s a special personal significance in each of them that you’ll be able to learn about in the final web version of the project. I’ve finished shooting for all eight of my sets for The Last Four Years - here’s a first look at all of them together. If you’re in your dashboard, you can click on the photos for current working set titles. None of these are shots that will be used in the final book (some are just straight-up outtakes), but I’ve put them together to demonstrate the color progression over the course of the series. There’s a special personal significance in each of them that you’ll be able to learn about in the final web version of the project. I’ve finished shooting for all eight of my sets for The Last Four Years - here’s a first look at all of them together. If you’re in your dashboard, you can click on the photos for current working set titles. None of these are shots that will be used in the final book (some are just straight-up outtakes), but I’ve put them together to demonstrate the color progression over the course of the series. There’s a special personal significance in each of them that you’ll be able to learn about in the final web version of the project.

I’ve finished shooting for all eight of my sets for The Last Four Years - here’s a first look at all of them together. If you’re in your dashboard, you can click on the photos for current working set titles.

None of these are shots that will be used in the final book (some are just straight-up outtakes), but I’ve put them together to demonstrate the color progression over the course of the series. There’s a special personal significance in each of them that you’ll be able to learn about in the final web version of the project.

(Source: tenthmuse.net)

  1. Date Posted Icon 1st May 2012
  2. Notes Icon Notes: 6
    3. Tags Icon #the last four years#wip#photoblog#photography#Ashley McQuaid
I had the very last shoot for The Last Four Years today, with Isar, Yekaterina, and Morgan, with assistance from Halli and Jesse. Kind of bittersweet. I had the very last shoot for The Last Four Years today, with Isar, Yekaterina, and Morgan, with assistance from Halli and Jesse. Kind of bittersweet.

I had the very last shoot for The Last Four Years today, with Isar, Yekaterina, and Morgan, with assistance from Halli and Jesse. Kind of bittersweet.

(Source: tenthmuse.net)

  1. Date Posted Icon 29th April 2012
    2. Tags Icon #the last four years#the memory tree#photoblog#photography
Now his love’s a mem’ry, A ghost in the fog. Preliminary edit from last Saturday’s shoot. Model is Jeremy Sickels. We shot at Lake Ontario while it was below freezing, windy, and rainy. I’d highly recommend um, not wearing knee-less jeans and a light jacket in such conditions, but like, I’m just saying that as an observer, not as someone who’d be that dumb. Yes. I’ve got just one more shoot this Sunday evening, and then a week to marathon these edits before I have to show the book in progress next Saturday at Imagine RIT!  I have a lot of final versions of photos and photo-illustrations I’m really proud of (and are way more interesting than the color experiments and outtakes I’ve been showing you guys), but I’m waiting until The Last Four Years’ companion website is close to being completed to share them. You can expect them starting around May 20th, with a hesitant launch date for the site set for the 23rd.

Now his love’s a mem’ry,
A ghost in the fog.

Preliminary edit from last Saturday’s shoot. Model is Jeremy Sickels. We shot at Lake Ontario while it was below freezing, windy, and rainy. I’d highly recommend um, not wearing knee-less jeans and a light jacket in such conditions, but like, I’m just saying that as an observer, not as someone who’d be that dumb. Yes.

I’ve got just one more shoot this Sunday evening, and then a week to marathon these edits before I have to show the book in progress next Saturday at Imagine RIT! 

I have a lot of final versions of photos and photo-illustrations I’m really proud of (and are way more interesting than the color experiments and outtakes I’ve been showing you guys), but I’m waiting until The Last Four Years’ companion website is close to being completed to share them. You can expect them starting around May 20th, with a hesitant launch date for the site set for the 23rd.

  1. Camera: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT
  2. Aperture: f/3.5
  3. Exposure: 1/640th
  4. Focal Length: 37mm
  1. Date Posted Icon 27th April 2012
    2. Tags Icon #the last four years#at the end of world#photoblog
Death takes her tea. Preliminary edit for my Death & Delirium series for The Last Four Years. Model is Blayke Morrow.

Death takes her tea.

Preliminary edit for my Death & Delirium series for The Last Four Years. Model is Blayke Morrow.

  1. Camera: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT
  2. Aperture: f/3.5
  3. Exposure: 1/25th
  4. Focal Length: 37mm
  1. Date Posted Icon 26th April 2012
  2. Notes Icon Notes: 2
    3. Tags Icon #the last four years#tempus frangit#photoblog#Ashley McQuaid#The Sandman#Neil Gaiman#Death#photography
No dawn, no day. Experiment from The Last Four Years. Modeled by Devin Caskie.

No dawn, no day.

Experiment from The Last Four Years. Modeled by Devin Caskie.

  1. Camera: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT
  2. Aperture: f/6.3
  3. Exposure: 1/60th
  4. Focal Length: 78mm
  1. Date Posted Icon 20th April 2012
  2. Notes Icon Notes: 1
    3. Tags Icon #the last four years#falling star#devin caskie#photography#photoblog#Ashley McQuaid
just keep following the heartlines on your hands, because I am. Had another The Last Four Years shoot today.Probably my favorite thus far.

just keep following the heartlines on your hands, because I am.

Had another The Last Four Years shoot today.Probably my favorite thus far.

  1. Camera: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT
  2. Aperture: f/6.3
  3. Exposure: 1/40th
  4. Focal Length: 110mm
  1. Date Posted Icon 13th April 2012
  2. Notes Icon Notes: 1
    3. Tags Icon #the last four years#the heartlines#photoblog#photography#Ashley McQuaid
Got to shoot for “The Empty Crib” today with Maggie, Bryan, Halli, and Dan. 

Got to shoot for “The Empty Crib” today with Maggie, Bryan, Halli, and Dan. 

  1. Camera: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT
  2. Aperture: f/6.3
  3. Exposure: 1/160th
  4. Focal Length: 78mm
  1. Date Posted Icon 7th April 2012
    2. Tags Icon #the last four years#the empty crib#photoblog#photography#nature#sunlight
A color test from my shoot with Devin. The final set of images from this one will be a bunch of mixed media.

A color test from my shoot with Devin. The final set of images from this one will be a bunch of mixed media.

(Source: tenthmuse.net)

  1. Camera: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT
  2. Aperture: f/6.3
  3. Exposure: 1/30th
  4. Focal Length: 78mm
  1. Date Posted Icon 5th April 2012
  2. Notes Icon Notes: 1
    3. Tags Icon #the last four years#falling star#photoblog#wip#photography
outtake from my assisted self portrait shoot with Jesse today. derp.

outtake from my assisted self portrait shoot with Jesse today. derp.

  1. Camera: Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XT
  2. Aperture: f/6.3
  3. Exposure: 1/125th
  4. Focal Length: 59mm
  1. Date Posted Icon 5th April 2012
  2. Notes Icon Notes: 4
    3. Tags Icon #gpoy#photoblog#photography#the last four years#violent daylight