"Are you smoking yet?"

The theme for this week's assignment was smoking.  Among several black and white portraits, I also had to create two ads - one pro and one anti smoking.  Granted, graphic design is not my strong point and I don't have an incredible eye for advertising.  All the same, I kind of like how they turned out and I thought I would share.


The first one was actually surprisingly easy to shoot - I created an 8" studio in my apartment!  All I did was place an apple on a sheet of white paper with a light shining through from the other side for diffusion.  I had one lightbulb from a lamp shining down from about five feet above.  And that was it!  So easy!


The second one took a bit more work and obviously some post work.  The other photos for this assignment were not photoshop-intensive, just curves adjustments, really.  But the ads were allowed to be edited, so I thought I'd have some fun.  We had to make up a brand name, and since I don't smoke, I wasn't really sure what to use, so I made something that hopefully works with the image.  What do y'all think?