Long time..

Its been a year that I haven't been on here, i'm sorry for not being around, updates with what I have been doing are, I have now finished my second year of my BA Hons photography degree and I am going forward to the third year in september, I am currently in the process of moving away from home, and I am researching to find out what photographer I really want to be.
over the next few weeks I will be looking into what I am passionate about within photography, and why I love to take the photographs that matter

New toys

Managed to get some new equipment for my editing of work very happy with it. Haven't had a day without being on it editing or just playing with photoshop :)
Watch this space! New things to come your way!

New Work!!

Been working on some personal best work this week, made one of my good friends to model for me and managed to involved the family and the dog! :) had fun just using the studio and just experimenting. Even had the chance to model for a simple photo shoot.

By Niki Hanna

(Me being in front of the camera, instead of behind it!)

Not been Around

Over the last couple of weeks i haven't been able to get on to here because of personal reasons, but i now i am back and heres a quick update on my photography so far

my book  cover project seems to be going well lots of image making on seductive powerful women as the book i am doing is La Grosse Fifi by Jean Rhys,

These are just to styles i have tried for this project, these are for the book covers and i will be doing some author portraits in the studio and on location.

New Page

I have started a new module for uni on curating . This page will follow my work within this module, and visits to gallery's. I chose curating as I have had an interest to how series of works in galleries, are put together to work along side each other. Hope you can learn a little from this page and get a greater understanding of what galleries do for your enjoyment.

What i have been up too!!

So the last couple of weeks i have been finishing coursework for deadlines and so took a trip to London with uni.

London was amazing, the main things that stuck out for me was going to The Photographers gallery and the V&A. The Photographers gallery was interesting as they had some of Andy Warhol's work, some of it i thought was great the way he stitched the photos together and having six of the same image but different exposures then stitched together was good too. but some of his work just looked like he got bored one day and took photos of random objects

The V&A was a great experience, as we got to go into the print room to see and hold the real prints. this was really interesting to see the real things instead of them on a computer screen.

The whole trip was a good experience and i will be going back some time this year to take photos as London skyline at night is beautiful!!

Deadline

Deadline for making strange today, will be presenting my work to my group. Feeling nervous about talking in front of everyone. Hopefully everthing goes well!!

Annie Leibovitz - Disney Dream Portraits

i have been looking at Annie Leibovitz work - Disney Dream Portraits. i find the images inspiring on how creative within camera and out of the camera in Photoshop they are, i am a big Disney fan and have loved the films they make so when i saw that Annie Leibovitz  had made some images on these film i find they do the films justice.

These are just a few from the series..

 This last one is a real favorite of mine as it show the wonder and craziness of Alice in wonderland. each photo show the base of the story and personalities of the celebrities within the image.

The new year

I hope everyone has had a great Christmas, and is looking forward to the new year, i know i am. great things to come i am going to London with Plymouth college of art, in January, will be visiting places like the V&A and the Tate modern gallery. I will be planning many trips to different places for photos that all of you will be able to hear about soon and i will be finishing my first year at the college and going into the second. I am going to make this year great and one to remember!!

Christmas

"It's true, Christmas can feel like a lot of work, particularly for mothers. But when you look back on all the Christmases in your life, you'll find you've created family traditions and lasting memories. Those memories, good and bad, are really what help to keep a family together over the long haul." - Caroline Kennedy 

Merry Christmas Everyone!!

Update on 'Making strange'

Over the last couple of weeks i have been very busy making test prints for my project. when shooting film i have done some shots on digital just get an idea on what the films might look like. These i think went well, the theme for the project is body form and reflection. So the first photo shoot was just basic reflection with body form.

This is just one of many that i like from this shoot.

 

Thank you to Nicola Hanna for being my model.

Processing and Contact Sheets

So today was filled with doing contact sheets and processing, doing the contact sheets was good, I have done them before but never at Plymouth college of art. Whilst doing the contact sheets I realised that a few shoots I took for my making strange project were slightly under exposed but all in all the photos look good I am happy with the idea and composition of them. After seeing my progress I processed the new two rolls of film I took on Saturday, location with body form and reflection, and close ups of body forms with reflections. They processed nicely and came out well even if I did miss my bus home. Next step, contact sheets for the new negatives. 

The process room at P.C.A

Progress

This weekend has been a busy one, yesterday I shot two rolls of black and white film 36 exposures, for my making strange project, Nikki the model was amazing she had to put up the cold and a little rain while we were outside doing semi-nude location shoots. Can't wait to process them, and do contact sheets.
And today was collecting names, of people who could help me with my personal best project.

Coursework

Today has been all about my project and doing more research also doing professional practise looking at digital retouching. Seen some great work that has given me some ideas for my project and seen some work that I feel has effected the world because the way retouching changes peoples looks.

Two different topics, two very different views on them.

Research for Making Strange Project

For the last few days  i have been researching for my making strange project, the people a have been looking at are Ansel Adams for the tonal range, Trent Parke because of the use of perspective and tonal economy within his images. these two are just two out of many, i picked these two because i feel that within anyone's photography career you have to see or read about these photographers.

Ansel Adams has great tonal range in his images alongside the composition.

Proactive day

Today i saw a dear friend of mine Niki Hanna, who is also studying photography. It was nice to discuss and reflect on the photographers we had/are studying, she was able to help and open my mind to some ideas for a upcoming  project which you will all see soon!. One photographer that was coming up in discussion was Steve McCurry and his photo Afghan Girl. Our discussion was mainly about if really this is the Afghan girl after 17 years, as even thou it says that it is her, Steve McCurry was never 100% sure. We decide it very well could be, after talking for awhile about this subject i ended up buying the latest and photography issue of national geographic celebrating 125 years!! i recommend getting this issue!!

Believe

"People want to believe the camera never lies but in some cases it does" - Alison Rich 

Documentary

so end of last week beginning of this week i was ill and missed two very important lectures, first was a contextual on documentary and the second one was a visual practice, looking at the documentary power-point that was shown i noticed some familiar photographers name like Don mccullin and Rodger fenton. The lecture was mainly about how some documentary photographers changed the truth when people believe the saying "the camera never lies" the image that caught my interest was  The home of the rebel sharpshooter, Gettysburg

This image has been manipulated by the person was moved from where they had died to point and had their face move to face the camera, the gun was changed and placed in a way that seems very unnatural because if it was in the person hand when he died it would not have landed in this way. 

New start, New blog

I have started this blog so you can follow me in becoming a professional photographer, it wont be easy and i know i am going to struggle but hopefully we'll get through it together and get to be who we want to be.