Exploration and the likes

Well, I said Id try and keep this blog going with stuff and current projects although this post has been a little overdue. Ive been working mainly in film in the last couple of weeks (35mm, 120 AND 5x4 which is just plain beautiful) so scanning is a little more time consuming.

The last couple of weeks, along with alfie and sean Ive explored some old abandoned buildings around Nottingham, all really fascinating. The above being an abandoned pub, walls all around dappled with light streaming from the city lights outside, both eerie and intriguing. Sean did a fantastic long exposure on large format whilst alfie did something reminscent of an old horror flick with masterful flash work.

This porject at uni Im working on place which is still developing and evolving...but more on that to come...

running dry

I thought this was a fitting image for the final in the series. A tunner vision view as I drink the last of the water from my drink. Symbolising my ideas for the project running dry, look closely at the bottom of the glass and we see Pink Floyd poster echo-ing the famous Munch scream. Kinda symbolises the despair you feel when you can think of a decent idea I think. oooh its all about the symbolism today!

Just to say also, I do plan/hope to carry on with this blog as I hope others may do. I think its been very iteresting to see what other people are doing generally/for other projects.

fashion

Im afriad today I dont have a clever photoshop or an interesting view for you. I think Ive run out of steam with this project, there were a couple of ideas I thought to try, but to be honest they wernt very interesting or clever. I try to avoid posting a photo for the sake of posting a photo, Id rather post a photo which I find interesting in one way or another. (that probs didnt make too much sense) Anyway I think, for me at least, this has been one of the best projects in terms of pushing you and keeping you going. Putting a fresh photo on everyday whilst trying to fit it to a theme has been a good challenge and Its definately got me photographing more.

Also ive chosen the ones for my final selection, got 3 printed off today. Of course I shall get the rest printed tomorrow. There does seem to be somewhat of a green tinge to one of them - although it seems to correct itself under tungsten glow of my room. If others are looking to print I think I saw a poster in the toilet in bonnington (as you do) advertising 6 A2 sheets for a tenner - of course I notice this AFTER ive got them printed elsewhere...but such is life.

Anyway, the above. This was from last night, I was photographing a dress for a flatmate which she had made for her project. It was taken in my living room with a bowens portaflash (that porta bit should be illegal for misrepresentation or something - Im sure they make lighter cars) Saying that it did the job, perhaps a little to well. Im not the most experianced in the studio, but white on white im sure isnt the easiest regardless - I had quite a few problems with bleaching on the dress. Basically there wasnt enough space for the model to move away from the wall (and light projecting onto the back wall) Still, its always good to set yourself a challenge...

cameras-eye view

Camera's eye view out my window. A little bit of a bugger to expose. The Slr's lenses were too big to show just the viewfinder - as you can imagine. So this was taken on my ikkle ixus (canon compact) as the small lens was small enough to fit in the viewfinder. The only problem was, to get the detail on the readout at the bottom I had to whack up the ISO giving a load of noise. Im yet to decide whether adds or detracts from the image. I quite like the desaturated and slightly distorted view though.

My rooms on the top floor of my flats and you get some alrite views over the city, this is just a little bit singled out. Its sometimes nice to daze out and contemplate....

the awakening

Anyone who has crappy eye sight can most likely recognise this from the early stages of awakening, those who dont..well...hopefull this will give an insight. Without lenses of some kind I cant even read my alarm clock from my pillow - someone should invent one with foot-high numerals, they really should.

Carrying on with Hugh suggestion to carry along with the trend of the more composed images being those more successful I used photoshop once again with this. It was actually all from one photo, but I had problems with the black from the rims of the glasses smudging. So I had to play around with cutting and masking on a new layer and the smudge tool. I think I got pretty close to what I wanted - though Its going to need quite a lot of work for the big a3 prints :-s

My brains runnign dry on idea's once again, being confined to my room with this ankle (which god has directed all his angst at blatently) Itll be pictures from round the flat. Hopefully God will give me a ray of inspiration (I think he owes me one!) - not that Im religious or anything..