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..

Reflections

This afternoon I hobbled painfully to the NHS 'walk' in centre, Why do they put a walk in centre in the middle of an industrial estate away from any kind of public transport? Is it like some kind of weird joke on the 'differently' able with no cars. After (suprisingly speedy) hour wait the nurse told me that Id been walking too much - no sh*t! and that the painkillers I was usuing wouldnt work on me - fan-friggin-tastic! (Apparently this certain kind of pain killers only works on 2/3's of the population - whilst the rest arnt supposed feel pain or something?) Needless to say I want in the best of forms on collapsing into bed arriving home, in an emotional (frustrated) state. So I aplogise for my rant and grumblings, but it helps...

To the photo...! The workgroup this afternoon kinda flummoxed me a little, I needed some new Idea's but then thats easier said than done, as Im sure all of you know. Im happy with the ones in the mirror, although there only so much you can do infront of a mirror (Ill let you interpret that how you like) So I thought the thing linking them together was reflection, a few idea's emerged. One was for a reflection in a store front, although on my lonesome its difficult to get the second head to toe shot, so Ill give that one a go another time, i wanted to try something in the bathroom with reflection in water - then I looked at my bathroom. A dark dingy dank hole and realised it probably wouldnt work, no joy there then.

Reminiscing on old times in a snooze, I came up with this. I wanted to try and represent memories here, which is really rather difficult. So with the aid of photos littering my wall I used these and tried to re-enact the reflection of my face from the gloss of the prints. I took one photo of the photos and another of myself. I used a mask to cut out all of my face except for the bits reflected by the photo. Those parts not masked I blurred to try and immitate the certain lack of defition in our memories.

Im not 100% on this one, also can people let me know if you cant see it on your screens.. I wanted it to appear faded. Hopefully I shall think of some more fruitful Idea's over the weekend..

Shadow of a slice of time being sliced

Whilst most were snuggled up infront of a warm tele or around a pint in a nice cosy pub, Sean Alfie and myself did a little exploring. One thing which the project has helped up (and encouraged us) to do is to take more photos, in turn Ive found myself doing a little more exploration around the city. On our ramblinging tonight we found what looked to be an old depot of some sorts. Quite interesting with chimneys towering behind. I mainly took photo's on film (I only ended up taking 4 photos - but thats not the point) so unfortunately I dont have any to stick on here at the mo.

Most of today Ive been spending developing and scanning film, and Im kicking myself a little for not taking more photos of thsi everyday task. Anyway I thought it appropriate to get a picture (indirectly) of myself taking a photo..

Guitar Hero...

Well, probs not so much to the hero...Ive been playing averagely for about 9 years or something. Im not very good to be honest, but I play it for enjoyment as opposed to 'show off.' I tend to fidget when I get bored and theres nothing better than a musical instrument to fidget with. I mainly play when watchin tv or listnin to music, its very relaxing and enjoyable. You can blast out some rage with rage or chill with some chilli peppers. (see what i did there?)

This was a bit of a bitch to photograph, to put it bluntly. In ways harder than the contact lens one. I ended up jammin the camera under my chin whilst wrapping the straps round my neck. Giving me the chance of suffocating myself in the first camera related death...