The Start Of Something New

With in the last week of the easter break I have some studio time booked; to enable me and a close friend to try and grasp hold of new ideas and turn them into some eye catching photography. This will possibly be displayed as final work within the end of year exhibition...who knows?

I feel like recently my ideas have been strained but I hope with plenty of preparation that the current ideas I hold; will turn out better than I can imagine. I am hoping to stay within my still life genre but rather than take on more beauty and fashion items, look at fast food and turn that debate into an eye catching selection of work. Once I have an idea; then I feel like I get bombarded with different variations that I could try; so this is the opportunity to embrace it and try turning out as many images as possible...in the hope that at least one is exhibition worthy.

Bigger And Better Things

This week I had some work experience; helping on a John Lewis shoot incorporating Dualit products.
This one was so different from what I had previously experienced with Jonathan Pollock before and I was excited to try something new.
The shoot consisted of a whole chrome family of products from the Dualit range. We had a large set with white floor boards and stacked crates and coloured boxes to hold the products inside. The overall look of the shoot was amazing and it inspired me to try bigger and better things on some future shoots some time. The images are going to be distributed all around the UK in John Lewis shops and I cant wait to walk down the street and see them hanging from the windows.
Being able to assist on large scale shoots such as this one; just gets me more excited to hopefully work in this industry one day.

A New Sequel

Since a young age I have always been gripped by the cinema! I find the never ending stream of new releases fascinating and even when films that are of no interest to me; I still wonder how the idea started for the writer.

This week I am determined to see The Hunger Games. It's a big release globally and there seems to be a lot of hype surrounding it so I think its worth a watch. Some people are talking about it being as big as the Twilight Saga...if i'm honest I think it has the potential but the Twilight films will always be in a league of their own.

I always go to the cinema and sit there waiting for the film to start; thinking how much I would love to be involved in it somehow. The creation of someones small idea, turning into a blockbuster hit, with so many people seeing it, amazes me! I guess when I go and see this film I will be thinking it all over again.

A Tangled Web of Wire

Today I constructed a photo shoot to try and continue my portfolio development. I was trying to continue with my theme of desirable objects. I wanted to try and include the style of lighting from Oliver Trillon; so therefore I brought several coloured gels to try and create a stage lighting affect. In the end I used just red and blue lighting in the final images but I felt as though this worked well in the end.
The wire was a final touch of the image; and my way of expressing the idea that music should be protected from the rising number of illegal copying and poor replica's of such music accessories just like these Beats Headphones.

Here are some of the final images from my photo shoot... I also used these in a trial for our exhibition poster and was really happy with the outcome of this.

I liked the image I used; along side the style of font and layout. I hope I can input some of these ideas onto our final poster. I am really excited to see the final product of our collective exhibition

A Stroke of Genius

This weekend I visited Tyler Shield's Beyond The Gates exhibition in London. All I can say is WOW!
I was so inspired before even going to see his work in person; but when I got there the size and quality of the images was stunning. There were plenty of images I recognised from my constant scanning of his website and so I felt as though I knew and understood the work I was looking at.
If I have the amount of money spare that it would cost to buy one of his prints then I would certainly jump at the chance to hang one on my wall.
As well as being taken in by the work itself; It also really helping in my planning for our own end of year exhibition. I was originally going to place my images on foam board before mounting on the gallery walls. However after looking at the way Tyler Shield's work looked in large black box frames completely changed my mind. With the type of images I can imagine displaying I think having these striking frames would help to draw them out from the already white walls.

Time For An Exhibition

This week feels like it has been my most hectic. Our entire group went to visit various gallery spaces on tuesday to see which ones would be perfect for holding our end of year exhibition.
With the options being Guildford House Gallery, Farnham Maltings or South Hill Park we set off tuesday morning to visit as many as possible. South Hill Park surprised me a lot! I loved the grand house that the art centre is set in and the grounds surrounding it too. We managed to get into the currently closed gallery space and it was impressive. The space was modern; large and professional. I was a little daunted by the large space we have on offer and creating enough good work from my collection to show there; but I hope over the coming months I will feel that my work is worthy of the wall space.
Guildford House Gallery had the ideal location but the gallery itself was just too small; which was a shame as I like the idea of holding the exhibition there. But after emails and talks about where to hold it, we decided on South Hill Park and to our surprise; there was one week left in June available. We were very lucky as the arts centre is booked up a whole year in advance!
I can't believe that it has been two years already and we are coming to the end of our course. I am terrified by the idea of displaying our work for everyone to see and judge. Including any relevant commercial photographers who may be invited and actually come to the private viewing. There is nothing more than I want, than to be able to hold my own stand alone exhibition one day and prestigious photographers come and cast an eye over my work, but getting to that point is going to be a long and hard battle as the commercial industry is ever growing and harder for new photographers to get into.

Trolls

So this week I was informed that we had to have decided what we wanted to shoot in order to present a book at the end of this module.
I am normally the type of person that tries to take my projects on board and photograph objects or still life that can help build up a commercial portfolio. However for this particular project I have decided to photograph something fun and completely different from all my other work... Dam Trolls.
For those who are unsure of what these are then I have included a picture of one in this post. They were very popular when I was younger and I did have a few if I remember correctly. Although looking at them now; I tend to find them very creepy and strange. I cannot imagine someone collecting such an object; but people do and they can be worth a lot of money together. So this is why I have chosen to make a collection of all the dam trolls I can get my hands on and present them as quirky and unique objects making up an easy/fun style of photography book.
I often see so many serious pieces of work but never as many fun and just edgy styles. Why not explore and have fun with the medium of photography, you never know what you may come up with!