Noir

(not that bellend off mightyboosh)

Been falling behind with some high end stuff, had my creative review crit today was pretty good,just need to carry on and get some more solid projects down.

So heres some new stuff from a shoot last night, carrying on from that shot with the car under the street lamp.

Takes a very 50's detective feel, still unsure about it but it will probs be my final piece for a site and spacial project.

I'm still indecisive about if text should be included or not, a written narrative depicting a monologue said by the female protagonist who features in 2 pictures.

using long shutter speeds at night with people in can be tricky, a way i got around this was by shooting silhouettes, this also gives a really nice atmosphere.

Antique

The the first 2 films off my Mamiya range finder came home today, for a camera from 1972 (the year my hasselblad was made) that has been bashed around in antique shops for years and year it aint half bad.


Range finders are tricky to use, i find this one real easy though, feels good in my hands. I still prefer using my external light meter to the ttl one (one thats built into the camera) but it's allll good. :]

I also tried microwaving a 35m film canister then shooting the film. Weirdly enough it had no effect. I later realized i could of blown the microwave up putting metal things in it, :(

New additions

Got some interesting stuff coming up next few days, shoot tonight with Johnny, Creative review talk tomorrow and London for the weekend, scary stuff.

My Hasselblad is in repairs and will be out of action for at least a week, i figured why its in there i may aswell get it serviced so it'll come back brand new :]]!

Anyways when i dropped my hassy off in the repair town i hit some local charity and antiques shops and found found these 3 camera gems!.

Box Brownie, Mamiya Crown and a Ilford Sportsman, all in working condition! I'll post up some results for the shoots with those later, and i'll post some stuff from tonights shoots soon as possible!

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Crit

I had a crit today (when a group get together and talk about work) and found out alot of my pictures lack contextual meaning, which is going to have a impact.

I can't name 10 artists and 3 books and a poem about my photos, i guess my fashion stuff is just as you see it.

When i walked away though i kinda felt like i didn;t serve my images with full justice, they DO have meaning, i was just almost too scared to tell them the concept behind them.

I'll get better at it, it was a great session and i took alot away from it, aswell as new concepts for images.

In other news my hasselblad is broken! the last problem is back and now i need to go get it fixed which i will do Wednesday :[


In the mean time heres a few holga images i've been busting out!

All done by flipping the camera. :]

Urgh...

Noo ideaaaa :[[[!

Selective

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Big week this week,

London weekend for seminars held at the Cultivate festival, Friday a meeting with art magazine Creative Reviews editor. OOOOOERR :]


I know I'll only be getting 10 minuet max on Friday with the editor, i want him to know my life story in images so how do we do it?

We love our work and want to show everyone everything but we can't.

I like 1 image a minute approach but i still have no idea what to show, a mix of new and old can show inconsistency, its not a show of how much you;ve improved but a show of who you are at that current moment in time.

Hard stuff right, one right image in the right review can boost a career, a bad one can set you back.

Tomorrow I'm taking the day off and just plan to look at my body of work and hopefully the right ones will come out.

Check out the creative review website! : Here

Pola-nerd

me and my holgaroid

Right we all love Polaroids right?

in the "lalala look at me with my Polaroid camera at your party"


I met Kristof Dillinger today, a guys who leading the way in experimental photography and the guy lent me his Holga Polaroid back loaded with film (thats really fooking expensive now) so i ran off out shooting around uni.

Weird vignetting :/

Double Exposure

Its always cool to play with film your not paying for, so i started to over crank up the overlays and creating shapes.

Quad Exposure

We tried some pola-transfers, when you take a picture let the Polaroid develop for a few seconds then slap it open onto paper or any surface and roll it on so you get a cool transfer, didn't work for us for some reason! ah well. :[

B-side

I'm 19 now :[[[

Anyways it figures that the day after i turn 19 i get my first feature and gallery

Click Here
(Thanks jen)

The guys over at B-side empire were fans of the work and liked it enough to feature me on the launch of there website along with some other great artists,


A start of things to come right, pictures from the exhibition will be up as soon as i get hold of em.

Go check it out!

xx

CyanAtype

Quick post,


I don't put anything about my uni life on here but this was fun.... ish.


The CyanAtype is basically a UV sensitive chemical that photographers use to create prints (Google it).

People use the method to create prints onto everything, paper, metal, walls, skin.

Skin. :]

I painted my back in the chemical and got my self a large Monroe negative and had it duck taped to my back and ran out into the sun,

it didn't work and this post is all but pointless, but hell was fun. :]
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Whats next?

I don't know? Its 50-50 shall i book more shoots or really focus on the uni work, cos its getting intense but we'll see. The next few projects will be on location more, guess i just need some outdoor portable lighting right.

The images from the past 2 shoots are coming out great, i'll be pricing them up soon to see how many i can print for my portfolio.

Something i'll be putting up soon is a project im doing called FabricScapes, watch this space :]

x

Break down at Tiffanys

Okay so the second booked shoot was today and it was great, not a single problem which is crazy for a shoot,

This one had been in talks for awhile with the model Susan and the makeup artist Becky so we all knew what to do,



The shoot was alll about the Hepburn ya know sexy retro style but with all the right pinup elements but all along i wanted to break the mold abit so i got thinking about some sort of over emotional shots, that soon became "Breakdown at Tiffany's" (nice right?)


I wont bore you with all the detail ect ect ect but again it was great, the make up artist nailed the look totally!

But the thing is, when a girl has spent 2 hours in hair and make up and then i tell her she need to trash it for the second section of the shoot, i didnt now how she would react but she was totally up for it!

Colder tones were used in the sadder shots, give it that WTF POOR LASS style ya know?


All these images are a work in progress for the full set just ask!

Also now my hasselblad is a sex symbol :] :

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What i do best

Finally finished the firth sloth of uni work (well finished thinking about doing it, i've yet to start) and was time for me to nail some new fashion work.

Thats my buddy Charlotte modeling and she was great!

Anyways i know how to do a studio set up, basic to more advanced so it never takes me too long to set up. I find its always good to leave some time to tweak lighting and stuff before the model arrives.

SO its like 20 mins before im meeting my model and i take a final set up shot with my blad and BANG, mirrors broken in it. Most severe thing that can happen.

Tester boobs lolz

Right blah blah panic blah blah...

and guess what> the fucking thing fixed its self AGAIN. How long till it dies you ask? never :]

The shoot didn't have a theme, not a lot of planning, we just showed up and make some frames and it worked. The full set will be in my portfolio soon enough so if you want to see them just ask!

All shots: 100 iso - 125/1 - f.8

Shoot tomorrow too! hope it goes welll

Snow round 2. part 2 :o

So I'm defeated, pretty unsuccessful shoot but all i lost was a roll of film so who cares right? now i relax back down after healing my blad back to full health and finally relax on my day off, read up on whats going on in the imaging world so on so forth, very relaxed

To calm my self down fully i needed to have some sweet negatives in my hand or i'd end up night time shooting agaiiin. My hasselblad needs a day off and I'm not touching my digital, only one camera left right?

It was ALL about the holga.

All images were 1/125 - 100iso - f. 10

Sexy

Snow round 2. part 1 :o

Lucas :]

:|


My buddy lucas texts me pretty late a few days ago and asked if i wanted to head out shooting with him for a new uni project we just got, i'll never turn down a shoot with a friend so we planned to set off real early the next day.

Blah blah blah right?

So its snowing like a mother fucker, looks like were in Siberia not Wolverhampton and we travel down to a canal.. blah blah blah

So i set up the Hasselblad with a sweet 40m wide lens on it, probably the greatest photographic lens ever crafted, shame the uni lets all the students piss all over it, i wasn't at all hesitant to set up knowing Hasselblads could survive anything this planet throws at them.



So i'm shooting and metering blah blah and take a few shots and move through the area and i look down into my view finder to see his horrible fucking scratch,

Let me tell you now, wasn't even a good scratch, like what a man does to an animal..

..

Was a weird scratch and looked perfect, looked like it ripped a layer of coating off the view finder because i could see right down into my camera. HORRIBLE. Couldn't get my head around it and my heart went and i just wanted to take my camera home and nurse it back to health. For me the shoot was over.

wtf://

I assisted Lucas and kept my camera out 10 minuets later i pop the view finder back up to see the scratch has grown and is now creating a perfect circle around my view finder, It hit me now the snow had melted on my screen and water logged it totally. but from the looks of it it was never going to work again. GUTTED.

Can't be botherd to type the rest of the adventure out but got home, dryed the view finder out, was okay :} yay

Why are there no scans from the film i took you ask? because i carved words into them with a cork screw as they dried and now there in the bin. unlucky :p