Dorothy's

I took these interiors to serve as a memory for both a good friend, and because the house looks as though its been left back in the 70's.

I find them fascinating.

'Sitting Room/Spare Bedroom'

'Helen's Room'

'Master Bedroom'

'Kitchen'

'Living Room'

Sam

These are few of the many photographs I took of Sam during the summer. Many many thanks for being such a reliant and compliant model!

These first two are 'Innocence' and 'Corruption'. Initially I was shooting the innocent one lying down so that it was composed similar to that of an ancient greek painting, however, in the end it turned out to work better this way.

'Innocence'

This second image represents 'Corruption', I shot it with the intention of it looking almost like someone out of a Dickens novel. I think because this is so contrasting to the first image in terms of the style of clothing and the models pose, the two photographs work well together.

'Corruption'

The next two images were shot, it could be said, as a very short narrative. The first showing someone cowering from the unusual green glow being emitted by his television, to being absorbed an fascinated by it through some unknown and unfightable attraction. The eerie green the television is glowing was actually natural, which really added to the scene.

'Cowering from the TV'

'Into the TV'

This final image was a bit of fun one night when Peter was in the area. I really like the grimey feel the dull colours and noise gives the image, which makes it work quite well even though the image is technically 'correct' in more ways then not.

'Sam and Pete at Poole Skate Park'

Our first brief this year was entitled 'A Picture is worth 1000 words'

'While one picture can do a lot, could it describe your entire day?

How about a part of your day?

We're about to find out.

You are asked to create a short series of three images that encapsulates part of your mornings, afternoons and evenings. Try to make each image as personal as possible.

This is to try to test your observational, compositional and narrative skills.

What you leave out of your image is almost as important as what you put in.'

The theme we are working on this year is 'RISK' and we have been asked to incorporate that into each of our projects. For me, working in the studio is taking a risk as I am much more preferable to using natural lighting in natural environments. Although I do enjoy being able to dictate the lighting, I am not a fan of setting up images to perfect, I would rather capture its reality.

With these images I tried to make them as simple as possible to that they would sit nicely together, this symbolises that my day to day activity is often quite plain and simple.

The composition of the frames is almost exactly the same, this is so that the hanging in light and of activity is highlighted and so that when displayed as a final set in a series, there is a strong, visible horizon line (the table) throughout the images so they are presented aesthetically.

With the use of the lights I tried to recreate that of daylight in terms of direction and strength. In my first image 'Morning' I have the light coming in the frame softly from the right (the East) to show the soft early morning light. As we move on to my second image, 'Noon' the light id much stronger and more head on (high in the sky, at its strongest and brightest at noon). And finally in my third image, 'Night' the light is more beamed from the right of the frame, thus showing the last rays of light (from the west).

Morning

Noon

Night

As they would be displayed

A64 Abandoned Service Stations

We went on a little mission to explore the villages and feilds surrounding the A64 between Bramham and York. On the way there, we stopped at this service station. It has been abandoned for some time now.

We took a bit of time to wander round, then went inside for a closer look. We didn't expect to find the service station complete with counters and display racks/fridges which made it a little bizarre, but i think it was the nesting pigeons that really added something to the place.

At the end of the day on the way back, we stopped at a different abandoned service station on the other side if the road. There wasn't as much lying around in this one, but I think the tones of the colours adds a little extra to the images.

Nuremberg

Like the London blog previously posted, these are just a few random shots from my short trip to Nuremberg.

Athough the British famously destroyed the city in the second world war as the Nazi's had decided to make Nuremberg their base camp, there is very little mention of it, and the buildings were made to look as they were, prewar. This made photographing the city quite interesting.

This was the back of a building next to my hotel. Though the soft tones in the black and white image, I think it almost makes feels like a mixture of a Walker Evans and an Alexander Rodchenko photograph.

This image on the other hand reminds me of something the early modernist Paris-based photographers Eugene Atget, Cartier-Bresson and Robert Doisneau. Not to say of course, that it is anywhere near their standards.

I took this image as I thought the Petrol had an almost epic feel to it, I think because its such a vast, dangerous thing thats been tucked away under a large building in the centre of a town.

Again, nothing special, I just like the way the photograph fades up in detail and light from the bottom of the photograph, the detail fades in a similar way.

This final photograph I like primarily because of its brightness and boldness.

London

These are a few photographs I took whilst down in London in July. I wouldn't say their anything special but there are a few images that would work well as part of a different set.

These were some workers repairing a roof in Camden Market

These kids looked as if they thought they were the A-Listers in Hollywood

The sky was nice, and the day was long

This quite amused me down on the South Bank

I thought these made an oddly cute couple in Camden sharing lunch on a curb

I thought this worker blended in and matched her backdrop really well

Her looking into the camera made a better image of her looking at her phone