portraits using studio lights

For our next assignment we are using studio lights to take portrait picture using different setting both on the studio lights and on the camera changing shutter speed and aperature i was please with some of the results

and produced some good shots to use for the final work and produced a contact sheet to use as reference 

my most recent purchase was a nikon sb700 speedlight 

which i used to take the follow picture and produce a contact sheet

For our next assignment at college we where to take portraits using a film camera and use a light meter something we hadnt done yet i decided to shoot on colour film and took some pictures in college of the other students and our tutor natalie . I then took time to take more portraits of my partner in a local park battling with the light i can out with 5 shotts to use printed on 6x4 i am also going to get a couple of enlargements

i have also researched portrait photographer joe mc nally /david bailey and rankin and have included this in my work book

portrait timings

TIMINGS FOR PORTRAITS 

for the last week i have been spending alot of time watching the timing of sunset and working out which is the best time before at and after sunset to take a portrait from the  information gathered i produced a contact sheet recorded at what time each picture was taken and  what settings had been used

i took pictures on two separate days once outside a local pub and once in oulton broads and the park to get different subjects and different area some with more sunset than others

mental health photography

as most people know i suffer from depression and anxiety and i was given a bit of a challenge by my mental health team it was to take picture of local places that people with mental health could go to be safe also places to study as a good distraction .i spent the day taking pictures and then produced a book from the pictures added information and google maps for each picture 

i also went to a open day for mental health co-production took pictures and produced a power point presentation 

im hoping that doing these things will help others and be good experience for my future in photography 

Passed level 3 award in photogrpahy and the start of level 3 certificate

After a anxious week off waiting for the results of my work i had handed in for marking I'm please to say Ive passed the award in photography and have signed up and started a certificate in photography course

The first week this week was looking at analog photo montage we where given 45 minutes to come up with a montage using pictures either found online or on our camera i choose to do one about transport through the ages which turned out OK well for a first practise anyway

now for the hard work of doing a photo montage using film photography pictures been doing alot of research and come up with a couple of idea will see how it turns out

Well after some thought i came up with the idea of a family tree photo montage so found alot of old pictures and added some new ones and it came out like this

The next part of the course is to produce a photomontage in digital format for this i decided to take a trip to Norwich and go shooting the history of norwich from this i produced a contact sheet and produced a draft format of the imagines i had taken .

We had a photoshop lesson where i picked up some idea for the finished project
i then spent time at home with photoshop to complete my project using old and new images and added some text and it turned out like this

 

 

After producing the montage above i spent alot of time finding research of digital montage

this was actually difficult to do as there is alot information on analog montage but even though photoshop is widely used these day not many people have written about it . I also wanted to document the history of the building i took pictures of and how i wanted to bring nature and transport into the finished item

 

new books as a added project

After finishing my risk assignment i was given a project to take pictures around the college with my nikon digital camera the choose pictures to print i choose a total of 20 pictures and decided to produce two books

one containing picture of the college and art produced by other student and also a booklet about student support and some of the help on offer 

studio photography

after finishing my risk assignment i decided i wanted to try using the studio lighting to learn how to adjust the lighting and settings on the camera after a few goes found that setting the apperature camera to f20 - f25
was a good way to reduce the shadows and get some good results below are some of the results

risk assignment

for our last assignment we where given a assignment of risk where taking pictures with a risk element which could be a way it was taken or present of risk subject .i immediately thought of doing a depression awareness photos a subject close to my heart as i have suffered this for the last 6 years. While doing research i decided to make a book explaining to others the daily struggle of depression it took me along time to come up with the right pictures and text for the subject also while researching i found there is alot of links between mental health and photography ranging from therapeutic photography to it being used as a way to diagnose mental health by a psychiatrist in the past although this wasn't used much

This has been a extremely interesting subject and a very personal journey for myself also while researching i found out about art photography and came across Damien Hirst a artist using pills as a art form
something i found interesting and it was link to use

I also found out that there is another 11 weeks courses available which I'm hoping to do so watch this space

pictures taken for the environment assignment

For our Xmas assignment we had a topic of environment i thought long and hard about what i was going to do and decided on using the environment i live in which is lowestoft in Suffolk

The pictures i took was of of a a local wind turbine this is the biggest turbine in the UK
named by the locals as Gulliver's

The other subjects i choose to use was NESS POINT  in lowestoft which is uk most easterly point

I also took pictures of trinity house lighthouse

will be looking forward to see what others in the class have choosen