Long time, no see!

Hello there!

Well, it has indeed been a while! This site has changed a lot and I have a lot of news to share! First off, Happy New Year everybody! I hope you have an amazing year ahead :) Okay so a quick run-through of what I've been up to since my last post....College. I have finished college now, my end result was Distinction, Merit, Merit! I think I could have done better, but there was an unnatural number of negative incidents throughout my first year which threw me off a bit! Still, I'm pretty pleased. Following that, I got my first DSLR just after leaving college. Very happy with it, it's a Nikon D5100, and it's now my baby. Any guesses what I want to be when I grow up? Following this, in my spare time I have mostly been learning photography (Bingo!) because college didn't teach me that much about actually using cameras. I was jobless for a while, but now I have a nice little job at a new Costa store! This has allowed me to invest in a brand new lens for myself for Christmas, which should be arriving in a couple of days! :) I have already arranged two paid wedding shoots for the summer of this year, which is absolutely incredible! I seem to be getting a lot of positive feedback all round. So basically it's all going pretty damn good for me right now.

I'll be honest, the most active profiles are my Flickr and Facebook ones, and there will be more photos on my Facebook page due to not having a limit, but I do try and keep my Twitter and Tumblr active. I will also be working harder to keep this blog active, as it's a much easier way to share any advice I can give with the rest of the world :) Unfortunately, I can't seem to get links to work. When I can, I will post the link to my Twitter, Flickr, Facebook and Tumblr pages. I hoped you enjoyed reading my blog, I'm going to try and upload a couple of shots form my 2012 work, enjoy!

While I'm Here...

I'll upload some of my portrait shots so there's more on here to see..

.. :) <3

Hello again.

It's been quite a while since I updated this o.0 guess I should keep it going!
Seems silly when I have so few followers, but I'll expand when I've got more work to show!

So, went out with 3 of my mates the other day to Pinmill, Shotley and just under the Orwell Bridge...Here are some of the photos :D

It was a l

It was an amazing day, full of sunshine :) <3

Digital Art an Design

For Digital Art and Design, we were given the probject of using photoshop to turn some concrete images into some abstract images. to do this we used various tools such as the rubber tool, threshold tool, colourize tool and many others.

Here are two examples of my finished work.

The one above I like because of the contract between the bold green and red colours as well as the textures involved.

This one I like because it's very bright but at the same time there's a lot of white and black which helps the colours stand out and by varying the sizes it works.

Photography Research

Justin Quinnell

Justin Quinnell is quite famous for his pinhole photography. His most famous project could possibly be his recordings over Bristol.

In December 2007, he strapped a home-made pinhole camera made from a coke can to a telephone pole overlooking the Brunel Bridge structure. He took the camera down in June 2008 to develop and fix the light sensitive photographic paper he used, and here is the image he found.

The lines over the bridge the the impressions of light that the sun left on the paper.

Justin has made various different pinhole cameras out of various different objects, such as a wheely bin. Another famous project of his was to use a pinhole camera small enough to fin in his mouth to record things that happened.

His work has been so famous, it's inspired a film maker to create a film involving the concept of pinhole cameras.














Peter Donahoe
Peter Donahoe took a different approach to pinhole cameras. He has been involved with photography overall for over 40 years and started out by doing small group exhibitions in Manhattan and Brooklyn in the 70's and 80's. When he started his career, he worked in a fashion studio, and later did some police photography.

He started looking at pinhole and decided to do a project on agriculture which featured the 18 towns in Columbia. He uses pinhole cameras in this project as a private rebellion against the ever changing and developing digital world, which reflects perfectly the idea of the project, which was to photograph old silo's, barns and other old farming equipment as it's something else that is changing and being modernised. A lot of the things he photographed went on to be demolished or re-built and upgraded. Throughout this project, Donahoe used a long exposure time in order to capture the movement of the trees, water and sky against the solid, unmoving barns, silo's and equipment.

Bethany De Forest
Bethany de Forest was born in the USA but moved to Holland when she was just four. When she was 18, she moved to Amsterdam to study, and this is where she came across pinhole cameras.

She is perhaps my favourite pinhole artist of the three because she uses colour, and fantasy worlds, which I think definitely adds to it. She likes to create fairy-tale scenarios, which she makes out of a collection of house hold materials. She uses pinhole photography with this because she feels as though it gives the photo another dimension that digital photography couldn't provide. Instead of looking at a photograph of a beautiful scenery someone has create, you feel as though you are in the scenery. She uses mirrors with her scenery's to create the impression that they're more spacious than they are, but because the mirrors would reflect the camera, she also creates the scenery so the camera is a part of it.

Photography

So, we've been asked to create a blog for photography to display all our work. Below you will see the 6 negative images I took using a pinhole camera down the right hand side of the two images. the other pictures are the result after scanning the photo's into the computer and using photoshop to rotate and invert the images so they were the right way round and positive images.

here are my first three negatives and the results.

here are the second three images and the results.