"Call me Stella"

For the past two months we have been working towards our final major project at college. For my project I deiced to document my mother and her relationship with alcohol. Inspired by Deidre O'Callaghan I was to document things about the place as well as my mothers day-to-day life. This wasn't an easy project for me, and I found it quite hard however, these are the results. 

Redeemer Nightclub, Leicester

The photographs below were taken at Redeemer Nightclub in Leicester. I've been working there for almost a year now and below are just a few of what I've done. Nightclub photography isn't my type at all, but I mainly went into it for the experience, with this gaining a huge amount of confidence at the same time. The photo's look like they might be point and shoot, but that's where its different, every club is different. Redeemer in particular is very dark and has a lot of coloured lights as well as smoke machines, for a photographer smoke machines are the worst! There are so many different things you have to be aware of when taking nightclub photo's that you might not usually do taking photo's out in the open. The settings I use is a 1/6 Shutter f.3.5 ISO:100 (with an attached speed light) I found these settings worked best and also the quality of the photo's outside managed to stay the same and didn't become over exposed which was great. Still after all this time I cannot say I've managed to learn the complete technique. 

A day at Kilby Bridge

Today my dad, brother and I went up to Kilby to visit the new train bridge that has recently been built. This was the second time they had been and the first time for myself. Growing up around trains its strange to think that I've never really had much interest in them like my dad, but today I took the time out to spend some time with my family and to see what I could get. I'm quite pleased with the results as I didn't haven't much  confidence to start with but it ended on a good note. I particularly like the first one, the strangest thing about this photograph is that my dad and I captured the same composition without either of us knowing.

Class 66- Kilby Bridge  

Meridean InterCity 125- Kilby Bridge 

Grand union canal- Kilby

I walk past this tree across the fields when I walk from my mums to my dads. The first picture was taken with my dad two years ago, the second one today. I'm not sure what I like about this tree other than it stands in the middle of a field, I think from now on I will capture the tree in all seasons.

July 2011

April 2013

Italy

Last week from the 25th - 28th February the photography department visited Bergamo, Italy. I've never particularly crazed about going to Italy like most people, although after staying in Bergamo I'd like to stay in Sicily as this is where most tourists go due to how beautiful it is. It was amazing to actually be in Italy and walking around on the cobble stone paths and down tall narrow streets as it's usually seen only in films.
On the second day we visited a Museum in Milan, we also got given the chance to climb the Dumo di Milano which is Milan's Cathedral Church one the Milan's main tourist attractions. The Cathedral is the fifth largest in the world!
Below are a few photo's around Bergamo and Milan.

Milan trainstation, Milan 

Cityscape, Bergamo 

Waiters, Milan 

Dumo Di Milano, Milan 

Lady and dog, Bergamo 

Cityscape, Milan 

Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, Milan 

Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, Milan 

For more photo's http://www.flickr.com/photos/62313872@N05/

Birmingham

Last week I went to Birmingham to visit a friend and decided it would be an idea to take a few photo's. Unfortunately due to the freezing cold weather I gave up after two photo's. Anyway I really like how colourful they both are.

Council House, Birmingham   

Mailbox lights, Birmingham 

London 7th February

On Thursday the photography department went to London to see the Taylor Wessing work at the National Gallery. The work was pretty amazing to say the least and gave me an wider outlook on portraiture as that's not my strongest area in photography. After about an hour of looking around the place we thought it would be a good idea to try and walk to Camden town knowing full well we had limited time, we found this out just after we got half way.
Anyway a few pictures I took around London, nothing special just documenting the day really.

Water Fountain and Landseer Lion- London

Probably k6 model- London 

 

BT tower- London

St Martin-in-the-Fields- London

Black Telephone- London

Home

Another college assignment in which we had about 7 months to produce was to create a body of work for an exhibition we're holding at Leicester's photographic gallery in February. I'm ashamed to say I didn't carry out my original proposal  and changed my mind 2 weeks before the deadline, which was a bad idea but really i'm glad I did. Anyway the project I decided to carry out was MORE nightscapes on my village, a similar project to my other however, this was a lot more personal. The village I live in is very special to me not only because I grew up here but because of how unique the place is and some of the beautiful features it includes. So this time round I wanted to embrace this through the night.

Below are images that have surrounded me throughout my life. These are not just photographs, this is home.

The Phonebox- Newton Harcourt 

Wistow Road- Newton Harcourt

St Luke's - Newton Harcourt

Spinney car - Newton Harcourt

Long Row - Newton Harcourt 

2013 Star Trails project

Okay so i've experimented with nightscapes, my new project for this year will be to create nightscapes including star trails. Last time I tried this it didn't turn out too well, however this time im going to be prepared as ill have the right equipment. Unlike other projects this one will no be rushed, even if i take a picture every month.
The pictures below are a few inspirations. (Please note these are not mine)
I can't wait!

Nightscapes

Since last year I had decided to make a personal project on a sequence of Nightscapes. I had never experiment with long exposures until we were given a brief at college, after this I continued to produce more for my own work. I loved the outcome's and soon got addicted! As you can see some of my images are stronger than others, this shows my development throughout the year. I will continue to produce more Nightscapes this year, however moving away from the country side and experimenting with urban/derelict buildings.

Wistow, Leicestershire 2012

Wistow, Leicestershire 2012

Rutland water, Rutland/Leicestershire 2012

Newton Harcourt, Leicestershire 2012

Wistow, Leicestershire 2012

Leicester, Leicestershire 2011

Rutland water, Rutland/Leicestershire 2012

Wistow, Leicestershire 2013

Rutland, Rutland/Leicestershire 2012

Kilby, Leicestershire 2013