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

August Sander

August Sander was a German portrait and documentary photographer. Born 17th November 1876 Sander's first book Face of our Time was published in 1929. Sander has been described as "the most important German portrait photographer of the early twentieth century." April 20th 1964 he passed away in Cologne. 

At college we were given an assignment to produce three pictures in the style of Sander. At first this seemed easy, but as I went along I found it quite tricky.

 Feature’s he continually worked with is the blank expression and shallow depth of field. However when photographing it was a big step from any other project we had been given because I had to stick to certain elements, such as the depth of field, the blank expression, not to mention colour, composition and visual. Below show Sanders work and my attempt to portray his style. 

The Wise One, Shepard- 1913

Bricklayer's mate 1928

Art Dealer 1928

Winter 2013

Next winter I am aiming to produce a little project that looks likes this.
I really love the outcome.