Black and White protraits of strangers Research

After my flop in the back room I decided to attempt it again and as it was raining out side we decided inside at a very interesting spot in the collage.  So after setting up I proceeded to take 6 photos of people one with flash on and one with flash off. I had to set the camera up for every shot as I needed one with the background blurred, one semi focused in the back ground and one totally focused in the background. After I was finished doing that I went back up to the developing room and as I was loading mine and Nicolas film in a tank I felt one of the pegs with the film attached fall into one of the tanks. When we finally found it , it had fallen into the stop tank and ruined it. We proceeded to develop what was left wondering what film we had just destroyed after 30 more minutes in the darkest room imaginably we emerged with our developed prints except for the one we dropped in the stop which turned out to be Nicolas. After inspecting the film I discovered my subjects where stood to close to the back ground and there was no depth of field....NOOOOOOOO id messed up again did I mention I really don't like this 5x4 camera. Again im going to have to try again and that is with out doing the colour film yet.

Black and White Portraits of strangers research

we have been giving our new project and I must say I feel very lost, Im struggling with what needs to be done and how to organize myself to get it done. Im on tablets at the moment to help me through a difficult year and when I think of any type of work it feels like my brain fogs up and I cant think straight and I feel like I cant breath. This is hampering me trying to do this course and the work that needs to be done as I feel im in the dark scurrying about trying to find the light switch so everything will become clear and I can see what needs to be done again. Luckily I have a friend who is closely guiding me through what need to be done..thanks Nicola :) . So I managed to get out with the 5x4 camera which I dislike intently just so you know and took a few portraits of people passing by. I got a great one of a very intimidating fellow who was smoking a cigarette now for a photographer I found this shoot to be very exciting and was very pleased with myself. After I had taking the 3 shots I was ready to develop to see how they turned out after fiddling about in a very darky room trying to develop the film for nearly 30 minutes, we were ready to see our handy work. Nicolas came out brilliantly.....mine on the other hand were like ghosts on film and were unusable, devastated wasn't the word...back to the drawing board or in my case to the photography store for more film and to try again.

The above picture is a photo took in the developing room to show you how dark it is when we are developing film...you mays well have your eyes closed.

Editorial Evaluation.

I really was trying to think hard on how I could do an editorial on extraordinary. At first I thought on disabled people and the extraordinary things they can achieve but I thought everyone would be doing that. So  I thought about the life saving equipment in north tees hospital I thought that would be a good thing to start, but after having an editorial I was told to leave that idea and take portraits of my dad with a white background so I did and hated every single one of them. I do find that if its someones elses idea im not that good at doing it. I then took a photo of my fireplace by accident while I was trying to take the cat and have a bit of a play about with the camera, I noticed my entire life was on the fire place I then went upstairs and took pictures of my daughters shelf and realised hers was the same. The next time I was at uni having a crit I showed the lecturer who wasn't that impressed but found some old photos Id took at trying to do a Morden day Cinderella and he really liked them and I was told to do my project on shoes which is ok with me as I love shoes. I did my first one with the wizard of oz shoes and staged it to look as if the witch had been squashed with the house so all I took was legs but instead of a house I wanted them to look as if they past out drunk and the red hot poker shoes, but again I was told they didn't like the idea and I needed to take shoes in random areas which I felt didn't really go with my idea. Every photo there after I hated taking as I didn't feel like this was my idea and I found it very difficult I managed to put a few little twist of my own In a few of the images but other than that I didn't feel like it was my project. I did find that I pushed my self to experiment with how I was taking the shoots with flash as I hate using flash I think it makes the photo to bright sometimes. I also tried hard to make the photo interesting but some give a hint of the storys behind the shows in a little gesture as I was told not to make it obvious. I was disappointed with most of the photos I took but I kept pushing myself to see if I could find better places to make my photos look great. I really tried to do something like the photographers I managed to research but mainly I really wanted to have my own touch to them saying I wanted to make story's out of them.  If I was to do this project again I would follow my own ideas and take into account the suggestions of the lecturers as they both have very different opinions and I found I just felt confused on how to approach my project and I ended up unhappy and still feel confused. I did have problems at the end of the project as my loan money hadn't come in and I couldn't afford to get them professional printed so I printed them out myself and also had a major problem as I deleted all my Cinderella and first iron hot poker shoes from the 3 back ups I had put them on and the only copies I had where on facebook so I had to down load them for my final prints as the Cinderella ones everyone liked and I felt that one of them had to be in my final print , so unfortunate the file size is really small for these 2 pictures.

Editorial Project - Final Images

Well I took over 700 photographs trying different angles different lighting moving slightly to the left or right, trying to alter the position of the shoes to see if I could get a better picture. So after a lot of debating and a lot of staring at the photos I finally picked......9. There was suppose to be 5 but I couldn't narrow them down so here is my final 9.

all the above images are my own

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Editorial Research - Fairytale shoes - take 2 of red hot poker shoes

I loved the other pictures I took but unfortunately they turned out blurry so I bought some sparklers and headed to the park in hope I can take some amazing fire pictures with out the blur and here is some I took.

As you can see these photographs were a big massive fail and I was very disappointed they were that blurry I couldn't even save them.

Editorial Research Fairy tale shoes - Hermes

Now Every one know about Hermes the messenger for the Greek gods who had wings on his shoes well this is my interpretation of the story.

I really liked the ones I took in front of the columns as I feel like these look more Greek. 

These are all my own images.

Editorial Fairytale shoe - Cinderella take 2

I went back out with my Cinderella type shoes to try and do a shoot that wasn't set up and wasn't aimed to much on the story that the lectures wanted. I found this hard as it wasn't what I had in mind but here are some of the pictures I took using these shoes.
Well I tried not to set them up but I couldn't help myself on some of them.....im just a natural story teller. These photos I wanted to try and represent the 2 ugly step sisters wanting Cinderella's shoes.

 

 

 

with these photos I went back to taking them in random places.

and these ones I back setting them up and trying to tell a story again.

 

 

 

 Now with these ones im back to random places.

 

 

 

 I must admit I love all of these ones and I feel its going to be difficult to chose, I loved the way the slow shutter give the shoes a golden look to them.

All the above images are my own.

 

 

 

 

 

editorial research - fairytale shoes - wizard of Oz shoes take 2

So I went back out with the camera to take the wizard of oz shoes in a different location.  I wanted to see what it would look like with blue bricks as I was told not to make the story to obvious so I thought the blue brick road might be a good hint towards it. While I was down there I came across a Pomeranian dog, and I had been after a little dog to sit with my wizard of oz shoes as my toto. I then went back later on the night to take some night shots of an alley I saw that had light in and thought that might be good. I then headed over towards the river in Stockton to see if I could get any interesting shoots over there to.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I absolutely loved the lights on the floor and how they made them look especially the one with the people behind them. I also liked the way the shoes looked on that railing I was terrified the wind was going to blow them into the river. I also like the close up of them on the blue cobbles and the little dog was called buzz light year and was one of the market stall holders dog that I begged to photograph next to my shoes but I felt I could shoot them how I wanted as the dog was very excitable and made it difficult but I still think there great.

 These are all my images and below is 2 little video about my idea