Sunday, December 14, 2014

Christmas Craziness

Tonight I went out to photograph a Christmas Party and whilst I took lots of lovely photographs of the guests, I also took a few of the Christmas tree for my own fun :) Now whilst I did take some conventional photographs, I also decided to experiment with long exposure and I was really pleased with the results. These are by no means perfect photographs, they are crazy and random and for me this makes them far more interesting.

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Thursday, December 11, 2014

Urban Fashion Part 1


I've been workings on these photographs for the last week or so and I'm finally ready to share them.  These photographs were taken at the Urban Fashion shoot I photographed at the end of November, and feature the beautiful model, Gabriella Drake. I'm really pleased with the results and have to say they are my favourite fashion portraiture photographs so far but there will be more to come... eventually.

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Sunday, November 30, 2014

Wildlife Photography

Very soon I'll have some shots from this weekend's 'Urban Fashion' photoshoot to share, but in the meantime I've been wanting to post some wildlife photographs.

Whilst I really enjoy commercial and fashion photography, of all the photographs I've taken over the last few years, my wildlife shots have to be my favourites. I love photographing animals so I've chosen just a few of my favourites to share.


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Sunday, November 23, 2014

“Bears like marmalade”

It's been a little while since my last post, I've been very busy working on some photographs for The Tiny Marmalade. This was my first shoot down here in Exeter and what a great start to make. Not only do these photographs have a great festive feel with the seasonal special of Christmas Marmalade, they also make me extra excited about seeing the new Paddington Bear movie. A childhood favourite of mine, I can't wait to see him brought to the big screen and of course, "Bears like marmalade".

The Tiny Marmalade make really cute little jams in all kinds of crazy flavours - including some wonderfully bizarre alcoholic flavours, I must try Mojito! Whilst it was amazing just to see how many flavours of marmalades and jams they create, the real fun was in taking and working with the photographs. I took over a thousand photographs in a little over three hours and my gosh, it was a task selecting my favourites. Even now I want to go back and choose more to work with...

Whilst I have not got anywhere near to finishing working with the photographs, here is a small selection of what I've been up to this week.


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Saturday, November 15, 2014

Celebrating Berlin Part Two

Okay, on Friday I posted a selection of my favourite photographs I took in Berlin to commemorate the anniversary of the fall of the Berlin wall, or Der Fall Der Mauer ;). Those photographs were all monochrome, and I feel it's time to add another splash of colour to my blog. Like the previous set, these photographs were inspired by Lomography, and this can really be seen in the crazy colours. Six of these photographs were also shown in monochrome, but they look amazingly different in colour, whereas the other six are completely different. You might also notice that the six I've repeated are digitally created double exposures with the differing photographs being of modern and old buildings.


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Friday, November 14, 2014

Celebrating Berlin

It's been few days since the 25th anniversary of the Berlin Wall being torn down, but I feel now's a good time to share some of my favourite photographs that I took whilst on a trip to Berlin last year. I've decided to share the monochrome photographs first but I have plans to post the colour copies. These photographs were actually taken using my SLR as part of a project inspired by digitally created Lomography.

Initially a form of creative and experimental film photography, Lomography was started as an art movement through which students held exhibitions featuring photographs of Vienna taken by the LCA camera which was created by the Russian company LOMO (hence the name). Now it's a popular style of editing photographs and you can buy Lomography cameras, such as the Diana Mini which is the Lomography camera I have. So the thing that makes Lomographs special..basically crazy colours created by light leaks, vignettes and interesting perspectives and compositions.

My photographs were taken all around Berlin but I had a particular interest in focusing on the juxtaposition between the old, communist remnants and the modern rebuilt areas as well as documenting the exciting monumental places I visited such as the Brandenburg. I especially loved photographing the Berlin Wall and seeing the amazing artwork on it.

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Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Graveyard Photography


I've got plans for some exciting portraiture shoots in the works, which I'm really looking forward to posting about but with an essay draft due in tomorrow, in the mean time I will share with you a couple of different shoots that I took in different graveyards.

Graveyards are perhaps not the first place that come to mind when one considers photography locations and yet they have a haunting beauty about them. I was particularly interested in the high contrast that could be created between the darkness of the tombstones and the cloudy sky, and creating a Gothic atmosphere within my photographs.

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Sunday, November 09, 2014

Burning Books

My blog is still feeling a little empty and I want to share some of more of my favourite work. Completely contrasting with the icy wintery atmosphere of my frozen flowers, these photographs were from a very striking set.

For me, this set was probably the most shocking thing I could have done for my photography as an English student. I didn't just photograph books, oh no... I set fire to books and then photographed them. It was an amazing experience, destroying something purely for the creation of art. Naturally these were not my own books, nor were they of great quality.  This set was inspired by the way books have been burned throughout history as a part of censorship.


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Hello Cold World

So starting this blog is something very new for me...

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