Places That Fall Apart

These photographs are the second set from my trip to Poltimore House with Zoe Wong. My love of monochrome photography definitely took over with this shoot, however I do like working with colour and so I really enjoyed trying to balance the contrast between the greys and reds of the building and the vivid greens in the plant life when processing these photographs.  I definitely want to get out and find more unusual places like this to photograph!

Breaking and Entering

I've been super busy working on my photography since finishing my exams, trying to get as many of my ideas processed. One of the things I've been longing to do since delving into fashion photography is do some darker photography and when I discovered Poltimore House, a nearby dilapidated 18th-century country house in Devon, I knew I'd found the perfect location. I love the effect shooting in listed buildings and other places that are simply abandoned by society now has on the photographs, however it turned out my model and I were in for a surprise when we got there. A group of volunteers are slowly in the process of restoration, and whilst the building is still in a state of ruin, it's surrounded by scaffolding. Naturally this didn't stop us however and we took great satisfaction in sneaking around the place, whilst avoiding the event taking place in the gardens. 

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.