Wednesday, October 15, 2014

WW2 Bomb factory

I'm baaaaack!! Back in Hereford and cracking on with my work already! On my first Sunday here I went on a expedition with some of my friends to what I believe is a WW2 bomb factory. Obviously, it had been abandoned for many years and, strictly speaking, we weren't supposed to be there...oops. However, it's a great place for taking photographs.


Wednesday, October 08, 2014

Studio portraiture

As well as still life photographs I have also taken a few portraits in the studio, although much less than still lives. Studio portraiture is not my favourite genre of photography (I'm not very good at directing people) but I've had to have a go at it for my college and uni project.
studio portraiture
This was actually the first photograph I ever took on a 5x4 camera as part of a workshop in college. It's a paper negative inspired by the work of Martin Schoeller.


studio portraiture
 This is a photograph I produced in response to a brief we were set to pick an images from a selection we were given and copy it as closely as we could. I chose the Irving Penn portrait of Marlene Detrich. 
This final one I took at uni and it's inspired by another Irving Penn portrait, this time though, one he took of Audrey Hepburn. 

Thursday, October 02, 2014

Experimentation in the Darkroom

At college we did a unit called "The Face" where we had the opportunity to to try come cool techniques in the darkroom.
experimental darkroom
Photogram
experimental darkroom
Photogram
experimental darkroom
Photogram
experimental darkroom
Photogram
experimental darkroom
Double negative
experimental darkroom
Solarisation
experimental darkroom
Scratched negative
experimental darkroom
Manipulated developer
experimental darkroom
Liquid light on sugar paper