Crime? Project – The final cut…
As part of the A-level I’ve been embarked on, I’ve been working on a project based around the theme “Boundaries”. In light of the recent goings on with completely innocent photographers being tarnished with the “terrorist brush” (see numerous articles on the BJP for example – here, here or here), I chose to focus on [...]
Macclesfield Forest
For the final part of this year’s Photography A-level I’m working towards at the moment, I have been given the theme “Rhythms and Cycles”. I have chosen to make a series of photographs of the the River Bollin. I wanted to show the cycle of water from the rain falling around the start of a [...]
Boundaries Project. Part 6
For the next image in my Crime? series, I wanted to do something drug related. I fixed a few ideas in my head as to how I envisaged the final scene, though I had a few problems deciding how I’d get drugs of some kind into the scene, yet still maintain the degree of ambiguity [...]
Boundaries Project. Part 5
After I’d finished at the previous shoot, and warmed up a little, I decided to try and find somewhere on the other side of the runways that would have the setting sun in the background. I found a couple of possibles, one in particular that stood out. So I headed back there about an hour [...]
Boundaries Project. Part 4
For the next image in my Boundaries project, for which I have now I chosen the title “Crime?” I wanted to photograph someone photographing something that in the current climate, would quite likely warrant a stop & search under section 44 of the Terrorism Act or some other similarly preposterous grounds for infringing a photographer’s [...]
Boundaries Project. Part 3
So I finally managed to get the permission I needed to stage the next shoot for my Boundaries Project. I wanted to stage an Arson attempt, and I had in mind the clubhouse of the local tennis club. In keeping with the theme, and just to make it that bit harder for myself, I wanted [...]
Boundaries Project. Part 2
For the next in my Boundaries series, I chose “Theft, I had envisaged a man appearing to either look for or steal a wallet and car keys. The torch could have been required as a result of a power cut, or he may need the torch as he doesn’t want to turn lights on and [...]
Monday night’s model shoot
As I mentioned in this previous post, I finally managed to get out with my new off-camera flash set up and shoot some on location portraits with a couple of models from Model Mayhem. Amy & Pat were really cool to work with, and you’d never guess that Amy was just starting out! Once I’d [...]
Boundaries Project. Part 1
As part of the A-level I am currently embarked on, I am working on a project based around the theme "Boundaries". In light of the recent goings on with completely innocent photographers being tarnished with the "terrorist brush" (see numerous articles on the BJP for example – here, here or here), I have chosen to [...]
Shot of some pears in a collander lit with off-camera flash
As I tweeted the other day, my latest little off-tangent project is to shoot something, anything, in a Chiaroscuro style. And this is what I’ve ended up with. Its pretty much as I’d envisaged from the outset, so that in itself is an achievement! Image has been monotoned in Lightroom with a heavy vignette. Strobist: [...]
A-level revisited
After the fiasco that has taken place with the exam boards moving the goal posts as far as my AS-Level in photography were concerned, I’ve decided to bite the bullet and re-take the AS, so that I can then go on to doing the A2. I tipped up on Monday to college only to feel [...]
