Shake

 Slow motion of Millie Shaking...

Dramatic south wings

I went to the Isle of Wight recently.  One of the days, I headed down to the beach and this old man was throwing bread to all these seagulls. I thought it would be a great opportunity to capture some motion images with the birds fighting to grab pieces of bread. I had just got a new camera and wanted to try it out. These are my results, I took about 500 pictures and lets just say it took me a few days to go through all of them and try and pick the best ones. I did edit a few to bring out the different colours, so my images didn't look so dull.  I think it's quite hard trying to time the perfect image where the birds were just sweeping down to collect bread. This gave me good practice for motion images.

I think this one is my best shot due to the timing of the two seagulls. I think it was lucky that I was balancing my camera on the wall so the photograph is framed with the lovely blurred out background.

Dome...again

So far for my blog I have taken my camera around with me at all times. This resulted in the images I have done on my blog. Obviously for uni, for my projects I will concerntrate on 'Narrative' or images that symbolise something. But for now, I have revisited the dome in BarrBeacon and have taken more creative shots and re edited some of the ones I did before. So please take a look!

I think it's important to re visit images that you think could be improved and then to go re shoot or re edit. I think this would be a great area to shoot a set in.

House Husband

 

I got the stereotypical housewife  and typical 'bread winner' male worker and reversed the roles, so the male is the 'housewife' and stays at home cleaning and the female puts on the suit and brings in the cash.  I used my boyfriend and I to bring the idea into play. If I were to do this seriously, I would use different characters as it was quite awkward using myself and my boyfriend.  I made the male do the obvious 'chores' that the housewife was seen to do, such as 'washing up', 'cooking' and hoovering. I also made the male pose like a female, and made him put on a female head band and top, to make him look more feminine.  I dressed up in a suit like a businessman would. I tried to act quite grumpy as I would think after a hard day at work you would be quite down.  I asked my boyfriend what the typical male  gestures or acts are when you come in from work, eg; sit on the sofa with one leg over your knee drinking a beer with a remote.  Influences would be Cindy Sherman and Lise Sarfati.

Lichfield Cathedral

I went to photograph Lichfield Cathedral as it's only one of the Cathedrals that has three spires. I edited them quite alot as I wanted to practice with my editing and see how I enhance my editing skills for my 2nd year at uni. I also chose different angles to take my images, angles that I have never really used before.