Week 16

The deadline is getting very close now and I have almost all the photographs I need in order to produce my final piece. With most of my work done I am planning an action to help me progress into my preferred field. I have decided to email various photographers who appeal to me, when talking to Jonathan Worth he told me to email photographers that really inspire me to take photographs in order to ensure I get something out of the experience if they were to give me any work.

Week 15

A few days ago I helped my friend Rhys on his fmp film called clearing. This is something that I really enjoyed, although I have been focusing mainly on my photography this year and term I still have an interest in Television and Film. I was the boom man for one of the location shoots, it was great to see another student and how they go about getting their work done. This has given me a little bit of extra eperience and taught me how to act proffesionaly on a film set.

Week 14

A photogrpaher I have been looking a lot recently is William Eggleston. Although I have known Eggleston’s work for a long time I feel as though I am truely stating to understand his work on a completely new level.

Eggleston looks at his surroundings and photographs on a daily basis of things that he sees givng us a perspective of the world and his interepretation to this. Here are some of my favorite Eggleston Images that I have been observing recently.

Week 13

My final project is coming along very well at the moment and I am still learning a lot of aspects of photography, I am currently observing with my lens the destination on the train route between Maidstone and Coventry as this gives me the chance to explore placesI have never been. This week I have been to Milton Keynes, while in this place I set myself a challenge to get a portrait of a person I do not know. As a result of this I made this image of John a local at Milton Keynes who was out fishing. I aim to do this on a regular basis now in order to set me up for the future when I may be asked to meet a person at a certain location. When approaching the subject I just started by talking to him about what he was doing and if he had caught any fish, we then got talking about photography as luckily for me he has been known to take a photograph in his time. When I felt I had become compfortable with him and him compfortable with me I asked if I could make a portrait of him which he had no problem with. This has increased my confidence and is something I will defiantly be doing again as the more used I get to photographing strangers it will become easier and easier and by the time I get to my first portrait commision I feel I will be able to do this with great confidence for myself and the subject to be compfortable.