Second Semester, Week two - Light Boxes

Today I built a light box, containing an LED light, which I used to illuminate some 5x4 colour slides I shot a few months ago;

I love the glow you get when transparencies are displayed over light boxes!

First Semester, Christmas Assessment

Its that time of year again; I can't believe how fast this semester has gone by. Had an excellent time, and learnt a lot, but I wish there were a few more hours in the day! Here are some pictures of my final set up;

Two pictures from the summer, to suggest to the viewer that these images are not just straight forward family portraits.


I used to sit by my Grans bed in hospital and we'd eat Lindt chocolate truffles together. She would always give me her sweetie wrappers and ask me to put them in the bin, but I used to collect them all in my pockets.
Her bus passes and passport. One of her bus passes is still in date. I remember going with her to the post office (when I was about 10 years old) to get the application form for her passport and for her to get her picture taken.

All eight of my final Black and White images are for sale. Please contact me if you're interested! They are all printed onto Fine Art cotton Rag paper, with a 100% cotton fibre content.

Letters To Granny

Some letters I wrote this week. I managed to forget my camera today, so unfortunately I wont have any more images until next week, but right now I'm really getting my head down and sorting everything for christmas assessment which is in two weeks time. I have a lot of stuff planned for semester two, so I'm looking forward to getting everything finalised!

Letters To Granny

Today I started working in my new moleskin. Click on the images to enlarge;

I plan to fill it with short letters to my Gran (who was demented for many years before her death) with all the things I feel like I never got a chance to say to her.

Third Year, Week 9

A colour image that will be one of my finals for my portraiture module. I'm photographing her house, void of people, using colour film, as a response to our 'Historical Portrait' brief; where you must choose some one of historical importance to you, using symbolism to portray how they have influenced you, and what they mean to you.

My Grans bed was last slept in by her on the 9th of May, and is still made in her house, just as she left it. There are strands of hair, creases in the sheets, and bits of skin from her feet still in it.

Not sure how happy I am with the scan, as I had to scan it using the flat bed scanners, whilst I wait for the negative holder for the film scanner to arrive. I've sent some images to a company in Edinburgh this week to get sample images printed, to see how they work on the paper I (think) I will be using for my finals. I'll be collecting them on saturday afternoon, so hopefully they will work nicely!

Third Year, Week 8

Not had a very productive week, due to tutorials, tour guiding, and technology failing to work, but I managed to get a good amount done today. The following images have been scanned from 5x4 negatives on a flat bed scanner, then taken into photoshop, and edited very slightly;



These are three potential final images, but I have more to shoot and edit. From those I will select the best to be printed onto photo rag paper (paper with 100% cotton content) as my finals. My final images will be scanned using a flextight negative scanner, which is much better quality than using a flat bed scanner. I'm going to get some small 'sample' images printed onto cotton rag whilst I'm down in edinburgh next week end.

Third Year, Week 7

Not had a very productive week in terms of producing new work, but managed to get lots of little, irritating jobs done and out of the way. Over the next 5 weeks or so, I'll be shooting films based on the following photographs (5x4 contact prints) and looking to conclude this area of my project in time for Christmas assessment.

Contact prints sepia toned, printed onto Ilford Warmtone FB paper;

Ilford Warmtone FB toned in Selenium (archival);
Resin coated (Jessops) paper;



Apologies for the poor quality images! Next week I'll be scanning them and editing them digitally in Photoshop, so I'll have better images soon.