Fourth Year, Semester 2, Week 11

This week I submitted my entry for the Magnum competition with IdeasTap.com, which can be viewed here.

I have been working on my book, and think it is more or less finalised, apart from the finer details, and some technical issues.  Once its done it can be purchased online and delivered, or via e-book ;)

I will have my sample strips from the printers back on Monday.  I might be going home next week after my tutorial to reshoot some images to stitch them together for one large print, but I'm still not sure about that...

"What changes when you are there before my eyes is that you become unpredictable.  What you are about to do is unknown to me.  I follow you.  You act.  And with what you do, I fall in love again."

Fourth Year, Semester 2, Week 9

This week I bought my domain name:

www.janeflynnphotography.com

I still have some final photographs to add, and need to upload a personal statement, then it will be more or less finished.

We found our degree show spaces out on Thursday afternoon - I am in the General Foundation studios, and I got the exact corner that I was hoping for, so I am very chuffed with that!

I sent some sample strips away to the printers in Edinburgh yesterday, and they should be with me in about 10 days.  All going well, I now only have to make the final tweaks to the images, and then send them to the printers!  I am thinking of reshooting one of my images so that I can enlarge it even bigger than I had originally planned, and have it as the main focal point of my final show, but I'm still not 100% sure about that.  I hope the samples I am getting done will help me make a final decision about this!.

I am entering the Jill Todd Photographic Award, and an award on Ideas Tap, so I have been busy working on my submissions over the past week or so.  Hopefully I will get them finalised and submitted this coming week.  By total coincidence, both the titles for these are 'Home', so I am feeling quite confident about what I am submitting!

My business cards arrived this morning, and everything is finally coming together... 6 weeks on Monday we get access to our degree show spaces!

Fourth Year, Semester 2, Week 8

This week has been a total write off, but I today I spent some time on my website;

http://janeflynnphotography.weebly.com/

I still have a lot more photos, and journals to scan and edit, but that wont be happening for a wee while yet.  Once I have all my work on there, I will purchase a domain name and order some business cards!

Gathering all my work together has been a mammoth task, and I still feel like I have so much more to do.  I had no idea up until now how much work I did on my Gran.  It has been a strange day today reading through one of my journals - I should make some more.

Fourth Year, Semester 2, Week 7

This week has been relatively productive.  On Tuesday I went down to Edinburgh for what will most likely be my last trip to take photographs.  I got all the pictures I wanted, except one, but I'm not sure if I want it in my final show.

Our studios were allocated yesterday, and I got the studio that I'd been after, so I'm very pleased.  Over the next few weeks there will be meetings to decide who gets which area in which studio, so I'll be able to make a start on really thinking about how my show will look.

I got one of my photographs printed to two by three feet, and it looks very nice.  At the moment I'm planning to have most of the photos that size, except one very large image, that is central to my show.

I have all my photographs edited, and on Monday I plan to print them all out and start working out an order for them, and which ones I do and don't to be included in my show.  Right now I have a lot of important decisions to make, rather than an actual large amount of work to do.  Over the next few weeks, my time will probably be spend else where in Dundee, thinking things over, rather than working in the studio.  I am trying to decide on wether I want a statement, a quote, and/ or titles to go with my work, but at the moment I think I'll be going with a quote (but that will probably change about 10 times from now until my show!)

9 weeks on Monday we get into our show spaces... Exciting stuff!

Fourth Year, Semester 2, Week 6

I was at home over the week end shooting with my new camera.  So far, I am absolutely blown away by its quality, and love working with it.  The images really do have a three dimensional feel to them, and I can't wait to get them printed!  I find out my degree show space next week on friday, so hopefully that will help me decide on the size of the prints, so I can get some final images printed.

I want to reshoot this image, as the squint lines are really irritating me!;

On my next trip home I'm going to try and focus more on spaces around the home, and how they are inhabited - right now I feel like all of my work is items sitting on surfaces (shelfs, etc.).  I have a few ideas rolled up my sleeve but wont reveal too much!

Its recorded tutorials next week, and I've been writing mine over the past day or so.  It's nice to see where I am in relation to degree show, and right now I'm feeling pretty confident with what I need to do and getting it done on time.

I'll probably stop posting a lot of work on here over the next few weeks.... So that my degree show is a fresh feast for the eyes ;)  I'm hoping to submit all my images for printing around two weeks before we get into our spaces, so in about eight weeks time.  In the mean time I will no doubt be getting a few more samples made.

Fourth Year, Semester 2, Week 5

This past week I've spent some time considering how I'd like my work to be presented for my degree show.  I'm definitely having prints, and the response to the framing/ mounting and them 'floating' from the wall was helpful at the group crit.  I think I'll be going with the latter option, as it was pointed out to me from 'fresh eyes' that the formal compositions of the images frame the subjects in their own right, and allow viewers to project themselves into the spaces.

Left; Inkjet print onto cotton rag paper, Right; c-type print:

Inkjet print onto cotton rag paper:

Inkjet print onto Fuji Satin paper, mounted onto PVC:

I received my new camera over the week end and have spent some time this week getting to grips with it.  I can't wait to shoot with it, and I will be home over the week end to work with it!  So far it is exceeding all of my expectations, so I hope it performs well when I am shooting at home.

Fourth Year, Semester 2, Week 4

The past four weeks have been crazy productive, but this past week I haven't got as much done.  Thursday and Friday I have a framing work shop, which I hope will help me decide on how I'd like my images to be displayed a little better!  There are so many different possibilities its hard to decide what I want until I am sure as to what I can create down in the work shop (which is probably pretty much everything!).  I ordered some sample images this morning on two different papers, which I hope will help me make a decision as to what suits my work!

.... I also placed an order for a Sigma DP2 Merrill last night, so I should have that awaiting for me the next time I'm at home.  I am absolutely itching to get my hands on it, and the thought of having to wait 10 days is killing me!  Our degree show proposal submission is this week, so I spent a lot of Monday talking about this with my tutor, and I can finally say I think I have an idea about how my degree show may look, although I wont reveal too much until I am allocated a space, and have spent more time  organising it ;)

Some scans from a film I received back over the week end.  I really like the image with the small flag, which was originally hung in my Grandmothers caravan.  I think I will reshoot the image of the ducks, more straight on, as right now I think there is too much going on in the image.