Ryan Williams's Blogger: June 2010

Tuesday, 22 June 2010

Researching different poses for future shots.

This was found on google images when searching poses. just thought this might come in handy some time.

This is another one a put together but i found all the images on google an then made a contact sheet in photoshop.

This is a interesting pose and i love how you are drawn to this photograph and i want to do something like this in a future shoot. I think because this poses looks really hard and is unusual it makes the photo work and i am looking forward to playing round.

Sunday, 20 June 2010

Inspiration, ideas and problems.

For a few mouths now I have wanted to photograph something different but I couldn’t decide on what my idea was going to be based around. I have been looking for props to mage a good seen. I have been thinking about doing an army set or something with a gas mask and at the moment the idea with a gas mask sounds promising. I had lots of ideas but like most ideas at the day of the shoot the idea seems to be completely different and it doesn’t happen as it was planed out to be. One of the problems I seem to be faced with is when looking back at my work I begin to think “why are my photographs the all the same”. I feel that I do have some great work but sometimes I don’t get any recognition from it. It's making me think about how I can promote my work even to the extent of getting a job as a photographer assistant. I sometimes think my work isn’t going anywhere and I need to make a difference. When I say my work looks the same I mean it in two ways, firstly it could be I have similar work to this in other projects when photographing a models. Secondly I feel I need to shine and try different techniques and when I do then my earlier work want be the same.

Being a dyslexic makes it hard for me to explain and talk about my work and because of that I try to explain through my images.

I am always hard on my self every time I take a photographs because I want everything to go well and also I want the right shot the first time I press the shutter. I don’t want to edit my photographs too much and to me that’s the different between a photographer to a pro photographer.

I was in the library having a 1 to 1 tutorial with Katy and we were going through a photography journal and I said to Katy " you can tell the difference with great photographers work to just a photographer” at the time I didn’t think she would have understood what I meant, I don’t think anyone would understand what I mean.

This is a photograph I found on the internet. I went on to google and searched "kids in gas masks" there was lots of people in gas masks and this one caught my eye. This photograph is serial and very different to my photography. I want my next shoot to jump out and grab peoples attention. Gas masks aunt the most pleasant thing to look at and are quite ugly looking and I want to do something fine art with this.

Photographer :Vee Speers

This was found on google images and yes it wasn't what I was looking for but what a great shot! This photograph has made me think about using other props and not just the gas mask.

Another great shot. Photographer is unknown. I found this on google images when searching gas masks but again I love this image. The lighting is good and the composition to me is a bit out. Personally if I was in the photographers shoes I would shot this so you would have the full body in shot and the light looking up at her to get more contrast and mood to the image. Another thing I like about it is the serial look about it. I think because this women is in a gas mask and you cant see her face people would be attracted to this image and it makes you want to look at it more. This shot represents military fashion with female nudity.

More images below that I found relevant to the next shoot.

This photograph above I really like because of the moody background and just fine art look about it. I think again the gas mask makes this image work and i am defiantly gonna keep this photograph as a reference to my future work

What I like about this photograph is that its in colour and on a location. I might start thinking about going to a location with my model and also use different colours as back grounds. Am not to sure about my model being naked as it is my girlfriend but might do some as a personal project. This images given me some ideas for when I do this shoot.

This photograph looks really cartoon looking and I would really like to do something like this in the future. I have a photo in mined that I want to do and its to get a head shot of the model in the gas mask side on and capture the greens of the mask and make the model really pail white. I am really looking forwards to this shoot.

Saturday, 12 June 2010

Work Based Learning (E-mails sent and replays)

Fashion Photographers

Tracer Ital

Make up Artists

Hila Karmand

Ryan Williams May 28 at 3:48pm

Hi Hila

I have been looking at your work and i think your photography is great. I am a photography student studying at blackburn university and for one of my units ii need to get a opportunity to work along side a fashion photographer for my work base learning and i noticed you are based in london. would it be possible to meet up sometime so i could show you my work and see if i could help you in anyway.

Thank you.

Regards

Ryan

Hila Karmand May 28 at 4:53pm

hi ryan,

Hope your well.. Im so sorry to disappoint ou but i am not a fashion photographer but a make up artist.. I know a few fashion photographers that may be able to help you... Sarah Louise Johnson. Tracer Ital. Squiz Hamilton. Daniel Thomas... hope it helps x x

Fashion Photographer

MARI SARAI

Hello Mari

I have been looking at your work a lot over the past year and your photography is great. I am studying photography at blackburn university and for one of my units i need to get a opportunity to work along side a fashion photographer for my work base learning. i was researching and noticed that you are working in london am i right? would it be possible to meet up sometime so i could show you my work and see if i could help you in anyway. It would be a great opportunity for me to see you work so i can gain experience and learn what i have to do to make it big as a photographer. it would be a pleasure and a honour to watch how you go about photographing and organizing your work. Please get back in contact with me, it would me most appreciated.

Thank you,

Regards, Ryan

Fashion Photographer

Sarah Louise Johnson

Portrait Photographer

To Ryan Williams (me)

Hi Jody.

I am a Photography student at blackburn university in England and i really like your work. I cant stop looking at your portraits on the web. they are fantastic. Can i ask you what camera you use to get that effect with your portraits? I was also going to ask if you have ever had students come to you for work experience and if so then can i work along side you next year? It would be a life changing experience because i want to do my best in the photography world and doing work experience with you i feel i could get better and learn from your experience.

Regards

ryan

From Jody Ake

Hello ryan

Thank you for the nice email. To quickly answer you questions. My images look the way they do for a few reasons. I use a hundred year old 8x10 camera and even older lens. I also work in the historical wet collodion process. all of these factors and more contribute to the final look of the image.

I rarely have students or interns. Mostly because my day to day activity is hard to predict. At the moment I am in new york but in the fall i could be moving to oregon. If you find your self in either place let me know.

best

Jody

Commercial/Social Photographer

Philip Lee Harvey

Fashion Photographer

Squiz Hamilton

Tuesday, 8 June 2010

Inspiration.

I found this photograph on facebook when looking through some photographs of a group called Liverpools big Vintage fair and really could not stop looking at this photographers work. This photograph makes me want to go out and take photographs as good as this all day long and its just something that makes me seem worth wile living. Its funny because a photograph can make my mood change really fast and if a picture can change my mood then it must be a good photograph, this photograph done that for me. The photographer who taken this is called Stevenio Cheshire and i had to add him as a freind and send him a message asking him how he made such a great image and i hope he replys back to me. Just below the photograph on Facebook he said it was taken on 135 film and i need to have a go at this! Personaly i dont think in photography you can beat film because everyone goes back to it at some point in there life.

Photographer: Steven Cheshire

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Tuesday, 22 June 2010

Researching different poses for future shots.

Sunday, 20 June 2010

Inspiration, ideas and problems.

Saturday, 12 June 2010

Work Based Learning (E-mails sent and replays)

Thursday, 10 June 2010

Intersts and photography contacts. Work based learning.

Tuesday, 8 June 2010

Inspiration.