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.