The photo shoot I have in mind I am trying to translate that emotion like every time im on a shoot. To create a sense of control and shape. I am not to concerned about the lighting with this shoot as I am aiming to have a feel and look of journalistic photography so not necessarily black and white but focusing more on the tones, shapes places and natural light. As a feel my photography has a feeling of communication, passion and weirdness to it I want to do this again and make my work stand out and look fashionable. For my individual studies I focused on journalism in terms of street photography, war corespondency and how the what effects does the photographer get when working in that environment, Also how do they get paid and how hard is it has a career. I was really interested and intrigued with how photo journalists worked in such away. Working in the studio at university has opened a range of skills to my photography as I was unsure about lighting and how light can effect a photograph quite rapidly. As I journalistic point of view photographers don't really worry about the light as they are capturing the surroundings and the subject of what is going on around them to display a story if you like. I think as I am interested in the outdoors and journalism to me is something photographs ether have it or they don't. I am more so now in to fashion and because of this my work has come on dramatically over the two years spent on my course.

So for my individual practice I am going to produce a set of images that involve the surroundings using natural light and a reflector if necessary. I am going to create photographs of fashion but with elements of what a feel is journalistic. I come up with the idea of photographing a ballerina in different dance forms in terms of controlling the models positions with the environment.I will be interested and looking for the light, shape, form and beauty. I have lots of locations in mind for this shoot and I know it's going to be a long day and the model, hair stylist and make up people are going to hate me when I have finished but I am positive that my work will show for its self.

I didn't think this idea has been one before and I was really looking forward to shooting but when researching and looking in to the fashion and journalistic styles I come across my idea and I was disappointed as I really did feel it was going to be something personal and good for my.

Below is some research i found:

I am having trouble when attaching photographs to this post so i will try again another time.

Words of wisdom i found from Andrew Farrington

I seen this when browsing facebook and it was on Andrew Farrington's quotes.

I don't know why i am blogging this but feel this quote is perfect because am going though some problems at the minute..

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; be kind anyway. If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; succeed anyway. If you are honest and frank, people may cheat you; be honest and frank anyway. What you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; build anyway.

Ghetto Blaster

Boom boxes or Ghetto Blasters were commercially introduced in the late 1970s and was really popular around 1975 to late 1980s and doing this research about the 70's I found this time really interesting and have been inspired with this look and time. It's really made me think about doing a shoot like this for the fashion and for my mail theme I was thinking of doing 70's pop music and how fashion was with the Ghetto Blaster out as it was such a big thing in the day and I could get a really good photo shoot and have a great location in mind. 


I found some photographs when searching Ghetto Blaster in google

Some of the photographs are for this link...

http://blog.reedandsimon.com/2009/11/11/boombox-aka-ghettoblaster/

The Ghetto Blaster basically a large, portable, radio cassette player and was about 1.5 m wide and 1.0 m high. I really want do do a shoot with all this in mind as I think it would be a great opportunity for me and feel I could get some great photographs out of this.

Work based learning Dark-room poster

I was asked to create and come up with an idea or some sort of notice for the door before you enter the dark room as people are sometimes unaware of people processing film and could end up working in on someone wile the negatives or ilford paper it out and could result in the paper or negatives to be exposed at you don't want that to happen so to prevent this i come up with a poster for the door and this is what i come up with:

This is the picture I taken on my phone and I placed this in to photoshop and made a new canvas.

This is the first one I made and I thought a tight crop was good as it fitted the slide on the door but when I emailed kevin he told me to change the size to a4 but as it doesn't look right as its attached to my blog.

Work based learning screen calibration

On the 09/03 first thing I was asked to calibrate and sync the computers to get better colour tones. The software used was called Spyder3pro and the settings must be at .............................................once you have the software up and running and you have put the correct settings in and the settings are saves you then connect the spyder to the screen by jus simply placing it over the top which has a weight to balance the spyder to the monitor  after this I cleaned all the screens and made sure the lights where turned of and blinds lowered as I was told my Kevin that light and even touching the screen can interfere when the Spyder is calibrating.

 This picture above is just an example of how the spyder sits on the screen and you can see how this is calibrating the monitor.

70's fashion clothing

I have started to look at 70's clothing as I really like the 70's music and would love to focus more on the clothing and make arraignments for a photo shoot. I could look at 70's clothing all day as i love the style and colours. I want to do lots of shoots as i really want to get a good mark and try hard with this assignment. 


1960s rhinestone and beaded sheer top. Sold on Posh Girl Vintage. I want this!

1970s studded denim jacket.

1970s embroidered Halter top. 

1960s faux-fur Leopard print jacket. Sold on Spanish Vintage Moss I want this too!

1970s Emilio Pucci box purse

Work based learning lighting

On one wednesday morning I was asked to put lighting away and to check if all the lighting heads worked correctly. If not then I would have to tell kevin, The lights that did work then I was to see if the lamp bulbs worked and if not then to replace them.

I was given a pack of bulbs and each bulb cost £10 pound and I was shocked by the price of them. After going through all the lighting the uni had only one lighting didn't work so that was past on to kev and then he sends it of to get repaired.

This picture above was taken by my iphone and its of the packaging of the bulbs used for the bowens lighting. What I was doing is using a power cable I made sure the Bowens head light was turned of and then once the power was connected then I would turn the lighting head on and turn the switch to lamp and if it turned on then it was working and I wouldn't  need to replace it with a new bulb.

This picture above shows the packet of bulbs kev provided me and also a diagram showing the bowens lighting and how to set and mount the bulbs. This diagram is good for when looking for information on how to use the lighting and for how to set the lighting up ether in studio or on location.

This is one of the Bowens 500w head lights, this one doesn't have a lamp bulb attached as this is the one that didn't work. This head light can only be used as a flash but if needed to have constant light then it wouldn't be of any use.

This is not the best photograph but it shows the bulb working and what i mean by constant light.

I didnt need to put a new bulb in this one as it was all working in good order but most head lights on the day needed new bulbs.

This picture above shows how i have put the lighting heads in order and it goes from 500w to 450w and then to 150w.. all the heads are now working and have brand new lamp bulbs.