Street Photography

As part of my photography project I had to include some street photography, so I decided I wanted to do a fashion shoot with an urban twist. These are some of my older work but still a good example of street photography. I had taken these photos in a car park and as I was using natural light to take these photos I had the challenge of working out how I was going to get my photos well lite without having to use a longer shutter setting. I had worked out that if I went to the location early in the morning with my model then the sun would rise letting lots of light through the open gaps.
I did some experimenting with the settings for each photo so I'll put the setting I used under the photos below.

6.3mm

1/80

f/3.8

ISO 400

6.3mm

1/80

f/3.8

ISO 400

5mm

1/60

f/3.4

ISO 800

4.3mm

1/60

f/3.1

ISO 250

7.8mm

1/60

f/4

ISO 640

My photos were taken on my Fuji bridge, handheld as that was the only camera I had at the time and I didn't own a tripod. Hope you like them :)

Question of the day: Do you prefer fashion or urban photography??

The Photography Show

So yesterday I went to The Photography Show in Birmingham NEC, I had a whale of a time and there was plently to see/ do. Fortunately for me one of my weekly tasks in uni was to recreate an iconic photo, I was rather lucky to stumble across a Marilyn Monroe look-alike throughout the day at the Hasslebland stand and just had to snap up a great opportunity. Here are some of my photos ...

I decided to keep my photos in colour as I thought the photos looked beautiful with that splash of colour thought I might play around with the photos and experiment with them in black and white. 

Question of the day: Did you go to the Photography Show this year?? 

If you did what day did you go and did you go intending to buy anything?? 

The Weird And Wonderful

At my university the photography department work closely with the media make up department. This is brilliant for both departments as I get to photograph some amazing work as well as giving useful photos to the make up artists to use in their sketchbooks. Before Christmas the media make up girls had an assessment which I had the honor of photographing for them, each model has a different theme so I've labelled them for you (some are more obvious then others). Below are some of my favourite ones, hope you like them. 

Circus 

Royalty 

Butterflies 

Fossils 

Medusa  

Flowers 

Question of the day: Which is your favourite photo??
And, how long do you think it took the girls to create these wonderful masterpieces??

Old But Gold

So I recently found some old photos that I had taken from the first time I used a make-shift studio (they're from back when I did A-Level in Photography). I remember being quite proud of how well the photos had come out considering I had never used a studio before (it's wasn't really much of a studio, just a tiny cramped room with a backdrop and 2 lights). But still, I was excited but new things and trying new techniques.
Here are some of the photos ...

 This was (and still is) one of my favourite photos that I took that day. I just love the composition, the catch light in the model's eyes and how focus the face is peering through the rip in the Japanese paper umbrella.

 This photo reminded me of the elegance of Japanese women. The model's rather pale face sticks out in comparison to the rest of the photo making her the complete and main focus.

 I had a fixed fascination on the umbrella and bird cage throughout this shoot, I was constantly trying to find a way to incorporate both in the photos.

 With the success of having the model peer through the umbrella I considered all angles to photograph.

 This photo didn't excite me as much as the first one, the umbrella slightly covered the eyes and didn't give as much of a mysterious look as the first photo. I felt as though the umbrella was too low, although on a positive note, the catch light in the eyes was brilliant.

 This was one of the experimental photos, I feel like the photo could have looked better if the umbrella was moved slightly more up so you could see the eyes through the rip staring at the bird cage.

This photo was another experiment with the levels, I wanted to get the umbrella, cage and fan in the photo but my model only has two hands.

There's Always That Judging Eye

So for one of my projects I've been looking into the concept of 'The Ideal Woman'. While researching I found a professional photographer; Haley Morris-Cafiero. After taking a self-portrait in public Morris-Cafiero noticed that she had people staring at her, to most people that would upset or put off someone on their body image but for Morris-Cafiero it did the exact opposite. She was more intrigued and interested on the idea that she was quickly judged. So she made a set of photos based solely on the concept of her being judged in public.

I found the results of the images rather shocking, isn't it sad that nowadays it's just become the norm to look and judge other people. I've always found it rather frustrating when I see people snigger and stare at others just because they don't fit into the idea of the 'Ideal or Perfect' person.

Below is the link to Haley's website to check out the photos
http://haley-morriscafiero.squarespace.com

Question for today: What do you think about people looking down on others with a judging eye??