Rose Photoshoot

I had to take some photos of flowers today, harshly lit with a bicycle light. I used a rose because we had a vase full from my mum's birthday and they are starting to look a little dead which I thought added to the effect.

I know I don't post too much of my Photography stuff (mostly because I know it's all bollocks) but I'm rather happy with how these came out and we haven't posted since Monday and I don't want you to think we've forgotten about this blog because we really haven't, it just hasn't been a very inspirational week.

Linophobia

I just wanted to show you guys this work I did in Photography today, since it's one of the few things that I've done and actually like.

My work is all based on fears and phobias, so I took this hand mannequin that Miss had in the cupboard and positioned it based on a "drowning man" and then wrapped string around it because the piece was to be focused on linophobia - the fear of string. Also, the string is supposed to represent how irrational phobias "constrict" a person's everyday life (blah blah photography student shit blah blah) and then I added all the text using Photoshop which took forever but overall I think it's pretty good.

What do you guys think?

Issues

Today I got my exam paper for my Photography exam, and I don't really like any of the questions I've been given, I had a choice of:

• Contrasts
• Musicians and Instruments
• Issues
• Home
• Multiple Image

I've decided to focus on Issues, and look further into fears and phobias, particularly weird phobias. Here are some of my favourites:

Aerophobia: Fear of swallowing air

Arachibutyrophobia: Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.

Batophobia: Fear of being close to high building

Chionophobia: Fear of snow

Dextrophobia: Fear of objects at the right side of the body

Genuphobia: Fear of knees

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia: Fear of long words

Octophobia: Fear of the number 8

Paraskavedekatriaphobia: Fear of Friday the 13th

Selenophobia: Fear of the moon

Xanthophobia: Fear of the color yellow 

Currently my idea is to simply take photos of the things that people are scared of and luckily most of them are inanimate objects as I found it really difficult to take photos of people last time, I'm just no good at bossing them about!

How was your Monday?

Photo blues

Today I realised that I have a mere two weeks in which I need to photograph, edit and put together my final piece for my Photography coursework, before I get my exam paper at the beginning of February.

Needless to say, this panicked me a little, especially since in that time I need to:

• Do a reshoot
• Do two photographer-inspired shoots
• Do all four of my final shoots

It doesn't sound much, but when I have to organise people it feels like such a ball-ache. I'm not entirely sure that I knew what I was setting myself up for by doing Photography. But I don't like it, it's dull.

The photographers I have to copy are:

Diane Arbus

  

And Bill Brandt 

  

Sometimes, I wonder exactly who Miss thinks I know and are willing to let me take their photo. 

Sorry for this very boring and self-absorbed post, somehow the more I talk about it, the more I feel like I'm actually doing something about it, even when I'm not.

Relationship Photoshoot #2

I edited the photos from last weekend's Relationship Photoshoot today in my Photography lesson.

If any of you reading this happen to be Photoshop whizzes - do you know a technique where I can select the hair so it looks more natural and less cut out, especially when I'm putting them onto a new (not plain white) background?

Thanks for reading!

Relationshiops photoshoot

On Saturday night, I managed to con Hannah (of Doubleyou fame) and her boyfriend to come over to my house and have a photoshoot. The theme was relationships; good and bad.
I borrowed my brother's DSLR (I trusted myself with it since I wasn't leaving the house) to make the photos more dynamic however I also had difficulties when it came to focusing - resulting in a lot of fuzzy photos.

Here are some of my favourites (pre Photoshop)

 

 

Thankyou for looking!

 

 

 

Nan Goldin photoshoot

Today in Photography, I was told to do a Photoshoot in order to recreate the works of Nan Goldin. Hannah modelled for me (cheers Han) and she wanted you guys to see the results (pre-Photoshop)
I've put the original photos by Nan Goldin above my versions; let me know what you think!

 

 

I couldn't recreate the iconic One Month After Being Battered today, I'm hoping that will come one day when Hannah can come over and we can raid my make-up bag.