Orrell Water Park

I have presented two images from this shoot as my final two. The weather was not particularly great which made it difficult to capture images that wouldn't need much edited as I am completely against serious editing. I think the two images above contrast extremely well together. In the left image the model is innocently depcited almost as a bride in the white dress that she is wearing. With the calm lake behind her it creates a sense of tranquility and innocence that suits her pose and her facial emotion and expression perfectly. In the image on the right it is much more fierce with the attire she is wearing that is almost skin tight you get a kind of amazon feel as if she were a native in some kind of jungle. The way her hair falls back creates a beautiful drape down to her arm. The very dark background covered in leaves in very different and much more wild than the calm lake which shows how much you can achieve from one location.

Here I have another four images from the Haigh Hall shoot but this time focusing on the cream dress. I found that this shot beautifully against the creamy wooden walls and doors and especially against the old floral wallpapers that were still covering the rooms. As the colours are naturally very de-saturated they look very dated but this is something I like about the images as it makes them a little more quirky. Again you have the very seductive nature of the imagery due to the very glamourous attire and the fact they seem to be dated which makes you think of Hollywood glamour which is wonderful.

Here are a few more images from the Haigh Hall shoot although these four are showing the blue dress which looks so vivid against the very grey surroundings. The material in the bottom of this dress looks amazing on camera because it's so delicate and rich and it brings an elegance to the images making the model just come across as completely fabulous. The glamour also brings the essence of seduction which is exaggerated by the doll like poses and the dark lips adding that little bit extra to the images.

My most recent shoot was at Haigh Hall, Haigh. We managed to get into the attic which is not open to the public after a lot of grovelling to the manager. After we explained exactly what we were doing and that we weren't going to exspose the notorious top floor of the hall to the newspapers he let us in. The rooms were incredible and just like the RAF base there was some fabulous natural light, unfortunately there wasn't as much as at the base but there was still a nice amount to play with.

The two images above are two of my favourite from the shoot and believe me I was lucky enough to find it very hard to narrow it down to a few favourite images. All in all the shoot was very successful as there was such an amazing contrast between the glamour of the dresses and the beautiful dying surroudings of the attics at Haigh Hall.



An image from Croft RAF base.

I visited with a friend who needed her work photographing and the images we came out with as a team were lovely. The lighting in the run down base is incredible. I have learned to LOVE natural light due to images like the one above where the light just falls beautifully through gaps in buildings and trees. Natural light was something I had avoided as I was obsessed with sticking to what I knew which was the studio and therefore the Bowen lights we have at college where my best friends. I find the light in this image just stunning to look at due to the symmetrical nature of the gaps in the wall and the way the light falls onto her head and down in a V shape. It's places like this old run down RAF base where you can find the most incredible natural light as the man made skeleton of the building is still intact and needs to be used for something.

As I have previously visited Croft in a previous unit many of the images are for her work rather than my own so I've only chosen a few to put into my sketchbook and present at the exhibition. This one above is my favourite from the series.



(Click on seperate images to see movement)

These three cinemagraphs are amazing! They are exactly what I'm looking for for that extra special something in my exhibition. I love how they are just slightly moving, especially the effect of the hair as the hair looks stunning in slight movement.

As I'm travelling to Wales this weekend with my three models for inspiration and a change of scenery I'm going to try this out to see where it gets me.

As we are all approaching the final few days of AF the tension is getting HIGH! I've done some designs for my final exhibition digitally so I could have a better visual on what the imagery I am working with at the moment would look like. As I still have a few shoots to complete this weekend and the final one being on the deadline itself, next Wednesday, I need to be prepared on what sizes and what types of paper I want my images to be printed on to.

The problems I'm facing with my imagery at the moment is whether I want to use one model for all my images or have a mixture of models around the room. At the moment I have models, Ally Clark, Sam Lane, Jess Jones and Sally Lyon. I am much more fond of the Jess and Ally images although Ally is much more prominent in the images I have selected. The film I am using at the moment is simply the male model Sam. I'm not sure whether this will unbalance the exhibition or whether it even matters.

Although as I don't have all my imagery yet to work with I'm going to have to plan with what I've got and leave options for substitutes if I choose to make any next week. One thing I do know is that there will be a mixture of greyscale and colour photography which I can definitely not have on the same wall as they will clash in a very unflattering way. My plan as you can see previously is to have them on separate walls. I also want the room to be very dark so the film will create it's own light and I can have spotlights on each group or on each piece of still photography.

Whether or not I include the moving image is another problem I need to address over the next few days as I may not even need it in the final exhibition. Coming to a conclusion I know that I have the film ready to be put into my exhibition if I need it and if I decide to not to include it, it will be played on my blog during the show anyway.

Golden Girl

Model - Ally Clark
Fashion Design - India Blanchard.

These are my favourite four images from the shoot. The pictures are black and white because the dress simply looks stunning. It almost lights up as if it's made out of gold material.

Exploring the location.

Sefton Park

Models - Ally Clark, Jess Jones.

Fashion Designer and Stylist - India Blanchard.

Below are the first few images from the shoot at Sefton Park, Liverpool. Having the fashion designer with me on the shoot worked fabulously as we were able to work together to find areas on location that would complement the dresses. The dresses are partly made out of latex which is a material I had never had experience in photographing before and as it was a fashion shoot to advertise the attire I needed to learn how to work with it very quickly.

The few I have chosen here are from an area of Sefton Park where we played about in the grass to gain a selection of beauty shots of the two models separately and together. I shot with a vivid effect to pick up the very bright colours of the surroundings as I wanted them to contrast well with the two bright dresses instead of having the background fading away. The colour is something I have never really explored before either being a much more greyscale photographer, but in this instance I'm happy with the way they have turned out, adding a bit of colour to the rest of my work.