I don't think I could feel much lower than what I do... sure I now have 2 jobs but I am so unhappy with myself it's ridiculous. I'm everything which I didn't want to be. 


Photography related: I went into town to try do some architecture photography at night... I don't think it was successful however I need to look through my images and edit those which I want to work with.

I thought I'd read up on bracketing today and the first thing I read was "First of all, the D3000 does not have auto-bracketing.  So, you will need to do this manually." meaning I've been doing my differently exposed images in the best way (which I think) possible. Can't complain. 

5 x 4 pinhole camera scan (: scanned by my lovely friend Ruth: Her facebook page! 

5 x 4 large format sheet (tray developing)
Ilford FP4 ISO 125

Kodak D76 developer
1:1
20degrees
11 minutes developing time.

Fix for 7 minutes

http://www.ilfordphoto.com/Webfiles/2010712125850702.pdf 

I'm really excited to use the large format 5 x 4 camera in college :3 *happy*

Photoshop time.

Today has been one of the most stressful days yet and it was only a test shoot. I am both looking forward to and absolutely dreading the real thing. 
Everything started going wrong from the very beginning. 
I'm still stressing about it now and it's hours afterwards... at least we have images and Toni & Guy willing to help with hair. 


Most applicable saying at the moment would be: 'If you want something done, do it yourself.'

working in a team is so stressful... especially when I'm a headstrong person.

AAAAARGH. D: *facepalm*

I had a brainwave! With my slightly creepy photographs of my zombie and gas mask and such, I am going to name them gore-traits. Now to create a Facebook page so I can share my amazing idea. haha :)

Today feels very productive so far in terms of getting college assignments and test shoots sorted! Me and Joanne found a hair stylist for our Toni & Guy inspired shoot and have a model ready to come in on our selected day. We now need to find a make-up artist and outfits and we'll be pretty much prepared for one of our hopefully 3 models.

Tonight I have to finish my first draft of my personal statement, gather everything for my architecture and Toni & Guy briefs, read 20 pages of langfords basic photography and write down questions... 


I struggle to read even at the best of times as I get bored easily so 20 pages of a book which is based on pure fact and knowledge is going to be easy. 

Our plan to go London today was cut short when we arrived in college however we did get to wonder the streets of Peterborough and look for modern and interesting buildings which we could practise bracketing with to then merge into HDR images. It's safe to say that Peterborough is uninspiring and is not very modern compared to other cities but I think we're getting there slowly!

Time to look at all of the buildings in London which I've researched and to put them all on some form of map which can be understood easily to then show our tutor tomorrow for ideas of where we can visit for architecture photography. 

Today in Queensgate we had a student lock in for all the students in college and university to come and enjoy some free music, discounts and freebies. Local Peterborough band The Whisky Jax played and I thought it'd be a good opportunity to test out the Canon camera and 50mm f1.4 lens which I had borrowed from college earlier the day. I took it out to try some portraiture so taking some portraits of the band performing was a good opportunity for me. I need to go and edit my RAW images but this was one of the JPEGS which I took getting use to the camera.