This is the very beginning of the editing to this picture I have taken to go towards my Final Major Exhibition! There's a before and after close up and then a zoomed out one to show how it looks.

My group decided on the name 'Awkward Noise' for our exhibition so we will be promoting the event which will be showing our work a lot in the next few weeks!  

Two unedited photographs from today with Joanne in Whittlesey for my Final Major Project; in my series I'm going to be exploring sleep and dreams in a fine art and surreal way. I shall be uploading edited images before the end of the week and explaining where I'm going to go from here. 

Going to be doing some shooting for my final major project today! Also I'm going to try do some more work on my documentary piece so I'll be getting some pictures up within the next few days!

This is a very small preview from the beginning of a documentary piece I'm undertaking based around the Polish community in Peterborough; a young woman who works in the Polish shop on Broadway.

I shall be uploading potential ideas and some more images for this series over the weekend! 

The past two days have been spent looking on the streets of Peterborough for interesting and unique characters to take photographs of in the style of Lee Jeffries. The top image is of Peat which is close to completion. The second image is of my grandad which I am yet to convert to black and white but it's a look into the early stages of the editing process I've been going through.

These are another two images of sitters which are in the process of being edited! Final edits shall be uploaded before the end of the weekend.

The past week has been spent formulating a narrative and visual ideas behind what I want to do for my final major project; after having presented my two pitches it was evident I need a reason for doing what I want to do and not just for the sake of it so I've looked into my chosen photographers work and have decided I'm going to explore dreams in my work.

I'll be uploading some sketches of ideas in the next few days!

Here are my two entrants for the D & AD student awards which I'm going to be entering in the very near future. I need to work on my 200-400 work rationale for it and wait for uploading to be back up and running then I'll be all good to enter!

For the past few hours I've been doing some editing to my photographs from Saturday evening, this is the image which I have put my time and effort into. This is how it looks with my ordinary adjustments changed and some use of the spot healing brush tool. I am going to keep this image as a final one which I may add to my portfolio and continue a series.    

For the D & AD awards the brief is about creating a 2D image appear to be more 3D; as my initial plan of taking a white polystyrene ball and positioning it in multiple places in my image like that of Brooke Shaden fell through as I couldn't find the right props so I decided to use some new skills of mine and use Photoshop to create light orbs. This meant my image won't be the same as hers and will have my own touch to it. I know the orbs don't look very realistic and I probably need to add more to make it look more fantasy-like however this shall be for later on so I can give myself a break from it and so I can go back to revise it.


I have also decided I am going to continue this as my own project but rather than using balls or Photoshop created orbs, use something else which I am currently not going to let onto as the floating object! 




Lyrics from a song I currently enjoy an awful lot:

I don't mind it, I don't mind if you're overrated. Or if you're staring at the edge of the world.But keep in mind that I'm a sore eye, with blurry vision.But I can see yeah it has to be you love, that I've been dreaming of.And if we climb this high, I swear we'll never die.

Of Mice & Men - My Understandings  

Two unedited JPEG images from my picture taking today towards my submission for the D & AD student awards 2012 inspired by Brooke Shaden.

They've turned out fairly well for what I had in mind however it got very dark quickly and my images didn't turn out as clean as I would've liked them to so I may just use these as environmental portraits rather than for my actual submission then re-shoot!