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! 

Today I had my interview at Swansea Metropolitan University and it went extremely well. 


They commended me for having a portfolio box and archival sleeves to show my work in and really liked my images! They said I spoke about my work really well too and the only thing they'd give advice with would be to put more into an ideas journal as it's one thing they require in the course in terms of coursework. 


They gave me a conditional offer and said I should have no problem achieving the grades I'm predicted with my standard of work. 

Final edits from my Bunny test shoot! Next step will be to look for props and different outfits and locations. 

Above are two final images from my shoot with my friend Tara for one of my assignments around the word 'glitter'. These were shot in a studio against a white background using a single beauty dish. 


Below are two images also from this same assignment but with my friend Luke with a different approach. These were taken in my model's house against a plain wall with a flashgun attached to my camera.

I have also edited two final images from my first Bunny test shoot which I will upload later on today so I don't spam with lots of posts and images! 

Above are two unedited images from my picture taking yesterday! I'm going to sort through the images properly and come up with at least 2 final ones which I will expand upon in the future. 


I also had a go at creating a GIF in Photoshop from still frames:

It's not very good and there are things I want to change about it; one being the frame speed but for my first attempt, I'm relatively pleased with it! and it took over an hour to make because of my poor laptop.