update!

Once again it's been a while since I've posted on here however I've got a lot to update on!

I've moved away from Peterborough and I am now living in Nottingham about to start my photography degree at Nottingham Trent University!

All of my photography equipment has moved in from home so I have two shelves covered in the stuff.

My induction for the course starts on Monday then the week after my lectures begin.

I shall be posting more regularly again when I get tasks set and have more photography related news to post about!

Dream Walking

Everybody dreams; when we sleep our imagination runs wild creating scenarios which can be surreal and fantastical. They can even relate to what goes on around our day to day life or induce a feeling of ‘Déjà vu’. However bizarre or ordinary they are, we tend to vividly remember parts of them or have no recollection at all. 

For me photography is an outlet for my own dreams and imagination to become a visualised reality in which I can share with other people. I aim to manipulate natural spaces and transform them, questioning reality. My work is there as a reflection of my own dreams in a finer detail bringing them to life. 

Being inspired and influenced heavily by the work of the American photographer Brooke Shaden whose work explores death and surrealism, I have been inspired for my series of images using every day natural scenes; turning them into dreamlike realms from my dreams. 

After not posting on here for a while and for abusing my blog I'm going to give you all a massive update on what's been going on.

The members in Awkward Noise and Three Point Four managed to pull it all together and get the exhibition up and ready and the preview evening went down smoothly on Tuesday 26th June with a lot of familiar faces and good feedback was received! I will upload all of my images in the series being exhibited in the next few days.

It's also the end of the academic year and a final last minute rush to get all assignments handed in and up to the right grades which hopefully will be done.

All in all, it's been a very busy and productive past few weeks!

This is my latest photo shoot towards my exhibition images which will be on show in two weeks time! Like usual, edits and final images will be uploaded when I can.

So I have realised I've not posted in a while so I have a few more images for my exhibition to show and also today I've been planning how I'll be placing my photographs on the wall and where.

This is a rough idea for now but to give you an idea:

I did a shoot yesterday with Joanne as well; below is an unedited JPEG image from what I was doing!

Doing some more editing for my final images from a previous shoot; this will be included in a video going alongside the exhibition so that'll be uploaded on our blog/website when it's complete!

So far so good with editing my images from yesterday; this is the best one from my set so I've chsen to use this as a final one. My only problem with it is the wristbands on my model however I've been told there aren't such a problem so I'm going to leave them be and concentrate on the rest of the image (even though still irritating me).

I may even be tempted to reshoot this image but to expand the book pages out further and to attach the pages to a piece of material so they won't blow away and make it easier for me.