Touch was the title of the brief I gave myself this week. Again I won't bore you with the complete thing.

I left it a bit wide open on purpose, I had about 3 minutes left to upload the brief and still hadn't decided what I should do. Organised as always!

As for the result...

I think the lack of focus and meaning really shows through with these images. They aren't bad looking (excluding the middle one) just a bit plain and don't suggest or ask anything from you.It probably doesn't help they are in fact a preview of a larger series, simply because thats what my brief asked for.

This is the end of our one week briefs project and I'm not sure if I'm relieved or worried about going back to the long term way of doing things...

Sure long term is less pressure but is that a good thing? I've had ups and downs the last 5 weeks but I have come out the other side with quite a few ideas that I think almost worked and definitely have more to give.

I have a good idea for a long term project,

A good starting point for some more fashion studio work

and even something for some fashion based location stuff.

So I have to admit, all though I wasn't a fan of this project at the beginning, I now see the benefit.One week briefs;

Brilliant for generating lots of interesting ideas but as for generating good work.... hmm not so sure.

Time machine!

Christmas party tonight!

Sat waiting for Jen to get ready (as always) waiting to go pre-drink at the house of Dans.

So as well as starting drinking while I wait I thought I'd have a look through some of my old pictures, found this Gem that is always going to frustrate me!

Took it when I was young, innocent and naive, I had never heard of this mysterious RAW format and shot it as a jpeg. This has annoyed me ever since.

I love this photo but look at it on any large scale and, well you can't.

So here's a quick preview until I eventually get round to properly putting in some time to fix it up.

Sorry it's a little dark, still not found the best way to convert things to jpeg without the colours doing what they please. 


I'm looking to reshoot this image as soon as I find someone that I think will work. I lit the original with the glow from a large LCD TV but I've been told by my girlfriend this isn't a good enough excuse to go and buy one for myself.
Gutted. 

Brief 4!

The result of this weeks project.

Left a tiny bit late as always but came out ok I think.

Each week we have to give ourselves a almost professional brief. Real world kinda stuff.

I won't bore you with the full brief but I created one that was a gallery commission to create a miniseries.

They supposedly wanted a set from 3 to 8 images around the theme "sleep and consciousness"

This is supposedly my preview submission of just 3 out of 8.

If this was real I would have made a book (square, roughly 30cm sides)

I am still thinking about a name for it or if it needs one at all.

I don't know if its too ambiguous for people to get it themselves as they look through, which is what I would prefer but I don't want to give it away straight off with the title.

Oh and I forgot to say I'm thinking of doing it as a long term project with dozens or maybe over a hundred pages which I guess would make the theme/meaning more apparent.

Anyway, it would be nice to hear what you think.

(pssst, just incase... it's about what we think about as we are trying to get to sleep)

Been a while.

Sorry about taking so long. I haven't been doing much recently due a combination of bad weather and lots of new xbox games coming out!

Bad I know.

Anyway these are two images for the last two week long briefs, I'm not too excited about the xbox shot but it feels like an image that could easily be used for some editorial purposes. The wools shot... I love the idea and I can see real potential but it's on of those times where I just struggled to translate the image in my head into the camera.

Phew...

Done & Dusted!

These are what my final prints from my latest college project.

Deadline is 10.30am TODAY!

I had everything printed off in plenty of time yesterday but I'm still messing about with my logbook now.

All I seem to be doing is cutting and pasting constantly.

Anyway, I really wanna know what you think and if you can even get the slightest hint of my meaning from these images. They are not perfect but I've done worse.

Now, back to the Relentless.

And again...

I think I've become addicted to posting!

Two in one day, I must be losing it.

This shot is nice and fresh, I took it about half an hour ago in the still life studio.

It still needs a little work but I just wanted to show of my lego skillzzz!

Poof.

Since the first years are doing their abstract project at the minute, I thought I'd post one of my 5x4 shots from last year.

I miss using the large format cameras but then again...

I don't miss:

the hugely expensive film,

loading fiddly bits of film in pure darkness,

having to do maths when calculating exposure times

and

finding out after all that I've done something slightly wrong and the shot is ruined!

So what I really mean when I say I miss 5x4 is...

I don't?

Ahh one day I'll be able to afford a digi back and then I can stop moaning!

My Bridge

Another shot from Manchester when I was over helping Alan out.

Thought I'd occupy myself while Alan was rabbiting on about something boring to do with bridges.

Alan's Bridges.

I had a trip to Manchester at the weekend to help my buddy Alan out.

He's going to be civil engineer and needed some pictures of bridges and buildings

around Manchester to draw.

Not Great photos I know but they served Alan's purpose and I had a pretty good

weekend.

p.s. sorry about the huge images. They are there for Alan to copy and save for his drawing work. 

From the first shoot I did for my current project.

Nothing serious, it was mainly to just get me going.

I'm going to be looking at where our interests come from

and how they evolve as we grow older.

Outdoor Adventure.

Thought I'd bug some of the wildlife as I was helping

my girlfriend with her shoot.

Turns out,

only the Geese like to pose...

Crash... Ctrl Alt Delete, Restart.

Time to start again.

(as Google thought it best to lock me out of my old account)

These were a few Images I had lying around.

The first is a view from the back of my family home and the second is from some woods nearby.

the last two are from Uni projects last year.

What do you think?