Overall evaluation.

Throughout this part of my year at college i have not enjoyed working on the blogger as i have constantly forgotten my password and sign in. I think i have done okay however i think I'm going to stick to doing a sketchbook in the future. If i were to re-do this part of the course (wednesday work) i would have to do it all in a physical sketchbook as i am more confidant that the work will be alright, and i will be more motivated to do the work if its there in front of me as opposed to on a computer screen. I have also had trouble with headaches from sitting and looking at a screen 24/7. My overall conclusion to my blog is that i have done the best i could have, and due to it being on a screen i had not really been able to concentrate properly.

Fujifilm Digital shoot.

 Here are a few of the digital Photographs i took for this shoot, i decided to go with the theme of extreme abstract, this way i could experiment with different ways of shooting my images.  I had hoped to create some more images for my final shoot to send off to the fujifilm competition however my film did not come back to me in time and i still have not gotten it back.

 

John Myers.

John Myers is a midlands based photographer who came in to talk to us about his work. He showed us images from a couple of his collections, images from 'Middle England' and a series photographs of televisions and his 'boring Landscapes' collection.

he began his artistic career studying fine art at university focusing on sculptures he began taking photographs in the 1970's . He uses a Gandolfi plate camera attached to a tri-pod to take his photographs. he also spoke to us about his influences and the photographers that inspired his images, Diane Arbus,

fujifilm research - Tony Howell

Tony Howell is one of England's finest landscape photographers. He has over 30 years experience, and is based in Somerset, near Bristol. His style is recognisable with simple, uncluttered compositions and a sense of peace and stillness borne from a deep love of the natural world. 

Tony Howell's photographs have been used in countless books, calendars, magazines, on BBC TV, in a Hollywood Movie, billboards, brochures, catalogues, greeting cards, posters, postcards, websites, national newspapers, fleets of vans and much more.

He has done work for, National Geographic, The BBC, Christies, Royal Mail, The Tate, The National Trust, Penguin Books, Unicef, The Forestry Commission, and many more.

i like these images of Howell's as i like how he has concentrated on the colours and lines within the image. For my final images i hope to produce some abstract images similar to this however i hope to create a feeling of uncertainty when you look at the image, to try and make the viewer think 'what actually is that?'

Jade Birchnall lecture 1st feb 2012.

Today a former Burton College student Jade Birchnall came in to talk to us about her work and a bit about uni life.

One of her first projects 'yesterday is gone' was a series of portraits of her grandmother who was diagnosed with demensia and so some days she knows where she is and others she is not completely sure. The images she has produced for this are very moving and powerful. Below are a couple of the images she took.

Another project she spoke about are 'The little sisters of the poor' which was based with in a care home run by a group of Catholic Nuns, when contacting the home and asking about carrying out a shoot she had to write up a model release before the nuns let her photograph the residence. She was also given a few guidelines to follow for example the nuns asked her not to put the images she takes onto the internet. She wanted her work to focus on the catholic side of the life but she couldnt photograph some of the nuns.

I enjoyed this talk as she was very open about her experiences and how she came up with some of her ideas for photographs. She spoke about how some of the other students on her course have asked her how she managed to photograph the dominatrix and the strippers to which she replied 'if you don't ask you don't get' which is very true, unless your prepared to ask people if its okay for you to photograph them then you will never know. 

Fujifilm Student Award 2012---- Extreme.

For the next six weeks i have been asked to enter the Fuji film Student Awards. Where we will work with a film camera to produce a series of images with the theme of 'Extreme', we can photograph whatever we want to as long as it links with the main theme. Each year the brief is different last year (2011) the brief was based on the 5 senses, and the year before that (2010) the brief was to design a book cover for a penguin classic called 'At Swim-Two- Birds'.

Previous winners.

Throughout the time that this competition has been running there have been many winners of the different briefs. Each year there is one main winner and around 30 merit winners.
2011's main winner. (clélia Maumene, from Newcastle College, 'Hello Darkness my old friend')

and here are some of the merit winners,

 (Becky Smith, 'an eye for an eye will make the world blind')

(Kelly Anne Tilson, 'braille')

(Linda Blann, 'scream')

2010 Winner. (Anne Marie Atkinson, from Leeds College of Art)

2010 Merit Winners.

 (Amyfern Nuttall, from Edinburgh College of Art.)

 (Gary Chaytor, from Newcastle College)

 (Mark Robinson, from University of Lincoln.)

Fuji film types.

There are many different types of Fuji film to chose from in order to carry out this task, each giving a different textures or styles (e.g. black and white, colour). When choosing your film you must first decide the types of images that you want to take and whether or not they may need a certain film.  you also have to take into account the ISO you intend to use as some films are made to a set ISO and so could be the best one for that set of images.

Definition of extreme.

Word Association. 

EXTREME.

Sport,

Weather,

Heat, 

Wealth, 

Poverty,

Make up,

Cold,

Living,

Heights,

Style,
Emotions,
Homes.

christmas card. December 2011.

We were asked to go out and take photographs to make a christmas card with, as there was not any snow yet and there was not much of a christmassy feeling. So i went out looking for different things that i could take a photograph of and i found the christmas tree in the lobby of the college, i decided to take on obscure photo of the tree among other pictures i took, i would then edit my final chosen image when i got back into the class room and put it onto a card template. Below is my final edited image.