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.

Amelia Beavis-Harrison. Talk.

Amelia Beavis-Harrison came in to talk to us about her work. She is an artist and curator based in Nottingham, alongside her freelance work she also started up and runs the Lincoln Art Programme which is a live art commissioning body. Her work is created based on histories, mythologies, situations, conversations and the production of art. During 2010/11 she set herself a project based on challenges, she set up a facebook group and asked the public to challenge her, she would then pick a challenge and complete one a month for 12 months. throughout the duration of this project the challenge choice changed from picking the most challenging each month to choosing a challenge that would fit the artistic ideas she had in mind.

March challenge.

To list and act appropriately towards all the people to whom you owe apologies.

Challenged by Tom Duggan.

June challenge.

Test your physical and mental agility to the limit by appearing on a television quiz show or game show.

Challenged by Anneka French 

December challenge.

'Celebrate new year's eve as if it would be already Friday, December 31st of the year 9999. Invite people living already in the future.'

Challenged by Julian Klein

Above are a few of the images she took to prove she completed the challenges that were set for her.

to view more of her work see the link below.
www.ameliabeavisharrison.com

Erik Knudsen talk review.

Erik Knudsen is a photographer/film director, born in Ghana to a Danish father and a Ghanian mother.

He came in to give us a talk about his work and how it might link to our current work, i think his work is very inspirational especially in the way he has used know words in a couple of the mini films as the everyday noises of what was going on around him were more powerful than any script could portray.
His work would have linked really well with the first assignment that we were given which was mixed heritage, however we were doing the second assignment at the time. He tries to show that poverty is not just limited to the poor, but can be found in many different places for example the lack of equipment to use on photo shoots that could be seen as a type of poverty.

He has created films called, 'Vainilla Chip', 'The Silent Accomplice', 'Heart of Gold', and 'One Day Tafo'.
His films incorporate the sounds of the environment and are rarely scripted, this is because the films tend to have more of an impact on the viewer without throwing meaningless words over the top. the film 'One Day Tafo' incorporates video footage shot by his father in the 50's. The film goes beyond the anthropological and socio-political issues that are shown in most films about Africa.
For more information and the videos click the link below.
www.onedayfilms.com/page/erik-knudsen

Jill Cole photographer, photo canopy.

Wednesday 18th January 2012,
Jill Cole came in to talk about her work over the past year within The National Forest.  She lives and works in North Yorkshire, when we first met Jill Cole her work revolved around humanely catching birds so that she could photograph them. She became involved with the photo canopy project when she was approached   by Chris Beech and asked to be the artist in residence, she says this project has helped to develop coherence in her work. she showed us a set of ten images to help us get a feel for what her work looks like.
Below are a selection of the images she has currently uploaded to her website from previous projects.

write and fold task. Photo montage.

For this task we were asked to create a photograph that involves a certain amount of different words.
We were asked to get these words by doing something similar to the consequences game where one person wrote a word then folded the paper and somebody else wrote the next word and so on and so forth.

We had to incorporate five different things and they were.
1. Write down the name of a colour
2. Write down the name of an object
3. Write down a random word
4. Write down a line of your favourite lyrics.
5. Write down a number.

the answers i got were,
1. Pink,
2, Roundabout,
3. Chilli,
4. 'Amazing just the way you are' from Bruno Mars' song amazing.
5. my number is 7.

It took me a while to try and work out how i was going to take this photograph, and i puzzled and puzzled for ages before a came up with the image i have now.

its not very good but with the time i had its the best i could do and as i was not sure how i was going to do it i literally just threw this image together.

Still life photography - food.

Still life photography is photography that is of inanimate objects, for example food, teddy bears anything that is not alive and breathing.

My image.