BLACK AND WHITE STUDIO PORTRAIT OF NORA.

STUDIO PORTRAIT OF JOEL. USING DRAMATIC LIGHTING.

STUDIO PORTRAIT OF KAYLEIGH. LOMO EFFECT WITH A VIGNETTE.

The other image that I will be displaying within a gallery.

ABANDONED SOFA.

One of the pieces of work i will be displaying in a gallery.

DOCUMENTARY/PORTRAITURE ON LOCATION IN EXMOUTH.

This is a portrait I took on a memorial stand within Exmouth town centre. The current project that i'm working on and personally i'm looking at combining and separating portraiture and documentary photography. On location, this was one of my favorite images from the day. I managed to capture her very natural and off guard and with a genuine expression of her giggling, this is why i like it so much, because it isn't staged. I also love the lighting and the colors in the background really bring her out as the main subject. 

MODEL: Nora Parkes.
LOCATION: Exmouth. 

Portfolio Prep; Image 3:

This photo was a project where we were told to recreate a famous painting. The painting i chose to recreate was "American Gothic." by Grant Wood. 
The style of the original painting is very old fashioned, and captured the lifestyle of two people at that time. I wanted to recreate this image, but put a bit of a modern twist onto my own. With this idea, i decided to use both my brother and his girlfriend as my subjects, because of their style and look. However, I wanted to keep the staple properties of the image, so i kept the looks and angles of the subjects. I also replaced the pitchfork with a skateboard to keep with the modern theme. But i also wanted to keep the pitched roof idea, so i shot the picture in front of our local church, which keeps with the idea of people in their local environment, which is in the original painting. The colours in the painting are very low key and washed out, and "dull" in a way. None of them are very vibrant, but i think that was the idea to reflect what the painting was about. Because my image is almost the opposite, i tried to use extremely bright, vibrant colours and tried to show a lot of contrast. I think that this worked for my image and that is why it's one of my most successful images.

PORTFOLIO PREP; IMAGE TWO.

This is the second image that i'm most proud of. it's a black and white 35mm film shot. i was really happy with the outcome because i thought i captured a lot of detail and contrast between the shadows and highlights. Before this shoot on textures all my previous black and white film shoots that i had attempted i was really unhappy with and the quality was awful. However, this shoot came out brilliantly, all the images i took came out really clearly, but this one in particularly was my favourite. It represents the task; texture, you can see the threads of the rope and the focus has captured what i wanted it to. It's one i'm most proud of. It shows that i can produce effective film and darkroom work and not just digitally based photos.