Promoting our exhibition at the Truman Brewery

With a new blog dedicated to just that

You can find the blog to our ‘Patience exhibition’,Here

The Great Gatsby

So, here is one of my final images from my last project, I based the project on the book/film The Great Gatsby. I had a set of six images which I depicted traits from each of the six main characters from the book. I hope you enjoy, Dom x

Where studying Photography will get you…

Your Boss asking you to do Club photography…

I never thought I’d end up along this route, nor wanted too when I first decided to study Photography. But it seems to have happened anyway, and this isn’t the first club I’ve been asked to photograph either. Though it’s great going out of my comfort zone, getting experience and having ‘Get your photo taken by resident photographer Gema’ blasted out over the music, I very much dislike putting my camera and flash gun at risk in a crowd full of drunks. But at the end of the day, It’s great having my photos appreciated after being posted on line!

Here’s just a few pictures of the kind of thing I’ve been doing. Pretty standard as it goes.

We present an exhibition of Portraiture

Lights! Camera! Action!

Second year foundation photography students work..

The 2nd Year class completed a three day job of covering the Harold Jolliffe One-Act Play Festival on Saturday 14th April. The festival has been running since 1947 and gives local amateur production groups the chance to perform their play to an adjudicator, with a range of prizes to be won for the best.

With photographing the productions, the awards ceremony, and offering the actors and producers portraits, the whole event was a steep learning curve for all involved. Photographing from a small lighting booth, from the back of the studio, with challenging lighting conditions, needed a lot of thinking on our feet. Plus directing the actors for portraits after coming off stage into position needed quick judgement.

A great set of images were produced and the organiser, Ashley Heath is looking forward to the arrangement being a long-term partnership for the college.

Please visit this link to see the second years pictures on the Harold Joliffe One Act Play Festival’s website (Bit of a mouthful!)

Also, to see all their sets of images from this event, please visit their flickr page, Smile Photography

Swindon Act; Photo by Richard Maidment

Dead Meat Productions; Photo by Richard Maidment

Swindon Act; Photo by Kat Mabbot/ Jenny Langan

Posted By Gema Bird, Written by Jon Ratcliffe

Recreating an Image

For one of the lighting set-up exercises, the group had to choose a portrait image and then explore the used lighting set-up and then try to recreate theimage. This is my example of recreating an image; I chose the photograph of Clint Eastwood as I loved the way the image was visually presented and how clear the detail of Eastwood’s face was. I also love the expression on his face, really sums up his persona.

I’m really happy with the outcome however if I could reshoot it again, I would be a lot more precise with the back lighting as they don’t quite match however I think there are similarities and I thought this was a fun and helpful exercise.

Vicky

Eccentricity

For my portraiture module I have been photographing “eccentric” people. Here are a few snaps I have taken of my friend Kerry. I shot these images on a disposable camera. My main source of inspiration were images shown at the Dazed and Confused exhibition shot by Juergen Teller.

Click here to view the exhibitions website.

Dom x

Studio Work

Here’s a few of my favourite images that I took in the studio this week. I haven’t had much experience in the studio but I am loving it! I found the lighting set-up exercise really interesting and fun so heres a few of my favourites. Hope you enjoy!
Vicky 🙂

Studio Work from Niki

Here’s a few examples of Niki’s work in the studio. Her project is called ‘The Dressing Up Box.

“I want to show children in a series of different outfits and mask and let them show me their personality within that costume. Children act differently when in costumes than when in their everyday clothing.They take on a role and hopefully this is revealed to the camera. Using my own children and my Boyfriends two children, the age range is 5 to 14 , but will mainly be using the 5 and 6 year olds as younger children understand it more and are fearless.”

Studio Work from Lee

Here is a few examples of Lee’s work; The top one was taken in London, apart of his documentary project, the second was taken in the studio showing two every different lighting set-ups which we had to do as part of our Portraiture Lighting Book. And the third image was also taken in the studio showing the Short Lighting set-up.