Mundane Realism

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Some more inspiration

www.street-photographers.com

Promo

Here are the photos from the Joe Masini DJ Promo shoot I did the other day:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=97078&id=1275846979&fbid=1699094678632

Join the fanpage if you like!


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Joe Masini

Personal Project - Inspiration

This is pretty much what i'm wanting to do for my personal project.

http://www.mattstuart.com/Photographs/Black-White

Personal Project - Street Photography

So for A2 we have to complete a personal project. We have been given an assignment brief to help us get some idea's together.

I've decided to go with the theme: 'Flaneur' (meaning to 'Stroll' or 'Loaf). My initial ideas are as follows:

1. Go to some of the major cities in the local area (Derby, Nottingham & Birmingham) and sample the atmosphere of the cities on different days. This will then help me determine which day I will do my shoot(s).
2. I want to capture the general public and people in their rawest form. My aim is to gain some extremely natural photographs. These photographs are going to be of: Pigeons (pretty common in most British cities), People (couples allowed) who are just doing their normal routine - some of these photographs will be posed for a better effect and some will be natural. 
3. I will edit most of the photos on the highly reliable Photoshop, and most probably turn them into black and white as I feel this is most effective. 

When taking pictures of the general public, there are always going to be ethical issues. Some people really don't like to have their picture taken, therefore, if I do take a picture of somebody I will always try and tell them afterwards what my project/aim is and show them the picture, hopefully, because no personal or identifiable information is being taken they should be okay with it all. If not, I'm going to have to delete the pictures just out of sheer respect for the person(s). 

Im going to complete for light research on some artists which deal with Street photography: Henry Cartier-Bresson, Martin Parr and maybe: Lee Friedlander, Harry Callahan, Alexander Rodchenko.

Promo

Im glad to see that some of the work that I did for Luvstuff is hitting the Internet hard.

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=139906709373710

&

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Luvstuff/196776243565


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Outside Portraiture

Good Evening To Whom It May Concerners,

Today - I learnt how to take effective photos with lighting equipment (outside). 

The equipment it self, is pretty simple and basic to set up. For all those interested, we used Bowens, Gemini lights.

Here are the settings we used:

• ISO: 100
• Flash: 1/16
• Aperture: 5.6

If the pictures were too dark, were were able to change the ISO higher and decrease the shutter speed. 

The pictures in the previous blog, there are pictures of the lovely Diana would voluntarily helped us out as a model. Here are some more of the pictures:

Diana

Night Shots: Slow Shutter Speed

Bonjourno All,

The Statues Fair was in town last night (which then moves to Nottingham to join the infamous Goose Fair) so I thought it would be a great opportunity to capture some slow-shutter shots with motion blur.

I used the following equipment and settings:

Equipment:

• 1x DSLR Camera
• 1 x Tripod
• 1 x Camera Assistant
• 1 x Slice of Carrot Cake

Settings:

• I originally set my aperture at F22, and lowered this if my images were too dark.
• ISO: 100
• And with these settings; I then chose how long my shutter speed was going to be. I generally picked around 15-20seconds.

So here are the eagerly anticipated images, which have had a bit of liposuction and botox. 

Push It

Here is just a picture that I took of my Salt and Pepper shakers yesterday. Did some basic editing and now I think it looks quite effective. Thought i'd share.

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Light Drawings

Dear all,

Here are some light drawings that I created just the other night. It took me a while to get everything set up (with the right apperture/lighting) but once I got going it was all good. After a few practices are some; what can only be described as 'poor' attempts, myself and William came up with some good ideas and we swiftly put them into practise.

If you're genuinely interested in Light Drawings and you're thinking to yourself, 'how does that clever lad Eoin do those?' then i'm going to tell you in these easy to follow, step-by-step guide to Light Drawings:

1. You will need 2 or more people
2. 1x Camera
3. 1x  Tripod
4. 1x Torch
5. 1x patience and creativity.

After you have successfully assembled your team and equipment you're ready to go!

1. You need to set your camera to 'BULB' this can be found at the bottom of the Shutter Speeds.
2. Please camera on Tripod and sort out your surroundings.
3. After this, you will need one person to HOLD DOWN the Shutter [button] whilst the other(s) are creating the Light Drawing.
4. The people creating the image will need to have a torch and be aware that they don't want to get themselves into the picture! They will also need to move the torch around quite slowly to gain a better quality image.
5. When the image in complete, simply release the SHUTTER and VIOLA! Your Light Drawing is created! 
6. Easy Peasy - i'm sure you'll agree.

P.S: You will need to think about what ISO (sensitivity of the film) number the camera is set at. Whilst creating my own images I had the following: BULB, ISO: 100

I hope you find this useful :)

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Will Govus

Here is some work by the highly talented Will Govus. A great portrait and landscape photographer. If you like what you see below; be sure to check out some more of his work. 

I will be taking a lot of inspiration from Govus in my own Portrait work. Look out for that  :)

Bill Henson

Bill Henson everybody. A great photography, specialising in Portraiture. Most of Henson's work tends to contain young, adolescent girls/boys. And as you can Imagen this has landed him in a bit of a pickle when it comes to the law. However, Bill produces some great work and I will be taking mass inspiration from him when it comes to my Portraits.

Work for a friend

Some more Photography work