Saturday, June 18
Wednesday, June 15
Centenary Cup: A Photo Slideshow
The Centenary Cup is an audio visual competition at Walthamstow & District Photo Society where the members are encouraged to create slideshows accompanied by music or spoken word or present their photos of photographic slides or in print. They should choose a series of photos connected by a theme.
I chose to show some of my Hipstamatic photos and photos I had edited using apps on my iPhone. I accompanied the slideshow with music by Sebastian and some spoken word. The sound isn't great, it sounded OK on my laptop but terrible on the clubs speakers, but it was never supposed to be easy to follow there was some purposeful obfuscation.
I hope you find it interesting.
Here's a hi-res version on Youtube too.
Tuesday, June 14
Photographic Assignments: Book Cover Project
NB: There are a lot of grouped images in the post and I recommend that you view the original post, here, for an easier read.
My photographic partner in crime, Monica, has been suggesting that I join a photography Meetup from the website Meetup.com for a while now but the idea of going on someone else's photowalk has never appealed to me as much as organising my own. However, when Monica told me about a Meetup group where people were mentored by a professional photographer on how to handle the photographic assignments you may get as a freelance photographer, then I was intrigued.
The idea of this Meetup, Photographic Assignments, is that each week we meet and reply to a brief set by a fictional employee. The first assignment was to create a book cover for a new Anne Rice book, a sensual vampire horror book, set over decades with a story that centres around London's financial district.
There was a fake Art Director (the Meetup's organiser, Pete) who requested that the image did not have any people in it and that it clearly contrast old London against new London as well as having the other themes of the story in it too.
Here are my efforts, there are several iterations of each attempt as well as the original images for each and a brief description of what I was trying to do.
The main character of the story lived on Kings Road in the City, and this building is 20 Kings Road. I've cut the building in half and then mirrored it so make it look more pleasing, I dropped in a more dramatic sky and darkened it, upped the contrast and made it blue. In one version I've placed the Gherkin in the background and made it the same colour as the sky so it didn't detract from the building in front, I lost this in a later version as I'm not confident that it adds anything. I then dropped a aeroplane in.
Sunday, June 5
Ai Wei Wei's Zodiac
The Year of The Bull, The Year of The Monkey, The Year of The Goat, The Year of The Cat.
