Ian Shipley

Ian Shipley is an Entrepreneur who started out as a photographer. his talk was very interesting as he told us about how he started and how he became to be so successful. he told us about when him and his friend came up with the idea the the Violent veg greetings cards and calenders. As well as the violent veg Ian does: PR & event photography, lifestyle and interior, editorial photography, architectural photography, automobile photography, midlands and aerial photography, performers head shots and band publicity, body painting and professional retouching.

it was very interesting listening to Ian and about all he had done and he was very inspiring and motivated us to do our best so one day we could all be as successful as him.

Suki Chan

I was in Australia for this lecture but I did my own research on suki chan using wikipedia and her website. while I was researching Suki I found some work called 'tomorrow is our permanent address' I really like this series of photos because of the way the glasses in the foreground create a silhouette of a cityscape on the bottom of the photograph projected on the wall.

there is so much going on in these photos and so much too look at it's all most as if three photos in one, there's the glasses then the shadows of the glasses then there's the photo projected on the wall.

The idea behind this is so clever and goes to show you really can make art out of anything it all depends on the way its laid out or displayed.

I am sad I missed this lecture as I imagine it would have to so interesting to hear what suki had to say about these Images and why she choose to take them and where she got the idea from in the 1st place.

Ali Lomas

Ali Lomas is a local fashion/portrait photographer however some of the work she calls portrait i would call documentary, her lecture was interesting but I personally get bored of fashion photography, her work is good but I just feel that a lot of fashion photography is similar which can be said about all photography I guess but it's just a personal thing I will have to get over if I want to become a serious photographer. 

However I was very interested in her ''documentary'' work and found this very interesting and inspiring, infact I did my Book project using documentary photography and researched Ali Lomas for it. her work is very simple yet effective, most of them are taken to a pale or white background and then the model will wear a item of clothing the same colour as something in the background (in this one white tiles on the wall and the model is wearing a white vest) which is good as it puts the main focus on the 'story' in the image.    

 

Jill Cole

Jill Cole's lecture was interesting but it wasn't my favourite, she showed us a lot of work from a project she is doing called ''Birds'', it was clear she was passionate about her work and very proud of the out come.

The project took over 18 months and was shot on British military land the photos show birds that have been captured for conservation. the birds are caught in a net tied between two metal poles and assured us none of the birds are hurt.
When Cole takes a photograph she uses a very shallow depth of field and focuses on the bird and nothing else so the background and even some of the netting is out of focus.

Her images are very interesting but they are not 'my cup of tea', i think this is because I am not really big on wildlife photography, however if i ever need to produce some wildlife images I will be sure to research Jill Cole.

Rutt Blees Luxemburg

Luxemburg was the guest lecturer I was most looking forward to because I had seen some of her work before she on The Streets 1st album cover. Luxemburg was really interesting and had a lot to say about her work and the development of her ideas into images, it was interesting to find out her work had also been used by Bloc Party as well as The Streets. she showed us A lot of her work and told us about each photograph individually and she really inspired my and made me what to try harder to become a photographer so maybe one day my work will be on the cover of my favourite artists album.


she showed us her work on a slide project which was different but in my eyes better as it showed a 'crisper' image, by this I mean the photos were clearer and i could see more detail than I would do on a powerpoint.

the images she showed us were taken at night so they all had a luminous effect, this made the images quite eary and scary as there in signs there is living people around but no actually signs of people or animals.

She did a series of photographs which she took from the top of buildings in a part of london no on really takes photos in. she told us that these images give the sence of adrenaline you get while standing at the edge of a high place like a building or a mountain.   




the image to the right is her most successful image but it isn't my favourite, this image does give off the effect she was after and it also has an abstract side to it like the rest but my favourite is the one she used for the streets album cover (image at the top of the page), not only was it used on the streets album but it's interesting to look, I enjoy the way that some of the lights in the flat are on and the way there are two white strips in the middle of the flat and the rest are a darker greenish brown colour.

I will consider looking at Luxemburgs work in the future and I was inspired to do well as a photographer by her talk.

Workshop

We were asked to go to the construction department in college and take photos of the students work.

One Shot

In this assignment i was asked to take a photo of a important or found item. other criteria for this task were, there had to be a person or part of a person in it and it had to  cropped to 8 x 8 inches.

This is my final image. I am quite happy with this image although the white balance isn't quite right, if you look at my hand its really pale however I have quite tanned hands and my palm near my thump on this photo is almost white.