Creative Applications & Practice, series of portraits

Series of portraits on WW II re-enactors.

A group called The First Division, also knows as The Big Red One.

I need to have 8 final images for my uni project and I now have 9. Which image do you think I shouldn't use?

Photo Blaster

Slap Magazine has a cool little article called Photo Blaster, with photos and audio commentary from Joe Brook, who is one of my favorite skate photographers. check it out!

Jerry Spagnoli Daguerreotype portraits

I´m working on my essay at the moment and whilst I was doing research I found Jerry Spagnoli's website and I just had to post a couple of his studio daguerreotype portraits.

Photography highlight of the week, week 3

Just finished watching a documentary that I found on youtube. It´s called American Masters, Richard Avedon : Darkness And Light.

I found the documentary highly inspirational. It made me realize how much I enjoy photographing portraits and that should be doing it more. Not just portraits, but photography in general on a daily basis.

This documentary definitely gave my week an amazing kick start unlike anything else in months.

Well, maybe the fact that Richard Avedon is one my favorite photographers might have something to do with it, but I haven´t felt this inspired in a while...

Richard Avedon self portrait

Ronald Fischer, beekeeper, Davis, California, May 9, 1981

Here are the links to each part of the documentary on youtube. enjoy...

Darkness and Light 1/9

Darkness and Light 2/9

Darkness and Light 3/9

Darkness and Light 4/9

Darkness and Light 5/9

Darkness and Light 6/9

Darkness and Light 7/9

Darkness and Light 8/9

Darkness and Light 9/9

Eastbourne, East Sussex

Went to Beachy Head in East Sussex with Jameson yesterday and we took the Toyo 5x4 field camera with us as well. It was super windy, with around 100 km/h wind gusts at some point. Jameson took some photos close to the cliff and I have to say I was pretty scared, because of the gusts. Mature nature was really showing it´s strength.

Photography highlight of the week, week 1

This weeks photography highlight for me was using the Toyo 5x4 large format camera for my DISP unit. The theme for this unit is incongruous ( something out of place ). I hope I spelled it right... So basicly it´s a photoshop unit. Which is good, because I´m not that good with photoshop.

To get an idea of what I´m trying to explain, look at Philip Toledano´s website for some examples.

My idea for this unit was to photograph a landscape of the beach, where a statue of the egyptian goddess Isis has washed into shore and people taking photographs of it. Fairly simple idea, but then again I like simple images.

I really enjoyed using the camera on location at the beach, it slowed down the actual process of taking photographs and made me look at the landscape I was working with and think about what I was doing, instead of just snapping away with my digital camera.

I´ll post some photos as I start working on this project next week.

Another highlight this week for me was using my Mamiya 7 again. I took a couple of photos of my housemates as they were going out. I haven´t used Kodak Portra 800nc before and I have to say that I was very pleased with the results. More photos on my flickr site.