Stripes.

This is one of my latest pieces of work for my photography course. My inspiration for this image was Antione D'Agata. He is a motion photographer who focuses on themes such as sex, drugs and mental state. At first this image was in colour but I decided to make it black and white because I believe it added more connotations to it. I want to take lots of portrait photographs and motion for my coursework because I believe it is what I am best at. I really like the contrast within this image. From the black and white, to Louise and the background. Personally this image has a lot of meanings. It reflects her mental state so it is not balanced. I like how you can see three faces within this image too rather than one big blurred on going right the way around. I have lots more photographs to come :)

The past week or so...

Hey! I know I haven't posted much on here in the past week or so but I have been working really hard on taking my photographs for both my photography and media course in college. I finally developed the photographs from my film camera that I used the other day and some of the results I am really happy with, others not so much. I lent the camera once again while we was off college and I have also been using an SLR camera. On Monday night me and Ryan went for a walk around where I grew up and took quite a few photographs in places which hold a lot of memories for me. One place we went was a little pond just round the corner from mine, me and my dad would go there when I was little to feed the ducks and swans and to just really spend time together. There is this other pond too which is about a fifteen minute walk from my house and it is were me and my friend Alice would go whenever I would go round hers every now and then. I was rather happy with the photographs I took and I will post some on here soon once all the editing and stuff has been done. Then the next day I went to my cousins house and spent some time with her because we don't get to see each other that much anymore because of college and other things. I thought it would be a good opportunity to take some photographs for my media work because part of my course is to produce three pieces of 'text' and connect them with my research. So I am making a album cover, a perfume advertisement poster and a clothing line advertisement billboard poster. We took some photographs of our day together but then she also modeled for me which helped me a lot because I had to take some portraits. So soon I will post on here the edited versions of my photographs and I can then show people my work :)

Masks and Disguises.

Within my AS photography work I had a project called Masks and Disguises. I chose Antoine D'Agata as one of my photographers to research and focus on. For my artist response I decided to take D’agatas work as my inspiration to produce my motion photographs. Within these images I wanted to show how someones sexuality can be their mask and how it can change them mentally and physically. I made my model wear a lot of make up to show his homosexuality come through within the images but also made him wear a football shirt to show masculinity and his gender. Within my motion photographs I wanted to make the colours very dark but subtle at the same time to reflect what the persons thoughts are like. The colours show confusion, disbelief and unhappiness. I wanted to make my model look as though he is trying to fight off his sexuality and ‘defeat’ his inner demonds which he believes is his sexuality. Within the motion photographs I wanted to make sure that space was not used hugely. This is because I wanted it to once again represents the boys thoughts on his sexuality and make him look trapped and claustrophobic. In response to D’Agata’s images he wants to show people inner thoughts and demons through his photographs (sex, drugs, obsession’s) so with his inspiration I decided to take this matter into my own hands and manipulate it to fit into my project Masks and Disguises.