Assessments

So my Final Assessments and presentation are tomorrow and I'm slowly getting more and more nervous.. so iv decided to look back on some old work that iv done a few years back. I think by doing this I'm looking at things related to what I'm doing right now so I'm kind of taking my mind off it.

I used to spend hours taking photographs of my brother skating but its eased off now because he lives in cork and rarely comes home. I dedicated a whole page to him in my portfolio for being so supportive and never minding me pointing a camera at him. what I love about photography and the coarse I'm doing is that I can now see in this image that is grainy, but because it is such a personal image I can get over that.

This is my friends cat Oscar. He rarely would sit around long enough with humans unless he was hungry but this day he was trying to get into the house. What I like about this image is that I'm so used to taking photographs of my own cat that's black and white, Oscar has a lovely coat on him in this image. you can clearly see his whiskers.

This is a photograph that I took at a friends 18 two years ago. its  one of the first photo shopped image I did yet the photo shopping is only the difference in contrast and brightness. I have a tendency to understand composition and depth of field some bit since iv ever held a camera. I think that's my favourite thing about this image is the composition. Its not slap bang in the middle of the screen but its perfecting situated for your eyes to see.

 

 

Lastly this is my sister. I absolutely love taking photographs off her because of her innocent face and of coarse the freckles. We decided on this day that we would try get pictures of bubbles and with out her realising I got them of her blowing the. something she refused to do in the first place. I think he not knowing I was doing this made the image more interesting because its just natural looking.

 

 

Kim Photograohy

 

Kasia Marcinkiewicz is the owner of Warsaw based KIM creative house. She works with free-lanced work in photography reportage, family and children photography.

Here I have photos that I found interesting as they have a meaning to them rather then just people in a photo. She doesn't do much set up photography and I find the innocence and naturalism very nice in the images.

She also does some staged photographs with models for fashion perposes

 

 

 

 

 

 

Working with Light

Today I found this blog by a photographer called George Saguna.
I instantly fell in love with his work. I was inspired by the grainy photography he did in Paris in black and white. It was really interesting to see how he ignored the 'ordinary' people of the city and focused a little bit more on the elderly, invalids and homeless instead.

These images where taken by the Notre Dame.

 

 

These two images are entitled "the one legged king who never lost his smile".

Finished the portrait

Finally. After a long day of photo shop iv finished my portraits :D It was so hard to get the lighting done and took a bit of time. I'm exhausted but delighted to be done. Iv seen this image so many times at this stage I don't know if its good or not. But I'm happy.

This is the original piece and the piece below is mine.