With the whole country being in lockdown and only travelling for essential reasons due to the Coronavirus / COVID-19 outbreak, I knew my portfolio would be affected in the fact I wouldn’t be able to complete my initial theme and therefore, when I returned home back to Hull, I decided to photograph within and outsideContinue reading “Formal Elements”
Category Archives: Media Project
Textures
Sorry for the in-activeness, I’ve been heavily overworked due to working on the front-line but I’ve got some time in my schedule to keep you all up to date with my portfolio plans starting with this entry. As COVID-19 has taken the world into a crazy pandemic resulting in only being allowed out for specificContinue reading “Textures”
Portrait Shoot 2
On Thursday 19th March, before the government announced a lockdown, my friend Courtney, who’s featured in my previous portraiture shoot, came up to Sheffield for the weekend and we felt it would be the perfect opportunity to compose another shoot, and therefore decided Peace and Winter Gardens would be the best location for the fact,Continue reading “Portrait Shoot 2”
Peace & Winter Gardens
Originally, the theme for my media project was wildlife, in which trips to both The Deep and Yorkshire Wildlife Park where in mind, however, after various tutorials with my lecturer, we came to an agreement that I should combine multiple themes into one final project, and therefore today, I headed out to produce images withinContinue reading “Peace & Winter Gardens”
Library
With the media project research and planning workshop deadline approaching, our lecturer felt like a trip to the library would be beneficial as a way of conducting artist research, who may help influence our media project and portfolio. As my initial idea was to focus my work on wildlife, I started looking up wildlife specialisedContinue reading “Library”
Darkroom
The ‘darkroom’ technique derives from the daguerreotype process invented by Louis Daguerre, and is a method in which entails the use of chemicals as a way of developing captured images from paper negatives. As paper negatives are severely sensitive to light meaning the exposure would be affected before the photo is even produced, when inContinue reading “Darkroom”
Photographer: Nick Brandt
Born in London, Nick Brandt has become one of the most successful and renowned contemporary photographers , who’s career and passion for photography came to the surface in 1995 when, he visited Africa for the first time to direct and film the Michael Jackson, ‘Earth Song’ music video. It was this iconic video in whichContinue reading “Photographer: Nick Brandt”
The Deep (Revisited)
As you may know by now, the theme for my portfolio and media project is wildlife and recently visited The Deep, an aquarium within the city centre of Hull that provides views of the Humber Estuary and is home to over 5000 animals including seahorses, sea turtles, penguins and jellyfish. I felt like capturing aContinue reading “The Deep (Revisited)”
Feren’s Art Gallery
As part of my media project, I want to ensure a variety of primary and secondary sources have been used as both part of and to develop my research into the types of genres and photographers I may decide to show influence from in my final outcome demonstrated in my digital portfolio, hence why IContinue reading “Feren’s Art Gallery”
The Deep
For my media project I’m hoping to focus on wildlife and in particular zoos and wildlife parks throughout Yorkshire, and therefore in order to decide whether to remain with this initial idea, on February 14th, I returned to my hometown of Hull and visited one of our most famous tourist attractions…The Deep as a wayContinue reading “The Deep”
