MSOC Easter Concert ~ Part 3

 ...As soon as the lights went down and the choir came on the photos I took from then on were completely transformed by the lighting and how I worked with the lights and angles my camera towards  them with the singers harmonising in between. Quite a few of my light angling pictures came out as silhouettes or pitch black ( i.e. too much light!) but when I got it just right there were some really good ones rich in colour. Below are a few of my favourites that helps sum the concert and my final post covering the MSOC Easter concert

 - Enjoy!

- The Concert -

 In this photo I was just quick enough to catch a little 'audience participation'!

Being in a choir looks pretty fun :)

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MSOC Easter Concert ~ Part 1

Over Easter I got my chance to be more involved with photography professionally at Manchester Sing Out Choir's annual Easter concert :D

I took well over 300 photo's that night and it's taken me some time to cut it down to a bloggable number since I've been back at uni - but here it is! There were quite a few things that were different from last years concert - starting with 'The Market'...

The Market had been set up to showcase different talents and businesses from the surrounding area from fashion students and jewellers to artists and florists. It was the first thing the audience saw when they got to the concert and all these bright colours, smells and bubbly sellers were completely different to the miserable weather outside.

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Location and Character Shoot

Not too far from my halls there is a peculiar stone archway tucked down one of the side streets. I say peculiar because it just seems to have been plucked from a medieval castle and placed in the midst of a busy university campus! But it's still very nice all the same, and I think it makes a nice contrast to all the modern lecture buildings nearby.

Our second part of the project was to return to our chosen location and add character's to our scene's.

After the two shoots had been taken we had to create an A4 glossy final print with a selection of 3-4 final images,, then give a presentation on the project to the class. The final layouts took me aaaaaaaages to do but I narrowed it down to the following 3 which I'll have to narrow down and edit again once I get formative feedback on this project. As form my presentation my photography tutor said that I had a real knack for creative a narrative between my photo's, which is a comment I couldn't be happier with! Telling stories with images alone is a concept I love to challenge myself with.

 

Gonna head off to bed now, I'll need to be up early for my morning lectures and the exhibition event tomorroooooooooooooooow! (excited much!!)

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X rays and photography

My entry to the "Where Art Meets Science" competition (mentioned in my earlier post) is constantly changing now I've started to produce some mono prints and stencils for it. My initial idea is still the same but I feel like I'm still searching for the best way to present it...

During some more research (my new favourite thing ever - seriously) I came across the work of the Spanish photographer, Max de Esteban. In his photo series "Proposition One" many retro objects like analog cameras, record playes, and other retro gadgets are depicted in ghostly X-rays-style images. 

What interested me most was the fact that his images weren't created with an X-ray, but by disassembling the objects, painting them white, and taking many photographs as he reassembled them piece by piece. The final image is a photograph made up of many layers of the object.  

This series of photographs will be a great source of inspiration for the screen prints I plan on doing. I better get Photoshop-ing! The deadline's less than two weeks away now!!!

I'll keep you posted

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That Pepper Spraying Cop!

Remember those pictures I posted in "Here's saying goodbye to 2011 ~ photos"? Well I returned to the guardian site and followed up one of the pictures I'd missed out of a US police man, casually pepper spraying protesting students! 
 

This image caused a lot of outrage because this cruel act was carried off with such casual body language and facial expression. But this pepper spraying cop got Photoshop justice! 

I found some of the pictures HILARIOUS! HAHAHAHA, Here are just a few of my favourites :')

This is a new phenomenon, where the Internet creates a voice to  mock and mimic extreme actions. In jokes (memes) are made visual, evolve and are re-interpreted. Animated, Photoshop-ed, stop-motion, you name it - they've done it!

This well made my day :') Check out his tumblr ;)

http://peppersprayingcop.tumblr.com/

- Enjoy!

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The 'Red' House

On the thursday I got chance to return to 'The House' I discovered a few weeks ago... but this time I brought my friend steph along as a model to help add that extra something to my second shoot.

I also thought it would be a good idea to ask permission from the neighbouring house this time round - since I'd be filming as well as taking photos. Turns out that the neighbouring house DO own 'The House', which means a return trip is definately on the cards in order to answer a fair few questions - now with out further ado here are a selection of my best photographs - Enjoy!

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