Black and White Androgyny

Been a long time, but I'm still doing university work from when I was in hospital from being an extremely poorly lady... anyway! To cut things short and just get some snip-its up, the concept behind the shoot was black and white androgyny, a lot more behind it, but thats the basics. It will all be explained at a later date with the final outcomes. But, for the moment, here are just a few previews images, still to be altered an edited. Here is the makeshift studio, using what little space was available with my dads flood lights... finalised images will follow soon.

This images below is my favourite so far...

Images: Authors Own

Madonna

In my last post I mentioned a planned photo-shoot, so here is the story. My friend contacted me because he wanted to enter a Smirnoff competition to go and see Madonna in Paris as a result of her newly released album MDNA. The aim of the competition was to create a Madonna inspired image, and my friend is Madonna mad! So he planned to recreate her 'I am Breathless' album cover. He organised the entire shoot... Rented the car, got the outfits and chose the models (himself as Dick Tracy and a friend), all I had to do was the lighting,take the photographs and edit the chosen image. The graphics were then put on by Jerri (the girl in the image) to recreate the album cover:

The image we were re-creating:

Our re-created Image, we chose our final image for the album cover re-creation as it best reflected the original work.:

Another photograph from the shoot which I really liked:

Top Image: Madonna 'I'm Breathless' Album Cover.

Middle Image: Authors Own Collaboration.

Bottom Image: Authors Own

More from Film Noir...

While looking through my previous images from the Film Noir series only a selection were chosen because their were so many great ones... My model was absolutely amazing! Anyway I just wanted to post these as I really loved them too... These are not the ones I used for my final pin-up but there was so many good images, and there are even more!

Images: Authors Own

Instant Newton

I am beginning to venture my interests further into instant photography as a result of my infatuation with film photography. I have been meaning to buy a Polaroid for some time now, and after writing this post and looking at these images I think I might just order do so straight away. Photographers often use the form of instant photography to test their shoots. The one off prints that develop in a matter of seconds from the click of the shutter allow photographers to preview a shoot before capturing final images. 

Helmut Newton has been for some time and I'm sure will remain one of my most adored practitioning photographers. Newtons book 'Polaroids' is a collection of his Polaroid test shots and after looking at these wonderful photographs, as well as purchasing my own Polaroid camera; I think I'll also buy the book.

Images: Helmut Newton

Agnes-Cecile

These are some amazing pieces from artist, Agnes-Cecile. In these examples she utilises watercolour in a unique and mythical way combined with her own methods to create this wonderful works. Why not check out more of her work on tumblr and deviantART.

This video shows the artist in action, through a speed version of herself painting musicians 'The Green Children'. Music is the bands song 'Skies on Fire'. It is fascinating just to watch her technique and approach.

Images: Agnes-Cecile

Video: Agnes-Cecile on Youtube

Final Selection... Intimate Life

This is how I presented my Intimate Life series today for my photography pin up for marking, response and feedback. I got lots of positive feedback for this series from students in my class and my lecturer, although she didn't let on too much so I will just have to wait for my grade when it's finally handed in. 

I'm personally extremely happy with how these turned out. The images have all been taken, developed and processed by myself. To find out more about the series read here. But to put it simply, it is documenting my grandparents day, mundane I know but that's what intimate life is all about, photographing concepts you would normally ignore. You can click on the image to view it larger, or look at previous posts to see my development.

Images: Authors Own