FMP DIARY - 22.6.17

Where has the time gone? It only feels like a couple of weeks ago that I started this project and now I'm in the process of wrapping it up. I'm almost completely finished with everything here at college and the idea of leaving is a little bit daunting to say the least. So what have I been up to in my final weeks at college...

Well we hosted our exhibition for starters! The opening night was just lovely and so many people turned up to see our hard work. The exhibition is running until the 1st of july so there is still lots of time to get up to Touchwood in Solihull to see it!

I've already worked the exhibition for two days, keeping my eye on the work and answering anyones questions about it. We actually had two local artists come in to ask several of us if we want to show our work in their exhibition next month so I will probably be involved in that in the coming weeks.

I also had chance to do two more street style shoots using different equipment. My last film shoot went quite horribly wrong so I shot again, this time on a Holga camera. As well as that I also did a shoot with my Instax mini camera which I am beyond happy with. I've now completed all of the shoots for my FMP and only this morning I finished developing my last ever roll of film at college!

I'm not sure if I will get chance to update on here again but I hope you've all enjoyed watching my progress while I complete my HND in Photography!

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FINAL PORTFOLIO

As we are coming close to the end of the year I'm starting to tie up loose ends and publish all of my final works. Over the last couple of weeks I have been working on putting togehter my final portfolio for printing and now it is finally finished. I had the whole thing printed last friday and honestly I'm really quite happy with it. My final portfolio images can be found below.

As always and feedback or constructive critiscim is welcome. Altough I will not be reprintig my portfolio, I will take any feedback into account when I capture future photographs.

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FMP DIARY - 7.6.17

Its been a little while since I updated the blog so I thought I better write down what I've been up to for the last few weeks. A lot of my time has been taken up with preparing for the exhibition which opens this Friday but heres what I've been doing in between...

So I finished editing my final images for the exhibition. There are 22 images in total which I had planned to make into a small photo book however that didn't work out. I spent hours scouring the internet for reliable places to print my book but nowhere could produce an A5 portrait size book for a reasonable price. As I have planned to sell a few books I really needed to be able to print them quite cheap but it turns out thats not really achievable unless you order the books in bulk. I didn't end up ordering any photo books however it is something I will look into in the future. 

Out of the initial 22 images I edited for the exhibition 6 are going up on the wall. Between my tutor and I we chose the images we felt would work best together and show diversity. Below is one of the images I will be showing in the exhibition.

After choosing my final 6 I had to print them, mount them to foam board, and then trim that down to size. It was a bit of a nightmare if I'm honest but I did it in the end and I don't think they look too horrendous. Once my work was finished I had to put it up in the exhibition space. I was given a rather small area to hang my work which I wasn't particularly happy with but I didn't have much choice. Once I had accepted my fate I arranged my images on the floor until I was happy with them and hung them up using velcro double sided tape.

As well as worrying like mad about the exhibition I got around to doing another shoot. Well I tried to do another shoot at least. I had planned to travel in Birmingham City Centre to do a shoot on my 120 Lubitel camera. After doing research on photographers such as Garry Winogrand and William Klein, I was inspired to shoot a roll of black and white film. I had arrived in town, loaded my film, and was prepared to shoot. It was not until I pushed the shutter release that I realised it was not working. Film cameras are really not my speciality and I could not for the life of me figure out what how to fix my camera that day so I have postponed that shoot until I can get it working again. 

Currently I am in the process of planning another shoot which I hope will take place in town next week. As I've been using the same camera for most of the shoots I wanted to try something new with my lasts few shoots. I'm thinking of using my Instax mini camera for this shoot and getting the women I photograph to interact with their image by drawing on it. I'm still putting ideas together right now and I've been pinning on a new Pinterest board which you can see below.

Until next week

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