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I am ill. In my cough syrup high I started mindlessly going through my hard-drive into long lost folders and photo albums that I have acquired over the years. From one high to another I came across some photographs taken with my 80-300 lens, I shot these from long distance and took close ups of families and friends spinning and gliding through the air. When looking up close each person is experiencing different emotion from hysteria to apathy and I think/hope I captured some of that. All I did today was crop, adjust both colour and light balance. No Airbrushing required.
I liked them as individual photographs but I also played with the idea of putting them in a series.
Today is a day of photo editing in my duvet whilst eating meals of Halls and Lemsip and listening to the rain plunder down outside. There is no good light today for photographers to bask in. Only the dimness of editing suites and darkrooms. Anyway, here’s a poll.
My new Linkedin profile before I start making up business cards and coding for a new website.
*Watch this gap for new projects coming soon*
I love Photoshop. It enables me to do things like this when I’m bored.
I have mixed feelings about weddings, although there is a lot opportunity to make a living as a wedding photographer, it’s a rare thing to actually see original and inspiring photographs. I think mainly because you are paid to capture something personal and I sometimes believe that those are two mutually exclusive things due to the nature of paying for a service; like a prostitute selling love it loses it’s integrity. I believe the same for making “art for monies sake”.
The only problem with poverty, is that you are in fact poor. I feel like I have to eat my own words because photography in itself is expensive, especially if you have to sell your camera for rent. So now I’m living with my mum in the middle of nowhere, ironically in one of the most beautiful places in the whole of England, without a camera.
“How can you be a photographer without a camera?” I hear you cry, well that’s the point, you can’t.
So my work of late has basically involved revisiting old work with fresh eyes and seeing if I can come up with something, anything that resembles the standard of work that I want.
These are a couple of shots from a Christmas lights display held in Richmond, Va in 2009. When out and about with my camera, I like to try and the capture atmosphere at that precise moment and most of my work has an aspect of portraiture even if they are in the background.
When I lived in Richmond, there was a definite divides in the social hierarchy and you could view it more so in these types of events. The wealthy middle class all live outside the city and are only really seen in the city when such events occur, whilst the working class and minorities would be behind the stalls and trying to sell “memorabilia” on cardboard carpets as police tried to shoo them away. Although I loved events like these it makes me very aware that social state of the city isn’t what it should be, so that photo is just a snippet.
The other two pictures are pretty lights, they were pretty…… so there.
CREATIVITY AND A LITTLE MOANING.
The longest time I have been unemployed for is 5 days in between arriving back in the UK from America and the time I got a job as a waitress in my home town. Before that I was 14. So 3 months into being unemployed, ironically since I graduated from a degree in Applied Biology, has been a long and stressful stretch for me.
I feel a little bit betrayed by this fact, due to the encouragement from the government proclaiming more qualifications will lead to better jobs. Bullshit. What it actually results in is a generation of overqualified waiters, porters, care assistants and job-seekers. Along with the ever growing sinking feeling that the 25k in debt was all for nothing and the thought that you were better off when you were 14.
But there is a light at the end of the tunnel, the free time has let me be able to spend more time getting creative and more time dedicated to getting it right. So IMMORTALITY PHOTOGRAPHY has come on a little way and after a few trials for logos I have come up with this:
I like it.
So along with finally creating a logo after years of photography I also have come to another realisation. I hate pastels. Most of my work is vibrant and high contrast and trying to fit in with the spec of “wildlife and pastels” is a bit of a struggle. Any inspiration I have come across is mostly along the lines of butterflies, rainbows and sweet peas. 
National Geographic wouldn’t put up with this crap. I’m going to have to think a little outside the box on this one. I feel a mood board coming on.
IMMORTALITY PHOTOGRAPHY started a few years ago whilst trying to occupy my free time at university and break from the restrictions institutions thrust on what should be creative and artistic subjects. Eg. My photography A levels. Like me, my sister struggles with being put in a box creatively and so we have decided to have a bit of friendly competition. One, because we are really bored and really unemployed, two, because friendly competition leads to pushing oneself to limits that would not be there otherwise and three, because irritating each other is what we do best.
Currently she is in the other room covering her laptop with her elbow and demanding me not to “spy” on her and that posting our first blog is a “race”, I did not agree to these conditions. I must point out that we are actually both adults.However, the conditions we did agree to is to firstly decide what topics we need. I randomly assigned a colour group and a photographic genre out of a hat (actually its a Kodak instamatic camera box) and assigned 3 individual projects and four joint. These are as follows:
Me:
- Beauty shot in feminine tones
- Wildlife using Pastels (I’m really not liking this one)
- Nighttime photography with Cool tones
Bratknicks:
- Still life using masculine tones/textures
- Fashion shoot using primary colours
- Documentary in monochrome (jealous of this one)
Joint Challenge:
- Macro photography using warm/hot tones
- Landscape using metallic colours e.g. Gold and Silver
- Fine art photography in Neon
- Urban scape in Neutral shades
Her blog is here, as she has posted first: http://katiemurphyphotography.wordpress.com/…….bugger. Well watch this space.
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