I first entered this prestigious local photography exhibition two years ago and none of the three (maximum annual entries) pieces made it through. Last year I got one of the three into exhibition and this year, who knows, I am hoping for two, but it could easily be one or none. Anyway, below are the three I've chosen for this year, all printed in 18" x 12" colour and framed in black with a cotton white mount and a total frame size of 24" X 18".
Today's Specials
Shot on a miserable day in Tenby where the colours, vibrancy and sheer excess of choice made this something which stopped me in my tracks and which I had to make into a photograph. I am planning another trip to the seaside shortly and want to try and work with making this into a series of exhibition pieces, referencing traditional British Seaside conventions, but with a focus on the colours, the competitiveness of seaside business and the sheer gall of offering such abundance of food options.
Naturesphere #1
A photograph produced on a day when written work was overwhelming me and I was suffering chronic late stage cabin fever, which forced me out of the house with my camera, a 50mm lens and the desire to find something genuinely interesting to photograph. I don't know the name of this species of plant, but it stood several feet proud of the ground and its leaves, on a very narrow step. Light was poor and I could really have done with something to stand on as I was right on the edge of the minimum focal distance for the lens, making me stand on tiptoes and try to be very still. It was dull but I was able to bounce a little light back to the flower head (which was fully in the shade) with a pop up reflector (always worth carrying). Something I plan to return and re-photograph again this year with the benefit of a box to stand on. The difficulty will be catching the flower at the same moment in its development. I am told that these open out into a large pom-pom shape, but this pregnant moment before it burst out of its cocoon was what drew me to it in the first place.
Suspire
Not a posed photograph but rather a stolen moment during an otherwise planned shoot. This is the husband of a lady I was photographing at 34 weeks into her pregnancy. We wanted a shot of them together but the husband was actually suffering a very bad migraine, had already been physically sick and needed to get back to bed (the shoot was at the clients home where I used just an off-camera speedlight and a reflector for lighting). After a few frames, the flash was too much for him to bear with the migraine and he suddenly looked of and let out a sharp sigh of pain and distress, at which point, realising the opportunity, I hit him with another single flash and captured the above image (the guilt on my part subsided once I viewed and printed this photograph).
No comments:
Post a Comment