tinted blue

Faith in abilities

2012-01-22T11:16:00.001-08:00

Possibly images of people having a hard time doing a task ..
This goes deeper if the person is passionate about the task, who really wants or needs it to be done but still failing - anger, frustration etc..

A couple of ideas

2012-01-13T16:22:00.000-08:00

One idea I just thought of - hardware appendages, I took jake's external disk drive put it on my crotch then ejected it - imagining a white disk being ejected with something like 'sperm' or 'dna' written on it. Also brings me back to when I was just imagining having a diskdrive input on my body somewhere..

The other idea was an older one shooting through a thin layer of meat - getting a diffused image with a veiny meating texture

The final eight

2011-01-06T09:56:00.000-08:00

The provisional final eight images for the project in its current state:-

Object intimate

2010-12-31T09:33:00.000-08:00

At the end of this shoot I decided to shoot from a different angle; moving away from an object in the middle of black space, this is more a intimate view of the shape abstracted from the curves of a body. Not so analytical and still life, but still just as abstract.

Face

2010-12-23T14:03:00.000-08:00

Even less abstract; more a tracing of contours to define a shape. There's no hiding a face in it's entirety, we're too programmed in it's recognition.

Heart

2010-12-23T14:00:00.000-08:00

Not entirely abstract; it's not hard to see what this actually is, but this has some duality with a heart. The distorted grid does little to changed the perceived shape, I've chosen to keep some of the grey shading which I don't know if helps the deformation but keeps the image representing an object rather than an abstract pattern.

Don't control

2010-12-19T04:51:00.000-08:00

Once again, someone else's shoot.. it's raining and a spare model is helping out, keeping the already damp girl dry. I'm not in control of anyone here, and I like that.. just capturing what is there, doing something not for my camera.

I can debate with myself if this behaviour is better or worse for my images; I'm confident I can create and control a scene to photograph, but still I mostly choose not too.. even if it leads to some awkwardness. If I start controlling everything I feel I lose an undefinable quality that only authentic images have.

What's this girl with ripped fishnets doing in the underpass anyway?

2010-12-18T10:17:00.000-08:00

After a gig I was shooting, I found a quality in the green glow of the underpass light. I've always loved the mix of light of the city at night; vivid greens and oranges etc.. but never before having a person in frame, the low light doesn't make it easy.. poppy here had to stand perfectly still, but the result has some of the feeling of the place.

What's this girl with ripped fishnets doing in the underpass? .. Waiting for me.

I'll call him Rudolf

2010-12-18T09:42:00.000-08:00

Nothing like a bit of real life gore, so was pleased to come across this fresh kill a few years back. Not sure what tore it's throat out but it hadn't yet been consumed..

Preparation

2010-12-17T13:59:00.000-08:00

The process of preparation intrigues me more than the final result, I find I have a lot of these images when models are getting ready for a shoot, I snap away partly to submerge myself into the camera; changing my thought patterns into the deeper, calmer state I like to shoot in.

The images are always natural, and often intimate.. like they are preparing themselves for the shoot also. This wasn't even my model, I was just assisting!

Self Portrait

2010-12-16T11:59:00.000-08:00

Chosen for a new facebook portrait for my artist's page.. something recent where I've put my own face in the path of my projected image.

I always edit myself to be gritty; all skin flaws shown, I never even think about using the clone brush.. This says something about me; open and accepting of my own flaws.. but more if you choose to look deeper.

2010-12-16T11:36:00.000-08:00

I'm going to try to put up some old photo's that've never seen the light, as well as current work..

This is the scene as I found it; One melted, one flying.

Some of my favourite images are these found scenes, I often wish I had my camera on me; when you take a lot of pictures you start to see the world in a different context.. Like when you drive you see the world as roads and signals (and adverts!), when you play a computer game you see a world constructed for you.. and when you imagine a camera in your hand you cut your world into frames, as perceptively flawed than your eyes (Perception is for another time).

Projection Progress

2010-12-16T10:20:00.001-08:00

One reveals the shape; abstracting the human body to a porcelain-like object. The other distorts the shape turning it into something that doesn't settle so easily on the eye.

Fair trade show

2010-03-24T07:05:00.000-07:00

Stalking the catwalk..

Sonia's dress

2010-03-23T17:27:00.000-07:00

Mid-shoot, Frances sits waiting for her necklace to be fixed..

The Whores

2010-03-23T17:20:00.000-07:00

Bright lights flashed in the background silhouetting the singer of The Whores where she stood a quarter of a second ago..

Blurby thing

2010-03-15T13:40:00.001-07:00

Left by Tom Farrant

Pink & Black

2010-02-16T03:07:00.000-08:00

I'm attracted to bold images.. high contrast, bright colours.. artistically speaking I'm not sure how this fits in but I enjoy it.. especially when I have models like Millie to work with!

Day and Night

2010-02-01T16:16:00.001-08:00

I passed the same porta-cabins before and after sunset, the colours are enhanced but not altered.

M4 Greys

2010-01-31T09:07:00.001-08:00

Full album :- http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=197391&id=549175268&l=9926afecdf

On the M4 to Port Talbot for an industrial photoshoot, I started taking pics of passing cars.. I felt like I was invading their privacy but the resulting images were.. well, see for yourself and tell me what you think!

From Totterdown

2010-01-28T10:28:00.000-08:00

Perched among the winter trees, looking down from Totterdown,

the toy trains of temple meads pass under the model bridge.

My first experiment with tilt/shift has left me smitten with the borrowed 5x4, as so often happens, one good shot will influence all that come after

Alot to catch up on

2010-01-22T16:00:00.000-08:00

Everything was put on the back-burner while I was finishing the last project, now I have *many* sets of photo's to edit, here's a one from the latest installment of Millie.

There are many hours in a day, just not enough for me to play..

First impressions

2010-01-21T07:05:00.000-08:00

They're not like a box of old photo's to be found years later, unprinted digital photos will fade into obscurity, eventually lost to a failed hard drive or lost memory stick..

Here's a home for them, and a breeding ground for more.

Here are my thoughts and my eyes x