Digital Imaging

Been a little while since I last posted, sorry about that. Things are coming on nicely with just under a month of uni left and just over 2 until the baby is born!! busy times :-).

For the most part I have been working on uni stuff including the projects you will find on my unit 110 page HERE

By far the image I am most pleased with recently though is this one

We were tasked with replicating an iconic image and I am pleased with my results so please do check out the rest of the tasks and see what you think :-)

Putting Plans On Hold

Happy ne year everyone!!

Now that that's out of the way I have come to the conclusion that I am going to have to put my plans on hold for a while. My intention was to open my studio come the end of January, I had everything ready, however with the news that I am pregnant with number 2 my plans are now on hold for a while.
I will still be working on my photo book and setting up a website to sell prints etc of my other photography but I feel that it is not realistic to try and go ahead with opening a studio whilst expecting a baby and would only end badly if I tried to run a studio with a newborn.

Although I am disappointed that my plans will not be working to the timeline I had planned I know that it is only a timeline revisal and not a complete ending of the whole thing so it's ok, and besides in the next few months I'll have another tiny person to take up all my time and energy :-)

uni has become a bit of a struggle. I have been in a lot of pain and absolutely exhausted! My pregnancy with River was a dream compared to this one. At this time in my last pregnancy I would have still been working, this time around I can barely stay awake for a whole day!
Still by the time baby arrives I will have finished uni and have a little time to relax and enjoy the beautiful new life we have created. In the mean time keep an eye out for my upcoming page documenting everything we have done so far in our "digital imaging" project and in a couple of months I will also post up my critical studies essay for you all to see.

May this year bring you all that you wish for :-)

Critical studies essay

So we have a critical studies essay to write in uni and I have decided to write about how editorial photography does not always relate to the photograph that was actually taken. I started with the idea that I wanted to write about the portrayal of women in the media however whilst researching this I came across a photograph of a female US soldier and an article about how women are portrayed in the military. The article spoke of how women are usually shown in stories that relate to peace and nurturing whereas men are shown in the stronger roles. This led me to wondering about how a simple caption can change the entire story of a photograph and not always in a good way. Research and background for this essay is starting now and the actual writing starts after Christmas.
Watch this space :-)