Plants & Girls

These are scans of my still life house plants. The aim is to have these coupled with fashion shots of adolecent looking girls. The intention is to show the similarities between the youthfulness of a plant and the purity of an adolescent girl. When combined I want my viewer to understand the delicacy between the two subjects. The models will be wearing garments designed by my peers in the fashion department.

5x4

This is a shot of my close friend loui short. I shot this on ilford fp4 using a mpp field camera. F/5.6 at 1/250. However I used the tilt mechanism at the back of the camera to achieve the mental depth of field. This was my first experience of deveolping 5x4 negs myself and it was very interesting and almost theroputic. Sitting in pitch black in the darkroom and physically handling my negs was very time consuming, however this made me more proactive of them.

Female forms

This is a from a life model shoot within my 'body' project, i was a bit nervous shooting with a naked women being a 17 year old boy, however after about 15 minutes i found my self looking past the fact she was naked and started to appreciate and compose some images of her natural form. These were shot on a mamiya rb 67 with ilford fp4 film. I dodged and burned certain areas to pay more attention to the definition and tone of the skin.

Josh's henri lartigue

For one of my transcription projects at college i chose to transcribe jacques henri lartigues bibi photo. I was given the film by a friend not knowing the asa, expiry date, process times, or even if it was black & white or colour. I developed them as if it was hp5 and these were the results. I think the grain adds to the 1920s look.

BEN KIDGER PORTRAIT

This is a portrait of Ben Kidger, one of the tutors at Canterbury college. It was for the college gallery magazine (PALETTE) as they were doing an interview on him. I shot this on my 35mm minolta hi matic 9 at a 1/60 at f1.7. The film of choice was ilford hp5 plus. When enlarging my filter was at 4.5 and i exposed it for about 12 seconds. When reviewing the print with the technician i didnt know whether to remove that light on the back drop by dodging, but we decided it gave the image some depth and left it. (The blacks and whites look a bit washed out on here)