I heart Tim Walker

Where the hell do i even start with someone like him-I'm just gunna put this one out there (he's one of the best photographers eva")
well to me he is.
there is not one photo of his work that i have found that i haven't wanted to cry about because it looks so beautiful.
some weird people get excited over baby's and puppy's-nono its all about the Tim Walker work.
Hes a London based photographer who established himself at the cutting edge of fashion photography. His images capture a sublime moment in time, evoking a sense of drama and beauty. Stunning sets and lavish locations against the everyday with the absurd and the fabulous, to create captivating, original photographs. His images are full of textured and intriguing detail.

Lighting and compostion

Muck about and experiment with lighting. it amazes me how many different effects you can get with just one light.You will never get a good eye for compostion either if you sit there and think about it-you have to actually do it.
god i sound like a teacher but its true and it can always be a laugh.
I'm bloody useless at it half the time but i no its worth the aggro...

What a god dam legend

Most fashion photography is done by gay people finding women sexy,” Teller says, “which is sort of not sexy at all, at least to a heterosexual man. She’s so retouched, so airbrushed, without any human response at all, and, well, you don’t really want to fuck a doll.

I just turn the page,” Teller says of those very glossy fashion shots. “It doesn’t really interest me very much. My work has nothing to do with that. I just really like women, and I like men, and I like children, and I like eating, and I like doing everything. It’s something real. I’m for the individual human being, not some plastic figure some gay guy thought out. That’s valid for something, but it’s not my cup of tea.”

There is grit to a Juergen Teller photograph, even when it’s one of his lucrative high-fashion ads. A kind of raw, what-you-see-is-what-you-get sensibility that shows the sometimes very ugly side of a supposedly beautiful business. The photographs are undeniably sexy, but sexy in the sense that you can practically smell them.

Juergen touches on the futility of it all—of trying to look beautiful, the futility of trying to keep up your sagging breasts or of fitting into a certain dress. So much fashion photography builds this false sense and maintains the myth. Juergen’s pictures cut through all that, but they’re not depressing. What’s really depressing is not Juergen’s pictures, but the mindless objectification of women as clothes hangers who pose and wear clothes, but there’s nothing to the picture apart from that it’s a sales tool.”

At the moment i am doing a add campaign based on Vivienne Westwoods add campaign with Pamela Anderson in them. Juergen teller is the photographer. he never Eva retouches his photos and Rather than saturating the colors and bleeding his image off the edge of a page, as is typical for a fashion shoot, Teller uses a raw flash that blasts his subjects and keeps his colors soft and somewhat muted. And the pictures are always surrounded by loads of white space.
this is something i wish to achieve.
that i get to the point that i understand how a camera and lighting set up works-that i will never have to retouch a photo.

Pinhole...

Pinhole cameras......

A pinhole camera is a very simple camera with no lens and a single very small aperture. Simply explained, it is a light-proof box with a small hole in one side. Light from a scene passes through this single point and projects an inverted image on the opposite side of the box.
pinhole cameras you gotta love them. in fact I'm that much of a geek i do. these are some photos i took with my pinhole camera that i made (sounds like blue peter)
i then developed them in the dark room and played around with different filters to get a dreamy blue effect.

Vivienne Westwood add campaign

Of all the spring 2009 campaigns, i was perhaps most excited to see Vivienne Westwood's. Not because it stars Pamela Anderson and was shot at her Malibu trailer, but because Vivienne and her husband Andreas Kronthaler also star in the ads.
Pamela Anderson, Vivienne Westwood (and Dame Viv’s husband Andreas Kronthaler) look like their having fun making this campaign. The pictures could very well be holidays photos, making the layout of this add campaign personal to the reader like a family photo album.
The unlikely pair met at Vivienne's Red Label show at London Fashion Week back in September. They got on immediately and the designer asked Pammie to be the face of her SS09 campaign.
Vivienne Westwood instantly took a liking to Pamela Anderson's "quirkiness" after meeting the former Baywatch babe at a party. The Dame liked her so much, she inked a six-figure deal with Anderson to be the face of her 2009 Spring campaign.
"I can't speak about it yet. But anything I would say would be completely positive" said Westwood.
Pamela does not have the typical look of a fashionable with her messy blonde locks, pencil thin eyebrows and heavily made up face, not to mention her larger than average boobs but putting her with such an eccentric designer seems to work a treat.
The Baywatch star flaunts her boobs and legs in a series of shots and pulls off a coy but sexy look as she poses in a knee length skirt and ankle socks while she sucks her thumb seductively.
i have to hand it to her, she's certainly set herself apart by using Pammie instead of the usual 'fashiony' celebs such as Victoria Beckham and Keira Knightly that other designers would opt for but the result is a fun, fresh campaign that is sure to be remembered.

Acknowledge your own style.

When i talk to people about photography, most of them ask "how do you get taught how to take a photo".
"taught how to take a photo?" what a load of rubbish...
I believe that the only thing you can get taught is the technical side, the maths and constant research and the thirst for more knowledge of the subject its self.
"No one" can teach you how to take a photo, its already there.
This is what makes every photo so beautifully different.
If i gave a camera to 5 people and told them to take a photo of the same thing. All 5 peopels photos would be completely different.
The only thing you have to do, is acknowledge your own style.

For Lent.......

Hey I'm Abbie.
After attending one of my best mates birthdays the other day, and having a chin wag about lent (god I'm exciting)-it suddenly got decided by all of my mates that instead of giving up something, i should start something. so in fact i am starting a blog. cheers mates!
I am currently studding a degree in BA (Hons) Contemporary Photographic Practise at the UCA university of Rochester.
This course is an opportunity to establish an individual critical and creative practise in photography. here i develop technical and professional skills in analogue and digital image-making, film based technologies, digital video and web authoring. on this course i have access to a Digital Imaging Centre, which offers an extensive range of digital authoring and publishing options. Our lecturers are practising photographers and the university also offers a stimulating programme of lectures by visiting artists, writers, curators and commissioners.
I am currently in my first year and feel very privileged to be studying at the UCA as it is ranked at being the second best place in the country to study photography.
our projects so far have been based on Reflections On Realism, Representation & The Construction Of Identity, Contextualisation, Reality & Representation, Images Of Cultural Convention, Visual Strategy & Dialogues Of Dissent, Time Space & New Worlds and finally The Creation Of Metaphoric Space.
any way....for future reference to anyone who reads this, you will probably find my comical spelling mistakes more interesting rather then my thoughts, ideas and work that i put on here.