Open Gardens

Today at the college there was open day at the college for the animal department, this was to make some money and bring interest to the animal department at the college. me and another member of my class who like taking images of peoples pets got together in the studio to open up pet photo shoots for the animals.

 It rained all day and i don;t think there was many people attending as they would have liked as it was just a horrible wet day and was hard to do anything out side. we only got one client with his dog in the studio because with the bad weather no one else brought there pet.  it was a shame but on the bright side i thought it was a good experience and re-jogged my memory at setting up the lights in the studio.

The Animal Man (Birmingham)

Today I went to Wolverhampton. After ringing and asking Roger (The Animal Man) if i could come visit his wildlife sanctuary. He had many animals like foxes, racoons, owls, snakes, eagles etc... when i got there it started to rain and became it was quite a dull day i didn't end up taking many images so he showed me around the sanctuary anyway for ideas and to see what was there for next time.  i took a few images of the foxes while i was there but still the lighting was poor so was hard to get some good images as i only came out with a few strong images .I am going to go again when its a really nice day but at least I know what is there and can think of some ideas for next time I go.

Presentaion

Today i gave a presentation on my work. i thought it went ok, i had some nice feedback from my class mates which gave me allot more confidents. my tutor explained that i just need to make sure i'm positive about my own work and be confident when talking about it.

  The class thought that my idea of printing some of my final work on mirror was a really good idea.

Stratford Butterfly farm

Wednesday, 4^th 2011

I went to Stratford butterfly farm to take some images of the butterflies. It was a really hot and sunny day which was good as it was the right climate for the butterflies in there enclosure and the lighting was really good for me and my camera. The overall images where great and I narrowed down the images to the strongest few.

Sue Flood

I looked into a photographer called Sue Flood.  Sue's work is really amazing, she works along side her husband who photographs allot the underwater photography. Sues work is truly inspiring.  Her work is  based in more colder surroundings such as north pole, south pole which she takes pictures of whales, polar bears, penguins etc.

Dog photoshoot

The following friday i took some more images of dogs in the studio, but also i tried some images outside as well of the dogs running around and playing. I was happy with the final outcome of the images.
 Photographing more regular in the studio has gave me more confidence with technical side like light set ups. Also it is building up contacts with people with animals to start me out making some money, one of the ladies with the great danes has asked me and another student to take some photographs with there open day at the college as there will be loads of owners and they pets arriving. Below is a image i took of connie the border colly (this image was taken outside)

Friday studio dog shoot

Friday 25th march

Today we had organised dog photo shoots through the day. one the class mates angela brought in her wolf dog, this was a great dog to take images as her breed is very unique. the other dogs we photographed were a Staffordshire terrier and a terrier cross the shoots went well and i found i was more confident and more Comfortable taking the images.

Also that day i have made a poster to put around the college advertising me and Aimee being available to take on some more studio sessions with there furry friend.