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.

West Midlands Safari

I went to west midlands safari today, I have been checking the weather out for some time making sure that it was going to be a nice day, sadly was not as great as it was made out to be on the BBC weather. It was good enough though when I got there as I waited for more around midday so I could get the best of the weather. I had a really good day and I’m very pleased with the images I have collected and now I’m going to have a good look through each image and edit.

Andy Rouse

i met Andy Rouse at focus (2011), he was doing a talk on his new book 'gorillas' i wanted to get his old book tigers though as i been wanted to get it for a while and it was a great opertunity to speak to the man himself and have the book signed :D

Libary Research

I always think it's hard to find some wildlife books where ever i go. i found a few books from the college libary which look like they will be a good help to me;

• Exposing nature (natural history museum)
• wildlife photographer of the year portfolio 12 (bbc)
• The art of wildlife photography - Fritz Polking

some photographers work that will be good to research in;

• Steve smithson
• Martin harvey
• Theo Allofs (german)
  

Fancy Printer

Today at college we used the epilog printer i brought in a mirror to use as i wanted to use the portrait of the bird, it engraved the image onto the back of the mirror so the image came out on both sides i found when looking at the image is looked better on the back side so i have a great new idea for some more mirrors which i would like to use in both materials and techniques assignment and specialist practice!