Photography Studio 1

 This is a scene that I see almost every morning and have started capturing photos of it often. Sometimes on my phone quickly at a glance and occasionally on my digital camera and once on film (shot on colour need to take them to a lab still.) I love the qualities of this photo, it builds a frame within a frame and has a subtle accent of colour with he pink grow light in the window. The frame is interrupted by the lamp on the left side of the window. As I was writing this I realized why I like this shot so much. The movie Hereditary by Ari Aster is my favourite movie of all time as I thoroughly enjoy the horror genre and this movie is a masterpiece. The following photo is a still from the movie that my photo reminds me off and subconciously probably was riffing off of. It would be fun to do a series of images with this light on in a room, maybe I will do that for fun sometime. 

  This selection of photos is in response to my creative rut I have felt recently. I really love what I have taken in these selects and think pursuing more of a street approach to photography will fulfill me far more than what I have been doing as of late. There is something magical about just going out and shooting and letting the world find you then rather trying to manufacture it. I shot two rolls of film on the weekend shot on HP5 pushed to one stop over in development. Some of the shots worked out really well and some not so great. I think slightly more development time would have helped as I feel their is a loss in detail in a lot of the shots. The water in the development lab was running very cold and I don't think I compensated for that as well as I could have. I also think my metering whilst on the street is still very poor. I want to learn to shoot street without a grey card which is what I do as it is so annoying to pull one out every time. Better judgement of what I am ...

  This project brought me a severe amount of frustration. I did a lot of reflection during this time period and felt incredibly uninspired to do anything after working on this project. I got lost in the complexities of chasing narratives that don't exist. Trying to make connection that are not there and adding useless elements that confuse the image did no service to myself at all. I chose to strip back all of the superficial elements of this image and focus on my original idea mixing in some elements of experimenting when it came to my development and improving on my technique. So often I get lost in the narrative when creating work that I end up creating superficial things that don't actually mean anything to me. For this exercise all I wanted to do was put a skateboarder (myself) jumping onto a rail down a stair set that is protruding out of my mouth. Purely for the joy of creating and thinking this is funny was so much more impactful than any other iterations I tried to mak...