Ooops! It's been quite a while!

I have just realised how long it has been since my last post - sorry folks! there have been several projects for the f11 photo group including one of my suggestions - Avedon, as in Richard.

Whilst on our honeymoon in Paris we stumbled across an exhibition of his work including 'in the American west' series. To see these prints in the flesh was awe inspiring. I wanted to have a go at my interpretation of his work and finally I had my chance.

Avedon used daylight for his work - a luxury I did not have with the failing winter light so I had to get creative with some speed lights. I wanted to use Jeff as my muse in either a painter or fisherman guise. Time limited me to a single choice - the fisherman - this was based around the image of a young teenage boy that Avedon had captured holding a shotgun. A short 30 minute shoot followed with Jeff striking various poses until I found the one I thought provided the stronger composition - slightly more unnatural with the hand positioning, but better for it I think.

The print was done on a warm-tone fiber based paper which added to the finished product.

Twilight Hours project - final images

I think these turned out pretty well, please leave feedback in the comments section.

Kev

Jonathan Worth photo shoot images

I helped Jonathan Worth with a studio shoot a few months ago at the uni. Jonathan had spotted Devonne and Bayleigh at a fashion show a few days before and arranged to meet up with them and their mum to do some shots. We set up the studio and shot on both digital and medium format. It was a great experience for me and I learned a lot from JW. Please check out his excellent work via the link at the bottom of this post.

www.jonathanworth.com

Fishbone photography exhibition - including my work!

Fishbone Photographic Arts Group would like to invite you to their annual exhibition. The exhibition runs from 27th June to 11th July 2009. The private view is being held on Thursday 25th June from 6pm until 9pm. Come along to find out more about the group.

Thanks

Kevin

Fishbone Gallery, 11 Hurst Road, Longford, Coventry. CV6 6EG.

Interiors project

I managed to grab 10 minutes this morning to shoot a few images for the FISHPHARTs (now f11) interiors project. I have been struggling to access the space as we are in the midst of degree show madness at the uni, as you can see there is a stage setup in the dome space. Ideally I would want to shoot with an empty space and use some flash against the walls but it wasn't possible with the stage in place so I concentrated on lighting the dome. I used a combination of 3 nikon speed lights, two off board on remote and one onboard as a master. This was useful to control the flashes without running over to them every time an adjustment was needed. Here's a sample of the images, your comments are welcome.

Jonathan Worth photos in National Portrait Gallery

Jonathan Worth, a lecturer I work with at Coventry University, currently has his work exhibited in the NPG. I helped interview him today for the ITV central news who are doing a story on him. He's a great guy to work with and an excellent photographer who has worked all over the world and deserves the recognition. Check out the work in the NPG here. Well done mate!

You may recognise that the guy in the photo is Alan Moore who penned graphic novels such as V for vendetta, Watchmen, Sin City and many more!