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Micky J rocked Camberley theatre last night!

Had an amazing time assisting Liam Bendell on his new project last night in Camberley. Shooting Ben, a Micheal Jackson tribute. Cant wait to see Liams shots from last night and looking forward to shooting Kiss with him in a couple of weeks.

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Novotel

A days shoot for Novotel in Milton Keynes. The promotion package for the wedding facities available at the hotel were in desperate need of updating, A fun day and good to get the lighting kit back out and put to good use.

 

Test shoot

A test shoot for an architect based in Milton Keynes, hopefully the work will lead to some exciting opportunities in the future.

 

London 2012

I waited a long time for the day when I could watch Bobby White walk out into the Copper Box at the Olympic Park, such an incredible achievement and well deserved after all his hard work and dedication.

Thanks to other distractions this summer the day came round quick and before I had really taken time to consider what we were all about to be a part of, walking into that stadium and seeing so many friendly faces there to support Bobby was amazing.

The incredible atmosphere and that moment Team GB came out the tunnel and I saw Bobby at the front, leading the team out as captain is something I will never forget.

The Olympics in Londond have been an amazing experience and so much more special with Bobby being involved, he has truely inspired me to be a better person and I am so proud of him.

 

Well done Bob and Thankyou x 

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And just like that, its all over.

 

No more wild nights out, no more giving Dan Allen a shout.

I'll miss the fun, I'll miss the sun, but more than anything...

I'll Miss EVERYONE!

 

If you didnt already know, the girls from Birmingham know how to throw a party!

The first Mustachio night at Ibiza Rocks House, Pikes Hotel. Had such a good night and look forward to the next one, good tunes, great people and one hell of a party!  

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Ibiza Rocks The Boat... Everytime!

Has to be a top highlight of the trip so far, standing at the back of the boat as everyone turned to cheer for me after another great day out on the Ibiza Rocks Boat Party.

 

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Sankeys July 4th

First club night shooting, I think it went well but would love to know what you think? And if you've never been raving with your 5D MarkII pumping in the air, I strongly recomend it! What a night!

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Great start to the summer in Ibiza

Ibiza, the mild cathedral city cheese of summer destinations... Once you've had a taste, you cant imagine why you would ever need anything else in your life. It all started with my first trip last summer when we came out for the Pugsley wedding, this year it started with a three day stag that turned into a ten day blur of sunshine and good times. It has now lead to working as a photographer out here and here are the results of my first weeks work so far, starting with a pool party at Jet apartments in Playa Den Bossa...

 

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Nike...Be Somebody

For my final project of my 2nd year at uni I have shot an advertising campaign for Nike sportswear, I have created 6 billboards with the concept of "Be Somebody".

 

I developed the concept through researching sportswear campaigns and more specifically the Nike brand identity. I discovered that the majority of the Nike campaigns that we see feature high profile sports personalities that are endorced by the brand, this is something that I would obviously not be able to replicate however I wanted my campaign to relate and communicate more with the customer instead referencing the top end of sporting activities.

 

I decided that I would shoot a variety of sports and activities that are popular in the brands product range and although I would use models, I would later remove the models from the clothes in order to make them appear alive. The idea is to engage with the customer and allow them to imagine themselves in the clothes and as the sports personality.

 

Modern Day Potions

As part of my Creativity in Context assignment, I followed on from my Casio ad campaign and produced a still life editorial featuring a selection of drinks.

I chose these specific drinks for the series because they each have an added characteristic, this characteristic being that the drink has a history of medicinal values or that the drink had a psychological or physical effect on its consumer.

I also chose these drinks as they are widely consumed across the world by people who believe the drink helps them to feel better or energised when in fact, each drink also has many negative
effects associated with it.

The idea was to create a 19th century styled, home made apothecary scenario for each image and each image would be styled in association with the drinks history and characteristic.

 

Coca Cola has a very long history in which it took on many different flavours and ingredients, in its early stages it was considered a patent medicine that people believed would give you a general feel good factor. It was available from many chemists and consumed largely at what used to be known as soda fountains.

To this day people still believe coke has this same effect and often find themselves craving a coke when feeling under the weather or claiming flat coke is good for an upset stomach.

 

 

Absinthe is a very well known controversial alcoholic drink that has that little something extra, when getting drunk maybe just isn't enough and you need to go to that next level. Containing the chemical compound Thujone meant that the drink had a psychedelic effect on the consumer.

Because of the sinister/scientific nature of the drink I wanted to show its creation through a laboratory type process, I also added the Van Gogh painting on the wall to reference the drinks popularity amongst the bohemian culture of France and many artists based there. Van Gogh was a very well known drinker of Absinthe.

 

 

Red Bull was the first drink of its kind to be consumed in such large volumes in this country, I chose it as part of the series because energy drinks are a huge market in todays society and used for obvious reasons. I also chose Red Bull because of the strap line "gives you wings". I thought that it could create an exciting concept for the style and theme of my image, I decided to create a workshop styled set in which it would appear the workman had a desire to fly and was attempting to build wings.

The feathers and string give reference to the story of Icarus and the image on the wall is an illustration showing a man with wings, surrounded by scale marking and measurements for design.

 

The final image of the series is Indian Tonic Water which was one of the first ever treatments used for malaria. The drink contains Quinine which causes an effect on the blood platelets and is used today to ease the effects of cramp, eczema and other common illnesses.

Possibly my favourite image from the series, the composition is working great as it leads your eye through the key features of the frame. I used the anatomical illustration with the thermometer to reference the medicinal value of the drink and as your eye is drawn through from the glass, the bottle and the lamp. You see the chalk board in the background which shows the molecular structure for Quinine which is the key ingredient in the Tonic water.

 

I would like to say a huge thank you to Sophie Youle for working as my stylist on this project and helping me to develop each set to great effect. Sophie is a Visual Comunications student studying in Bournemouth, more of Sophie's work can be found online at sophieyoule.co.uk

 

 

 

Nigel Sylvester - G Shock Commercial "What I Always Dreamt Of"

Casio

After a long summer break from uni it is now time to submit my final images for the first assignment of the second year. The brief was based upon narrartive which encouraged me to consider the theme and concept of my work more thouroughly.

 

My idea is an advertisement for Casio watches and is based upon references to time. The idea is to create an instant association with the product and its purpose, much as you would an iPod or a hoover.

 

The campaign is a series of billboards which are supported by ad shells.

 

 

Casio

After a long summer break from uni it is now time to submit my final images for the first assignment of the second year. The brief was based upon narrartive which encouraged me to consider the theme and concept of my work more thouroughly.

 

My idea is an advertisement for Casio watches and is based upon references to time. The idea is to create an instant association with the product and its purpose, much as you would an iPod or a hoover.

 

 

Cosmetics advertising

My most recent assignment involved creating two bus shelter posters for a cosmetics product, there were other options I could have selected from the brief and originally I had decided to work on a mobile phone network campaign. After sharing some of my ideas which I thought were a good starting point, the feedback I got wasnt so positive...

It was then I decided to switch my idea and work on the cosmetics campaign, I had this idea about organic makeup and I wanted to apply the makeup to flowers. I researched the market and found lots of reference to flowers and products shown alongside them but nothing that showed the makeup applied to the flowers, as I had changed my idea at a late stage and so close to the deadline I quickly started with some test shoots and experimented with my idea.

The first test proved that it was going to be difficult to dress the flowers and actually make them look nice and not like they've been coloured in by some 4 year old with a set of crayons, I talked my housemate into helping me and we spent the night experimenting with the makeup and came to the conclusion that seeing the nail polish dripping out of the flower was the most effective.

 

 

I chose the daffodil as it represented spring time and my campaign was to promote a new spring collection, the difficulty I had with the nail polish campaign was that it didnt work as a package. The nail polish was bright and colourful and I couldn't find an organic range to match that style, this meant that the flower only represented spring and not the organic product. The bright coloured range also would be marketed to a younger audience who wouldn't necesserilly be interested in this kind of imagery.

I then decided to use the ideas I had from another test shoot using botanical bath oils, this approach made much more sense and the campaign worked much better. These are the two posters I submitted, I feel that in the end my final images were a some what watered down version of what I had imagined from the start however this is where my idea develop and working process lead me.

 

 

 

Hard Times By Paul Wenham-Clarke

Paul is one of my tutors and he recently shot a series titled Hard Times, the project documents a variety of Big Issue sellers and is part of their celebrations as this year marks the 20th anniversary of the Big Issue. Paul was kind enough to invite us to the private view in Trafalgar Square and I'm glad we went as it was a really good evening, I was so busy thinking how cool it was to be going that I under estimated the significance of the event and didn't know what to expect. 

It totally changed my opinion of the big issue and I was moved by Paul's speech as working on the project clearly opened his eyes to the realness of some of these peoples situations, the series has some powerful images supported by some brief descriptions about the people and their lives. It made me think about how photography can be used in such a positive way to really make a difference in society, I thought about how amazing it must feel for Paul to know that he played his part in this project and as well as changing other peoples lives he also gained something personal from it also... I want to know how that feels.

Time lapse

Me and my two housemates regularly discuss each others assignments and we help each other develop ideas and concepts which is cool because I often find it easier to think freely and more creatively about other peoples assignments, typical that I cant do it for my own but I think its maybe because I put too much pressure on myself when its my own work. These talks that we have often help me to think outside of my uni work and bring me back down to earth where I can treat photography more like a hobby again.

As part of one of their assignments we've been looking at time lapse video sequences and the other night we went out to do a quick little test, this clip is one of the end results and it has definitely inspired me to take it further and do some of my own experiments soon.

 

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Coffee and night projects

Toby Smith was a guest speaker at my university and he showed a series titled light after dark, it shows all 32 of Englands power stations shot at night. He described himself as a night person and was well aware of the fact that he was way more productive late at night then he was during the day. I also work in this way and it made me realise that planning shoots of this nature will help me to re-establish some enthusiasm in my work, I remember I had worked my way through college this way and often joked with my tutor about being up late with the candle and cheese. Time to get planning...

 

Gary Salter

Gary Salter was a guest speaker at my university and I found his work colourful, funny and full of character. Gary has an amazing ability to create the images for the ideas that he visualises in his mind, whether it is a relatively simple and quick image or a large and complex group shot he invests lots of his own time and money into making his ideas come to life. This is something that I need to get better at, making notes from the rough ideas I have and then bringing them to life and I was able to see the potential in this method after seeing the successful results of some of Garys personal projects.