Autumn is just starting and with in the last 2/3 weeks it's turned Warwickshire into a beautiful range of colours. 

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Shape, Pattern & Texture

Two pieces from my final GCSE year of photography on Shape, Pattern and Texture. I worked solely with film but because of this unfortunately the digital copy of my photographs doesn't have the same feel or quality that the original image has.

Into: In our everyday surroundings patterns, shape and textures are repeated constantly. They can often change the way we feel about places when photographing them. In this project I have explored how shape, pattern and texture is repeated in a range of locations. 

I have looked at man-made building and natural occurrences, and have also looked at how weather and time of day can affect locations.

I hope to show how shape, pattern and texture can change the feel of a location or mood. I want to show how the same building can look and feel very different when observed from different viewpoint.

First Photograph: This photograph is high key at eye level. I took this photograph because it shows the texture of bricks and the wooden bench. The pattern of the bricks is repeated though out the photograph, the lines of the windows, and wall and the bench makes the eye focus on the end of the line of the windows at vanishing point in the background giving it a large depth of field and a large sense of perspective. The weather was nice when I took the shot so I only needed a short shutter speed. The left image I printed with the negatives the right way up, the other the wrong way up, giving me two opposite perspectives. This gives a completely different affect to the viewer as it make them questioning the image and forces them to look at it in a unnatural way.

Second Photograph: In the center of the photograph is a bike leaning against a wall facing the camera diagonally that stretches almost all the way across the photograph to vanishing point. The pattern of the tiles on the floor also pulls the eye back to vanishing point. The photograph is taken from eye level. I also had to use a long shutter speed as there was little light because of the weather. Because of this my film for very pale and I had to use a filter when print my photographs.

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Wire Words Illustrating Their Meaning

Writing in wire, words illustrating their meaning. 

Starting to look down the rout of semiotics, this is all for my Typography project.

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Dried flower - Detail

Dried flower - Detail, a photo by J C Claxton on Flickr.

Dried rose covered in dust, the beautiful delicate detail of the rose caught my eye. Rose petals have always reminded me of cloth, this one might be an old forgotten dress but loved when found again.
I know I always forget about it but love finding it again.

Another experiment with light and model houses.

Another experiment I did for my A2 photography exam project. I was interested in manipulating the form of the paper houses using light, I also wanted to create a sense of emptiness, loneliness and armageddon. I used plain white model house with black and white photography to add the effect I wanted.

My experiments at this time were influenced by photographs like Daniele Del Elnero who makes paper model house out of black paper and photographs them after they have decayed.

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While exploring the title of humans, nature and dereliction/decay I did many experiments before coming to a conclusion. This experiment was using bright sunlight and small paper houses I created.

Playing with Lights

I have always loved the way light changes and seems to bend in a car at night, I was playing around with my new Fuji camera and started playing with the way the light that's reflected off signs and other objects and shadows are captured by the camera lens.

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Contagion

A Level art project - Contagion


It's amazing what you can create with PVA glue, paint and a model.

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Claustrophobia

My first project for my second year of photography A Level was looking at voyeurism and the viewing of skin or bodies. One view point I explored is the feeling of claustrophobia when viewing another body as this would mean a loss of personal space on both sides, something I used aspects of in my conclusion.

These photographs where displayed as supporting work in the show at Trinity School.