Blogs tagged "Alevel"

Hi guys, so yesterday I started learning about the history of photography so I thought id share some of the information I've learnt so far with you, as I am typing up my notes ready to go into my sketch book. History of Photography Timeline: • 5th-4th Centuries B.C: Chinese and Greek philosopher...

Got another job interview! A new CEX store is opening up in my town so I think this job will be more up my street than being stuck ina charity shop. Though my way is good at £6.57 and im only 17. Anyways onto photography! I have decided to do the project topic of movement. Our lecture ( Steve) to...

I'm back guys! Officially started my second year yesterday... But its harder choice wise as the options are wide open to what I want to study and create, no guide lines like last year. I'll start with photography as that's going to be the easiest to explain. This year on the marking scheme the pa...

Photographed my first church wedding today! It was only small wedding 40 people at the most, it tipped it down but stopped just for photographs and the brides arrival, bride started crying at the site of me at arrival as she said she thought she never have a photographer. The lighting in the chu...

Finally all done and signed off no more photography till june 10th when i start A2 but id show you guys this! I got 93/100 for my coursework 94/100 for my exam so A's all round, if i gain 4 more marks next year on top of these scores ill get an A* Blog soon guys!

Well hello there! Its sunny yay!. Mostly finished my AS photography course now, though my lecture still has to go through my work to tell me if anything is missing. Hopefully not so i can focus on my media exam and my ict coursework/exam (using Microsoft access for that absolute pain!). A few of ...

Just done my final part of my photography exam glad that's done out the way, can focus on my other exams for my other subjects now Roasting in the studio today, keep wandering in the darkroom to cool down. Just mounting 2 sets of my exam work on A1 board then need to mount my other 16 photographs t...

Sorry i havent blogged in a while its been very busy. Though it is pay day today yay! Torn whether or not to buy a light meter. Did some more of my 5 hour exam time, need to start window mounting my growing collection of exam photographs, i do not know whether or not to sepia tone some maybe give...

So yesterday I did the first part (30mins) of my five hour exam, I developed 8 photographs I had taken of the cello and chose to develop them on multigrade paper, which mean drying them on board with tape. So for my next lot of images I have order multigrade pearl rc paper to see if I like that if n...

Well first day back and my bus has been cancelled :( because I live in a village we use to have three buses go through at 8.05am however only two went straight through on the main road, the third ( the one I use to catch) came round the houses of the village, this has been cancelled. So I've paid £1...

Well I have a busy day today! Went out on Saturday and took my finial set three photographs in the snow. Worked out okay as it gave me a different setting to the rest of my photographs and creates a unique view to them. Today I have an hour and half to develop a film, and then create contact pri...

Picture time! I havent really had time to evaluate my work because of being at the shop in my time off college, so im planning to evaluate them tomorrow. However i did spend a good hour an a half in the darkroom yesterday printing some prints. I also appear to have a random dog which must of cree...

On the bus home. It been a productive day at college, one film developed from the weekend, took a while to get it on the spiral with it being a 36 exposure film so long! My lecture said why didn't I try buying bulk film instead might be a better option for me. I think im going to look into once I ha...

Well sorry guys no digital photographs to show you just yet.. been really busy havent had time to sit and go through them. Maybe tomorrow or monday ill sort them out. Ergg silly tab button keeps going to "search tags" instead of indenting, anyway The Shoot! I went up to the church in...

So as promised I'll show you all the progress of my prints! Only 2 out of 3 films as i stupidly accidentally exposed my third film to light... However i am still having problems with fibre based paper and drying as it keeps curling so i have decided to buy some resin paper for photographs in m...