Jamie House Lecture

Jamie House: Camera obscura building and Pinhole camera.

He showed us some of the projects he had done and is working on...
Pinhole Parcel Project... Posted pinhole camera's to different people all over the world, anywhere from 24 hour exposure to 336 hours. Focused on the journey of light. Subject out of his hands, photography is about the process of making an image.
Joe Babcock Collaboration... Pinhole journey project. Posted the pinhole box to and from each other until the front was covered with postage stamps, last stamp covering the pinhole. Second project posting to and fro adding pinholes to the box.
Englands Largest Camera Oscurer... 7m wide blacked out tent. One normal, one rear projection and one multi-image.
Slit projection camera obscurer. Aristotle theory of light, separating light colour with prism.. Made each tent different colours. One green, one red and one blue using slit projection and blocking off prisms.
Stranger mail art... Pinhole image of self (30 sec) Posted to stranger, they take image of themself and post back. Double exposure portraits.
Stranger memories... Long exposure on digital. Computer screen looking through strangers photo albums online. Multiple exposures.

Influenced by cubism, victorian spirit photography, postal art, John Hilliard,Nancy Burson...

I found the lecture facinating. I had no idea that all these different sorts of things could be done with a pinhole camera. I loved the creativity and imagination that went into the different projects. After the lecture he ran a workshop where we could make our own pinhol camera's which was loads of fun and he was very friendly and helpful. I made this picture... (very unflattering but loads of fun)....

Competitions...

I've entered images to 2 photography competitions. A protrait into the AOP student photography awards and a wildlife shot into the National Geographic competition. Doubt they'll get anywhere but thought I'd give it a go... The images are below.

A short review on Jamie Beeden lecture...

Jamie Beeden has worked for 15 years as an assistant and photographer. He first spent 3 years working for Ranking when he was an up and coming photographer and managed through him to have images submitted into Dazed and Confused magazine. He now works as a freelance photographer shooting for record companies and recently more editorial and exhibiting.

During the lecture he showed us 6 images from his website which hi-lighted what could be achieved in different amounts of time. Some shoots he has all day to take and others he had only a few minutes. I found it very interesting seeing how good a quality image could be produced in such a small amount of time (which all inevitably comes down to practice and knowledge) I also found it interesting learning about how to talk to clients and see what they want and having back up ideas in case what you originally planned fails or the client is uncomfortable doing it.

Overall I found the lecture very insightful as to what it would be like working as a commercial photographer. Even though it is not a path I wish to take, I managed to still gain some valuable tips from it.

5 years time

I created this image for my work based learning project. It shows where I want to be in 5 years time. I want to be a dive master traveling around Asia, South America and Africa and I want to fud that by doing underwater and travel photograhy and selling to stock libraies. I would also like to try and get involved in underwater conservation, particularly sharks.
I found the images on google and merged them together on photoshop.