Sunday 15 February 2009

My World...


After a discussion with Hugh I’ve come to realise that my photos don’t really have any meaning behind them, the photos work and are a good set of images but then again you can’t really take a bad picture of the Guggenheim as its such an amazing building, and its impossible to make it look bad. For example have I just taken photos of the Bilbao and Guggenheim because I love the place and the architecture or just because my sister lives there? I took the photos because of my love of the city. The Guggenheim is one of my favourite landmarks, the other being The Glastonbury Tor. To expand my project more I am going to take photos of my three places in my world. Bilbao, Glastonbury and Nottingham. Glastonbury being home and Nottingham of course being university. I am hoping to produce a series of images showing architecture and landscapes of all three places I spend long periods of time at….. My World. …..So for the next couple of days I am going to be taking LOTS of photos around Nottingham to try and further this idea and create a better project….

Thursday 12 February 2009

The School Run...


In a previous blog I mentioned the black and white images I have been scanning in. I scanned in one of my most favourite images of a street in Bilbao with the Guggenheim being seen through the street. I particulary like this photo as I like how I have captured the parents collecting their children from school and the busyness of the street. What I find interesting about this photo is the contrast of the old buildings and then in the distance you can see the modern architecture of the Guggenheim. I’m not sure if the scanning of the image has worked well as it looks quite grainy. I know this is a digital project but I thought I would see how film would work to be hopefully an advantage to the project. I think the composition of the photo works but I don’t know if the photo works itself with printing issues?……..thoughts please……..

Wednesday 11 February 2009

Jehangir Sorabjee






Whilst researching different artists who photograph the Guggenheim I came across a photographer called Jehangir Sorabjee. The photos to this post are all his. Sorabjee is a Mumbai based photographer who has exhibited his images in various fora and has published his images in various books and magazines. He mostly takes photographs of his home city Mumbai but also takes photographs of landscapes and street photos when travelling. I feel like his photographs are very similar to mine of the Guggenheim, although I was more impressed with his street photography which has made me think about returning to Bilbao and take more photographs of the street life. I like how Sorabjee has used black and white images. I love the strong contrast in the images and how he has not gone for the conventional “tourist” photograph of the city, he is looking deeper into the city, the naturalness its as if he’s not there, just sitting back and watching, Its as if he is a local within that city. I find myself imagining what’s going on in that image and I’d like to think my images were able to tell a story and for people to use their imagination.

http://www.jehangirsorabjee.co.uk/index.html

Tuesday 10 February 2009

SNOW in Nottingham...






Forgot to mention the snow!!! How can I forget to mention that outburst of white fluff!! I took a few photos of thought I would upload some onto here for you all to enjoy and bring back your memories of making snowmen and snowball fights!!

I miss Bilbao....






Its been a while since I last did a blog..…this is because I’ve been concentrating on editing my photos in adobe photoshop. When I say editing, I have been slightly changing contrasts, balances and curves etc. I am the type of person who just tends to spend hours on photoshop, changing things here and there to get the best outcome out of photographs. Sometimes after hours of photoshop I tend to just keep the photograph in the same condition before I attacked it with photoshop. Even if I do spend hours working on an image and don’t even change it I feel like I havn't wasted my time. Although you make think I am wasting my time but I feel glad that i've had the chance to change it even if I don’t like it and leave it to its original. Here are several photographs which I have of the city. I have also been scanning in images I have taken in black and white film. I know this project is digitally based but I wanted to see what my scanned images would look like if I digitalized them slightly…….yes again my playing around on photoshop. These photos I will add in my next blog……….. Also the title of this blog is true I do miss Bilbao, I miss the culture, the surroundings, the freedom, the people and most of all my sister.....hopefully i can have a quick getaway again.....