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this short film is amazing The Shooting Gallery channel4 the photographers are inspirational.
i particularly like The neglected by David Gillanders although it's harrowing..it's documentary photography at its best (in my humble opinion).. and calls into question the passive role played by the image maker..
i.e. how can he stand around watching these children harm themselves? what kind of impact did it have on him personally? the opposing view is that without the photographer being present we would never have known..  so the children are brought to the attention of a wider audience..but has that stimulated a change? there are all dead now but what impact has this documentary had for children of the next generation?
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oh i also read this too about photo books i'm thinking of a book (or even two) for both projects the ones i've seen so far are great.

project2

me an mo (mum) went to cornwall to stay with my aunt. they both knew i wanted to take photos but it wasn't until day two that i started to think that this could become my second project.

i did take some landscape/seascape shots which are "pretty" and "nice" and easy on the eye..

but then i also took plenty of images of the sisters and my aunts house 

i think i'll make a small book 

of course if i went back today - having reviewed all the images together, i would probably take a lot more.

oh and the weather was fabulous 

sunshiny day

outside with Linzi

so here are two examples using the travel pack and different lamp shades..

the first is softer and golden and i really like the twinkle in her eye..

although just as pretty 

the second shot has more directional light and so highlights her face more..

i personally prefer the first image. maybe if i messed with the exposure levels i could brighten it a little.. 

inside with flowers

although i love these images 

with this first one the graduation between dark to light in the back ground is too obvious for me

i think we repaired it by covering the lamp which was set underneath..

are these slightly underexposed? 

again we fiddled with the light underneath because some how the light ate the tulip.

i quite like the blur of the leaves with this shot but it has leaked onto the the top of the petals 

i was using f20 if i could have made just the leaves blurry and the petals crisp oh and made the background less grey..........

this is my absolute favourite shot of the night...

a happy accident caused because the flash didn't sinc....

i like the graduated light and the strong yellow...

i've not cropped it or fiddled with it in any way..and i really like it

studio lighting 2

again i started off totally underexposed

i improved the lighting in the centre of the image and used the 'pin hole' preset in silver efex 

studio lighting

as you can see i was totally underexposed..

it took a lot of fiddling in aperture and colour efex4 to create an image worth looking at.

although i'm not sure i like the composition 

Wot no flash?

project 1a

Alli, Holly and I did another photoshoot on wednesday. Alli wanted some high fashion images for her portfolio, the make up and hair was really edgy and Holly looked stunning..

i think some of these are the final images for the assignment. i'm still fiddling with the processing. 

i've got a friend who is a psychology lecturer and we just had a big discussion about these shots. he say they are not portraits because with a portrait you are searching for the essence of the person and these images are simply demonstrating the skills of the make-up artist and the beauty of the model.

allison isn't happy with this next shot because to her it isn't the finished product - the lips aren't painted.
i'm not happy with it because of the three shiny triangles - one between her eyes and the other two at the side of her nose.

this next shot is the finished product but look at the hair coming down the side of her cheek! i know by this time this is something i should be able to remove with GIMP...can i work it out? can i eck..