FMP

I have come up with the idea of doing extreme sports photography as I’m very into that kind of thing. I will mainly base my photography around mountain biking with my friends doing self-portraits and photos of my friends who would be willing to be involved. I will use many different locations as it will easy to get to them as I have access to a car, these places will include chicksands in Bedfordshire, Woburn sands in Bedfordshire and other locations around Suffolk. I will look to borrow other lenses from college to make my photography much more interesting.  I’m looking to make a decent sequence photo.

 

i have started researching moutain bike photography to give me extra ideas as i already do extreme sports photography. I am signed up to a website called 'pinkbike.com' this is where proffesional photographers can upload their work and people can view it for free. this is a great site for research as there is endless tutorials on how to shoot better.

here is an example of what i want to accomplise

 

Stop otion music video

Peter Gabriel-Sledgehammer

`Peter Gabriel's 'Sledgehammer' music video was very popular at the time it was created in 1986 as no-one had done anything like this. The music video was directed by Stephen Johnson his work on Sledgehammer won 9 awards, including Video of the Year and Best Direction in a Video. The video starts off with medical photos of cells and blood flowing through veins which gets the audience wondering what is going to happen then it moves onto close-up shots of Peter Gabriel's facial features. The video moves onto Peter Gabriel laying down with many different objects moving around in a very random way. I like this video as it is very absract and unique it also doesnt take itself to seriously.

 

OK Go-End Love

The next video i looked at was OK Go-End Love and this music video features stop motion animation. The video for "End Love" was directed by Jeff Lieberman and Eric Gunther, and was filmed at Echo Park, around Echo Park Lake, in Los Angeles. The video shows the four members of OK Go, each dressed in solid neon-tracksuit of different colors, performing moves to the song. The band performed these moves using time lapse photography to create certain special effects, such as the band members appearing to move without walking, to move between two different points rapidly, or to play on the colors of their tracksuits in combination with these effects. I liked this music video because it was made in a fun way and in nice location at Echo Park, they included lots of people and the video goes really with the music.

day 1
didnt have any chocolate but found tese WHAMS!

day 2
the christmas tree

day 3

excitment for christmas, got lots of cards 

day 4
christmas table

day 6

best memory riding with mates

day 7

trees

day 8

christmas presents

day 9 

somewhere i havent been before, during the music shoot

day 10 

new years resolution

day 11

image to symbolise next year, guitar rig 

day 12

light trails 

day 13

landscape with motion

day 14

day 15

view out of my window

day 16

luck

sorry its late but post a picture of a Christmas tree :P

Evaluation

I started this project by researching some photographers that specialised in music portraiture to get an idea of what people were doing and how i could produce my photos. I looked at the work from Todd Owyoung who specializes in music photography and he has worked with some of the biggest names in music. I wanted my work to look like his work as his style of photography is really good becuase of the way he lights his photos.

Once I found out which musicians I was photographing I was able to go and meet them and discuss what they would like in their portait. One of my musicians wasn't too sure what he wanted in his photo so i took his basic ideas and had a look around on google to see if i could find some pictures of drummers. Marco also gave me an idea of what bands he listened to this also helped me find pictures that would help in my research. i found a few images on google and photoshoped them into black and white as this was one of Marcos requirements. The next thing i done for Marcos portraits was create a lighting plan, this was a key part of the planning for my shoot because if i didnt have this then my studio would have been wasted. once i got into the studio it was really easy to set the lights up although i did have a problem with the lights going off which was easily fixed by attaching the shoe to the camera better and making the back light more bright. I got to shoot lots of pictures in the studio and my client felt alot less awkward about it when we got going. after i shot all my photos i took them into photoshop where i adjusted the colors and cropped the images as there was lots of unwanted parts of the images. i also added flames into one of the images as this is marco wanted, this was difficult to make it look right as they didnt suit the image.

my secound client was Simeon, he wanted to do his photos on location and he showed me a few images that he liked, so i came up with the idea of doing his photos in christchurch park as the trees were a nice shade of orange now and with the light shinning through made the lighting for these photos look really good. i didnt need a lighting plan for this shoot as i would be using the natural light. once we had got to the location i asked my client to sit on a bench where i thought would be a good place to start, i also checked my white balance and made sure my camera settings were good for this lighting outside. we got a few pictures with Simeon playing guitar on the bench and then we got some closeups of his face which was another requirement of the client. after we got photos from the bottom of the park we moved up and found an alley way lit by the sun which was coming through the trees casting an orange glow, me and the client found this to be a great place to finish off the shoot and this is where we found that we got the best pictures from. when i uploaded the photos to the computer i found that most of the pictures didnt need editing  so i was able to just find the best ones and tweak them slightly. overall my client was very happy with the outcome and had no complaints.

Harrison Mendel Photography

Harrison Mendel is a photogrpaher and videographer from Kelwona, BC and he is a moutain bike photogrpaher. Harrison doesnt have a website specifically for his photogrpahy but he does use a website widely used by the extreme sports community, Pinkbike.com.

The layout of pinkbike is very simple and user friendly. Its easy to navigate around and find other photogrpahers work. You can put your work into folders so your page is neat and tidy.

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