getting there

So in my last blog i talked about how i wanted to draw inspiration from Nan Goldin and was going to take photos out camping with my friends. I really don't want them to look like any old photos that someone would put up on facebook, at moment they still very amateur and hopefully a long way from the final photos that i will present.















I like this photo because it shows the emotions as they are happening. I like that Jayden has been captured mid sentence and lisa is laughing. Its natural and just shows friends having fun.










I really wanted to capture how special it feels to have the chance to camp around the fire with good friends. I hoped that having a shot with the boys playing their guitars added to the ambiance.









Showing solitude. Tristan in his own world with his music.

finding inspriation

I’m pretty excited because I’ve finally found a photographer I can get my teeth into. When Stuart mentioned Nan Goldin today and talked about her taking photos mainly of friends I knew that there was something in it for me. I’ve had a look at her work and it is different to what I thought it might be at first.

Her work appeals to me because it’s raw in the sense that the people aren’t glamorous or posed. They have been caught in the moment and some images are really confronting.

I would like to draw inspiration from her for my final folio by the way of photographing friends and family in a un posed fashion. Maybe getting out of bed, or cranky making their breakfast.

I’m going to a friend’s gig this Friday night so I’m going to take lots of pics there. I’m also going camping on Saturday night so thinking that could be a good opportunity to just snap away at my good friends and see what I come up with.

This blog is pretty all over the place- Sorry. But that’s pretty much where my head is at, at the moment.