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The Old Station, off the A446, near Tintern, Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom. Tuesday 2nd February 2016.
The photograph.
Sally, a model booked for an outdoor photo-shoot, is seen here modelling in her own blue jeans tucked into her own flat-heeled below-knee length boots with side zippers. She is also modelling a size XL/16 Brave Soul brand leopard-print faux fur jacket with a hood. Here she is posing next to two old but restored carriages at The Old Station, Tintern, during the typical British winter.
Brave Soul.
Brave Soul is a British fashion brand established in 1972 by the company Whispering Smith, and is the UK’s largest distributor of fashion to high street shops and to online stores worldwide. It grew from a small fashion brand to a global brand offering the best of British design and street style.
Whispering Smith was founded in Manchester in 1967. It started as a family-owned business, and grown to one of the largest suppliers of young fashion. They also have two more brands, and their own wholesales warehouse.
The Old Station.
The Old Station was a former railway station near the town of Tintern, on the long since disused Wye Valley Railway line. The line was a 15 miles long railway line running between the towns of Chepstow and Monmouth in Wales. It opened in 1876, was operated by the Great Western Railway often abbreviated as GWR, until it was taken over by British Rail which then closed the line in 1964.
The rail station was bought and refurbished into a café and exhibition, it is open to the general public. Monmouthshire Country Council bought a couple of old carriages which were refurbished as gift shop, tourism information, and an exhibition. The two carriages are displayed on what is left of the old rail tracks.
The Project.
I booked Sally for a two-hours photo-shoot project, which was to be split into two parts. The first part was to be a winter fashion photography, and the second part was to be fur fetish photography. Before meeting up for the photo-shoot, I was in email communications with her and requested that she wears some casual outfit, specifically the jeans tucked into boots style, she was to bring a few change of her own tops or blouses, and that I would bring along some of the faux fur coats.
The project was to double as both a stand-alone range of photos, and as part of a graphic design work. What I mean is that the photos can be stand-alone, like just simply the photos displayed on their own, such as framed on a wall or posted online (like Flickr), or that they can be imported into some graphic design work I may be doing, like creating a fashion catalogue.
As I have been a very busy full-time single parent and carer, my photography and graphic design skills were getting rusty. Thankfully as the kids were much older and attending school, I could be able to get to try to do some work for myself, and attempt to refresh my skills, plus build up a portfolio.
I had not been able to find a suitable outdoor location, however it was Sally who lived in Wales, suggested The Old Station, near Tintern, and it was suitable for my projects.
To see some more of Sally, you can view her in this album: www.flickr.com/photos/132335712@N05/albums/72157719210845529
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Photographs were taken at The Old Station, Tintern, Monmouthshire, Wales, United Kingdom. 2nd of February 2016.
About the model and the shoots.
Sally was booked for a two-hours outdoors photo-shoot, on the grounds of The Old Station at Tintern. The model was posting in a casual winter style outfit. She modelled in a tan coloured faux fur jacket, bought second-hand from charity shop. She worn her own casual sweater with her own blue jeans tucked into her own brown knee-length boots. I had requested the kind of jeans-tucked-into-boots kind of outfit, and she came with the outfit good enough for my plan.
The photographs of Sally posing in the front of an old carriage, were taken at various lens length settings and myself at various distance from the subject. That’s why the size of the carriage behind her looked different from other similar shoots.
About the location.
The Old Station was a former rail station near the town of Tintern, on the long since disused Wye Valley Railway line. The long gone line was 15 miles long, between the towns of Chepstow in the south and Monmouth to the north of Tintern. It opened in 1876 and was operated by Great Western Railway (GWR) until taken over by British Rail, then closed in 1964.
The rail station was bought and refurbished into a café and exhibition, and is open to the public. Monmouthshire County Council bought a couple of old carriages, which were refurbished as gift shop, tourism information, and an exhibition. The two carriages are displayed on what’s left of the rail tracks.
If you wish to know some more about the location, simply Google “the old station tintern.”
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Another shot here from the other night with Ally.
I was really impressed with how much light these small sparklers can give off.
After we grabbed a quick bite to eat, we grabbed some supplies and headed out. Ally decided to wear her nice red coat which really pops nicely.
After we figured out a good system of lighting the sparklers, we got the shots we needed and that was that.
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Intro.
Back in the late 1980s, I trained in traditional graphic design while at college. When I said “traditional” I meant the old fashion way, using pens, pencils, craft knife, cutting mat, masking tapes, and working on paper, as opposite to digital graphic design which is done on computer. Starting from the middle 1990s, I got myself a Windows based PC, then bought a graphic design software, and started self-training.
Few years ago, I upgraded my computer (4th upgrade), and changed my graphic design software to Adobe brand. While I was a full-time single parent, I continue to keep my skills refreshed by doing my own graphic design projects, mainly to keep my portfolio updated in case I get a chance for an interview.
This is one of the graphic design project ideas I came up with in 2016. A DVD case cover and DVD Boxset based on a (non-existence) television series.
I came up with an idea of a detective/crime drama, centred on a leading female character, and using an eponymous title.
An eponymous title means of a person giving their name to something. For example, a character’s name, often just a single name, used as a title for a series. Examples…
Bergerac. British 1980s police detective series.
Castle. American 2010s crime/comedy series.
Lewis. British spin-off from Inspector Morse.
MacGyver. American 1980s television series.
Columbo. American 1970s-2000s detective series.
I used Kimberley which is a surname in the English language, and it is a variant of Kimberly. Point of note: It is also a given name as well as a surname. I used the variant Kimberley as a surname instead of the more common Kimberly as first name.
The idea of the plot is a single mother of two teenagers, juggling between her personal life at home and her job working for the police. The idea for the cover design is the leading character out and about, on her own, as if she’s lost in thoughts, possibility thinking of the police investigation and also of her personal problems.
How was that done?
I booked Lulu, a model based in Newport, Wales, United Kingdom, for an outdoors photo-shoot, as part of the graphic design project. When setting up the photo-shoot, I explained to Lulu what my project is about. It helps if I give her some background on what it is about, and explain to her what I want her to do, so that she would then know what kind of posing to do. She posed in different ways that are what I hoped for.
You can view some of the photographs from the photo-shoot in the album titled Lulu here: www.flickr.com/photos/132335712@N05/albums/72157719202020434
After getting the photos I needed, the next step was to find out the dimensions of a DVD case cover and a DVD Boxset case. Usually the case cover is much easier to work with, but the Boxset dimensions is bit tricky. When I’ve got the dimensions, I then started Adobe InDesign, set up a new spread,* and created the layout.
*We call it a spread, not a page.
For the case cover, the layout can fit on a single A4 spread. But for the box layout, it needed to be done on A3 spread. The case cover layout is often of the right dimensions on the first go (if you get it right the first time), but the box dimensions needs to be double-checked. This was done by printing out just the layout, cut it out, place it on a box, check if it fits or not. It was a simple case of adjust the layout’s dimensions in the software.
Then I imported the original photograph into Adobe Photoshop and saved it as a .PSD file, then imported the .PDS file into the main layout in the .INDD file. Next task was to simply just type the words on it, add any other graphics or other photographs, and make any adjustments to the objects.
The above image shows a screen capture of the completed layout design in the InDesign workspace, and the inset shows a photo of the finished work.
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In the Woods somewhere in Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, on Tuesday 31st January 2018.
About this photograph.
This is Janey, a British model living in Yorkshire, England, whom I booked for a two-hours photo-shoot. The first half as outdoors, and the second half was indoors.
Here, she is modelling in a casual winter outfit. She is wearing an animal print faux fur coat from Roman Originals, in size XL, which is roughly UK dress size 20. Along with the fur coat, she is wearing her own dark colour top with white dots, her own blue jeans tucked into a pair of under-knee length, flat heeled boots. Janey is also wearing a light coloured scarf with pictures of birds all over the scarf. She is also modelling with her own tan coloured suede handbag.
She is posing and showing off the casual winter style, in some woods near her home, during a typical cold and damp English January weather. There wasn’t any snow around at that time, but there was some sunlight through the trees. The ground is not that bad, not very muddy, still good firm enough.
About the overall subject.
Roman Originals was established in Birmingham, in 1957. It started as a family owned business manufacturing ladieswear for many shops. They manufacture a wide range of outfits, including daywear, eveningwear, workwear, and outerwear. They design and manufacture various women’s outfits for all ages and of various sizes, from 10 to 22.
In 1998, the company opened their first retail shop so they would sell their own clothes, and over the years, they expanded to about 150 shops in the United Kingdom, as well as still trading with department stores.
Some years later, they renamed their company to simply known as Roman, but still trading as Roman Originals PLC.
Notes.
My camera’s internal clock was set to the wrong year and I never noticed it for maybe a couple of years. When I started to notice the year is wrong, I got around to checking and setting the correct date in my camera. The year I took those photos were in 2018, not in 2017.
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A great afternoon at the Royal Academy seeing Kerry's work up close. Internationally acclaimed artist Kerry James Marshall is one of the most important painters working right now.
'His vivid and mostly large-scale paintings place the Black figure front and centre. Marshall builds upon the Western tradition of history painting and makes visible those people who were so noticeably absent in the works that came before him. These powerful paintings are full of references which span art history, civil rights, comics, science fiction, his own memories and more. He uses these to comment on the past, celebrate everyday life and imagine more optimistic futures.'
This exhibition of his paintings will be the largest outside of the US, and the first chance for many to experience his works in the UK.
I had come across some inspiration early in the day yesterday. Sometimes these are dangerous situations for me; my brain likes to really wander off and gets tied up with thoughts. I get some great ideas when consumed by creative thinking, while other times, my mind gets pulled too far down the rabbit whole and nothing quite works out. When nothing works out, those are usually the times when I learn the most and it ends up being really beneficial. I am really accepting failure lately for the success it actually is.
The idea I had was inspired from (my words for seeing someone else's idea, and trying it for myself) Jenna Martin of Jenna Martin Photography (www.facebook.com/JennaMartinPhotography, www.flickr.com/photos/jennamartinphotography). Incredible artist with amazing social networking skills, I must say.
Lately, I am really interested in balancing exposures so the sparkler shoot idea interested me right away. Originally with flash and ambient light balancing but now I am looking for it everywhere. I think it really helps build a great shot.
I had plans to hang out with my really good friend Ally and was happy to hear that she didn't mind taking some photos outside. We started out at the new City Plaza in downtown Regina, Saskatchewan. I chose this location for the nice lights to get the exposure of her face and hopefully some nice bokeh in the background.
It was blisteringly cold with the wind so we didn't last too long there but managed to get a few shots.
I wasn't able to pull of the technique I was going for but I am still happy with the final product. As with anything new, I am glad I learned a few things:
1. Always bring your mittens with you, even for a little while.
2. Sparklers can burn very quickly, including thumbs and fingers.
3. I really need an assistant on shoots like this.
I am not discouraged to get the shot I wanted but I realize I need an extra hand and perhaps a less windy day. With an assistant, I can get a little more separation between the lens, sparks, and subject and get a good mix.
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