Window Displays

For my AS Photography exam I am looking at shop windows and recreating my own with a live model.

This shoot should take place this week with the Chemical Flash team. I went to London last week to do some research on different window displays to get some inspiration on what i'm doing for mine. 

Harrods

Harvey Nicoles

Zara

Liberty of London

Topshop

Selfridges

The art of witchcraft

This is the first shoot for the Chemical Flash blog. We chose to do this as we wanted to start of the blog with a bang and build up an audience instantly that appreciates what we do.

The photo shoot below is inspired by witch craft, and we wanted it to be shockingly beautiful.

On the morning of the shoot we went to our college library, and asked the librarian if they had any books on witch craft and spells- his reaction was actually quite funny. He only had one book but it wasn't as useful as we hoped but still was good because we did get some inspiration on lighting and camera angles.

I am glad we did something people weren't expecting, and we hope to continue surprising you in the future! 

CHEMICAL FLASH - THE MAGIC THREE

Hello! I and two other creative geniuses that go to my college have started up a blog recently. 

The idea came to mind when I did a photo shoot with my friend "Pepper" (the model in the joker shoot shown below). The photo's came out so good I just knew that she would be perfect to work with more often especially as she has a past of modelling in her childhood.

We then progressed on to doing another photo shoot that was needed for my photography coursework- which was in a studio. I don't want to get in to too much detail of this shoot now as I do plan to share some photos from the shoot with you guys soon, but something I did notice is that pepper had to do her hair and make - up by herself which was very time consuming and was difficult to do in the time restraints we had which was when we knew we had to bring one more person into this.

Yin Shen / Tony is another student at my college that used to work as a make - up artist and was a model himself in Hong Kong, we found ourselves very lucky to come across such a professional  to work with and was very excited about doing our first shoot. But unfortunately as we are AS students we had our January exams coming up so we paused the photo shoots until after, otherwise we would just be thinking about ways we could improve our shoots throughout our exams. So to keep focussed we didn't talk much of it until all our exams finished & then with all the anticipation built up we had the drive to create something extraordinary and that's what we did.

After meeting up several times and discussing ideas, we decided to go with the name  'Chemical Flash' as the chemical relates to all the experimental shoots we intend to do, and flash relates to my camera flash. We even planned on making a series of YouTube videos for each shoot, and we even took a video for our first chemical flash shoot but none of us had the right equipment to produce it at a good quality, but we do still want to make behind the scenes and on set videos from photo shoots- we'll see how it goes...

I know I've mentioned several shoots that have been done that I haven't uploaded onto my blog yet, but I shall do so soon but for now thanks for the support on all of our blogs!

Pepper (model) www.i-ame.blogspot.com  

Tony (stylist, hair & make up) www.mejustony.blogspot.com

Niten (the photographer) www.enjoythevisuals.blogspot.com

& here is the Chemical Flash blog! www.chemicalflash.blogspot.com

JOKER editorial for i-ame magazine

Message: Trying to encourage people to be who they are and take off the mask and layers of what you've become and go back to yourself.

 THE JOKER IS NOW DEAD

Eyelashes

On Friday 12th November 2010 a make up artist came into my AS photography class to teach some of the girls how to do make up on models- and more importantly so the photographers could take photo's of the girls for the make- up artist's portfolio. After the make-up was done we went down to the studio and I took photographs of her mainly focussing on her eyes. 

The Australian artist has mostly worked in theatre but has also working for the BBC on shows such as Doctor Who. 

Being on the other side of the camera

CHEMICAL FLASH

- My photographs.

As you may already know me and a few friends are going to do a range of photo-shoots every few weeks to keep exploring new ideas and posting them on our group blog- Chemical Flash.

We have not published this yet, but here are some of the photographs taken of myself, which will be used on our blog with a brief description of what my role is for the project (photographer).

THE PRETTY RECKLESS

On Thursday the 19th August 2010, I went to The Pretty Reckless gig at the O2 Academy Islington, It was one of the best nights of my life! I’m not sure if it was better going to The Monster Ball and seeing Lady GaGa because it was a totally different scene! I went to The Monster Ball with my dad, and we were seated. The Pretty Reckless gig was standing and I was with loads of friends which made it more fun!

I knew it would have been hard to sleep the night before because I love Taylor Momsen, I love her music, her band and her acting in Gossip Girl. To me- she is the awesomest teen celebrity around! So it was exciting knowing that I’ll be seeing her in the matter of hours! So I went to sleep after Family Guy (I just had to watch that!) & woke up at roughly 7am. Got ready and was at the train station at around 8.

So I got to Angel station and I met up with my friends and we got Starbucks and decided to start queuing. We were determined to get front row because WE LOVE TAYLOR MOMSEN so we decided to queue at a crazy time, as we were standing it was possible to get front row. So we started queuing at around 10am & the wait actually wasn’t so bad because of the amazing people we met in the queue line. So that was all good.

Then something unexpected and exhilarating happened. TAYLOR MOMSEN AND HER BAND WALKED PAST US! She was about 1 meter away from me, we all tried getting her attention and omg if she spoke to me i probably would have died, but she did say “hey guys! I’ll be right back”, it was so amazing! So she went in and didn’t come back out. We waited for about an hour when I decided to ask the security- guard standing in front of the doors in which Taylor entered & I was told she isn’t coming back out because she has: sound check, hair and make up, and then some press before the show. That really sucked, but I was warned by one of my friends that she wouldn’t have came out so I wasn’t too disheartened.

A few more hours went by and these people with o2 came out of the doors and did make up and drew X X X X on our arms (it’s on their band logo). Then the doors opened! I got my ticket checked and literally ran two floors up & entered a room with about 10 teenagers clutching onto a barrier. I ran to them and stood beside them and waited for the rest of my friends to get their tickets checked and for them to run up.

They played MGMT’s album while we waited,which got a little annoying because we needed some rock to get us hyped up. Then the supporting act Francesqa came on stage. I didn’t know who were they were before the gig but they were good! Very alive and they were head banging in sync which was awesome. The lights dimmed again and we waited for Taylor Momsen. Around 9.30pm her band came on stage but not her! They gave a short intro and started playing Light Me Up. It was amazing! & then Taylor came on stage and everyone went wild! The atmosphere was amazing, the crowd went crazy throughout the whole thing but particularly in Make Me Wanna Die because that hit #1 in the UK Rock Chart. Also because that was the only single out.


I was taking photo’s throughout the whole thing and I also took some video’s through my iPhone, but those weren’t very good quality and the audio didn’t respond when the base was too high, so as it was too much for my phone to handle some of the video’s I took are silent. At the end of the gig Taylor switched of her amp and went of stage, and the drummer came to the edge of the stage and threw his sticks into the audience and I caught one! I couldn’t believe how lucky I was to have caught and kept the stick. 

The concert was over and I was really tired and couldn’t wait to get home! I was clutching onto the stick when leaving the venue and there my dad was standing waiting to pick me up. It was the best night of my life so far. 

Lady GaGa Alternative Monster Ball Intro

This is the first video i made through other youtube videos. I managed to download them, then re open them in Windows Movie Maker, and crop and combine them in a way it goes. The track is from her Monster Ball Intro.
Jumping - Lady GaGa
The other clips are also from The Monster Ball Tour.

SANDY THE SQUIRREL

These are some pics i took at Hyde Park. As it is a protected park by the natural trust, they look after the ecosystem within. Therefore I managed to get some shots of a squirrel! Which is quite rare for many photographers. So it was great to shoot. 

WALLET

These photographs are paricularly about taking a closer look at things you wouldn't notice everyday. I've started collecting badges from trademark places that i go to. The BBC badge is from when i went to the studio on a trip. The V & A badge is when i went to the Victoria and Albert Museum- London. The Oceanarium is when i went to the aquarium in Bournemouth last year. Underneith is an OMFG badge from HMV. & the coin is from the Rainforest cafe - London.