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PHOTOGRAPHY

Dani Collenette

35mm Digital Lomography Snapshots Edited External

INTRODUCTION This is a portfolio of my Photography. I have a passion for Photography, which is fuelled not only by my course here at UCA Epsom but also by my job at a small photographers in Surrey.

I have divided my photographs into the following six sections, 35mm, Digital, Lomography, Snapshots, Edited and External as I think these are the main areas in which I base my work.

35mm

These photographs are all shot using 35mm film.

I normally choose the film Kodak Colour Plus, 200 ISO, as it gives a warm hue and a slight grain.

DIGITAL These photographs are all shot using my Cannon EOS 400D.

LOMOGRAPHY

All of these photographs are taken with my Holga Lomography camera, It has coloured flash filters and a double exposure switch, none of the photographs have been edited. Again I have used the Kodak Colour Plus, Iso 200 film.

SNAPSHOTS In the past I have more or less discarded Photographs taken with my compact camera, as I saw them more of a record of a day, not an art form.

I felt that as I could not manually adjust the settings most of the work was done for me. Although my compact camera does offer a few manual options such as altering the white balance, exposure, flash on/off and macro on/off- I still take a lot more pride in my 35mm and digital SLR photographs.

However, I have included some Photography under the title of “snapshots” as that is what they are.

I always carry my compact camera with me, so not to miss a photographic opportunity. After seeing an exhibition called “Snapshots” at the Van Gogh museum, I realised what a waste it was not to give these photographs any credit whatsoever just because of the device they were taken with - as their general composition and format can still be

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EDITED This group of photographs I have edited in some way after I shot them. In this section I mainly focus on portrait photography.

The main editing being the surrounds as I wanted a studio feel, although the images where shot within my house. Later on in this section I have experimented with changing the hue, saturation and also layering colours to create a dream like, surreal, effect.

EXTERNAL These photographs I have been asked to take extenally, I have only touched upon it here within my Photography Portfolio and will expand a lt further within my External Posistioning. I was asked to take photographs at Keston Prinary School’s Fete and also a Keston Primary School’s Year 6 leavers party.

The photograhs were used by the school and also uploaded to Flickr for the parents to download. I was also asked to photograph my friends band “Night Never Dies” at a small gig they did in Croydon.

LEAVERS PARTY

NIGHT NEVER DIES

To the right is a “Mini Planet� I made by distorting a photograph of the band members.

FMP As I have such a passion for photography, it is a medium I will work with very closely for my Final Major Project.

The area of photography I enjoy the most is manual film photography, as not only I feel I have contributed so much more the end result, and therefore can take much more pride in my photograph, but I also think it is the most ascetically pleasing. The grain and mystic colours 35mm film presents to the photograph , provides a really rustic quality, and is not something you can really digitally manipulate. I also love the unpredictablitly and suspense of waiting for a roll of film to be developed.

In this portfolio I have experimented with both black and white, and colour photography. Wthin my other art work I have looked at the way colour can kill an image, I am not going to pursue this in such a bold and dramatic way for my FMP, however I will continue to look at the effect colour has on a photograph and whether it adds or detracts from the photographs overall ascetic.

I aim to start my FMP by not only photographing in both black and white and colour, but also photographing objects and animals that are a clear indication of black and white, or colour, for instance I could photograph a bunch of flowers, because it is rich in colour, and then look at how de-saturating the image effects it’s overall appearance, or similarly I may Photograph a chess board, a trade mark of black and white checks, and add colour to the image.