This is me at my end of year exhibition the photos looked great and every one seemed to like them so im really happy with the out come, although, i cant belive my final year is up, college has been so much fun, and felt like it only started yesterday i will miss it so much, but i had a really nice time at my end of year show and i have some good memorys of the place.

These are my 18th centuary inspired photographs they took roughly 2 weeks to complete and a few strops, but we got there in the end and i could not be happier with the out come please tell me what you think .

The final, final :(

Well thats it the photos have finaly been edited, and i think i can breath a little easeyer now. Editing the phots i think was harder than the acttual shoot at least in the photo shoot we got to have abit of a laugh but this was just stress to the limit im not to best on computors anyway, photoshop is my worst enemy but with a little help from friends i seem to get waht i needed to get done,done. im going to uploade the final images that will be going in to my final exhibition not to sure how there going up yet but i know it will look great so here is my very last FMP.

 Iv only just noticed the clip at the top of this photo but as i said they havnt been edited yet and still need work doing to them.

 I love this pictuer Hanna has such a regel look about her the pose was just fantastic.

This pictuer scars the helll out of me but its fantastic. In the Victorian era the only way they could photograph babys was by covering the mother in a sheet and have her hold the baby upright freeky i know but its in keeping with the period so it had to be done felt so sorry for Hannah beeing stuck under a rug but she did fantastic all my models did.

sneek peek !

im goin to upload some of the photos that were take befor they have been edited so you can get a good idea of befor and after.

This is one of my models Hannah she offered to be my Victorian lady, iv started to do her makeup and hair here, i wanted to give her a really basic look not to much make up just a simple layer of foundation and little lipsick, the ends of her hair that are showing im going to crul them and she will have a net hat on aswell.

Today is the day !!

well today is the day of the photo shoot and im praying it all goes okay the set is all realy now and all the props are in place jkust need to get the modles ready and were all set to start snapping away :)

Lighting test :)

 This is two of my friends from college Sam and Nina, I asked them to mess around in the photography room so i could take some pictuers with the camra i would be using during the photo shoot, just to see how the lighing would work out as i was a little worried that because there is no natral light in the room the pictuers would come out really dark but i turns out they came out fine,  acctually better than fine they were graet, this mean for the photo shoot now i dont need to use all the camra lighting equiptment and with the room having no natrel light it will give the photos more of an older darker look.

                                                    Dont ask what they were doing

Preping the photo shoot

okay so its time to start preping the photo shoot iv finaly got all the cosutmes and props together so i can now set a date and get the ball rolling so exited to get the modles dressed and ready to go.

Learning what i need to know !

Most of the sketchbook work i have uploaded so far is my work relating to my Victorian Photography, it been one of the mose intense books iv done some far purley because of the amount of wrighting in the book the book is roughly 70 pages long and all of it is reaserch work. One main reason for there beeing so much reserch work is because i knew almost noting about fashion and photoraphy from that era, so i was almost teaching myself every thing from that time from how clothing was made to the dying proses and how photo shoots would have been put together hope you enjoy what iv put up so far.

More sketchbook work (FMP)

 

I love the litte water colouers i did of the veges round the edge of this page even if it dad take my dad a few appemts at guessing what the veg in the top corner was, FYI its an onion lol.

This is some vege dying that i did, because i was looking in to fashion i wanted to look at old methord os how to dye fabric, what was popular at the time and how it was done so i choose to do musterd,onion,coffee,tea,carrot and tomato so came out abit dull but the musterd and onion came out great.

this was some artist reasuerch i did in to and old fashion designer called Georges Barbier he was a cotuer fashion designer in the later 1800s. He did alot of costume work for theater and was one a vogues top designers, look him up hes an awsome find http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Barbier

This is groom, its a weadding shop near my home in warrington, i went in and asked then about pieriod costume and were could i get some patterns for a mans wedding suite, they were so helpfull and let me take loads of photos of there shop.

In my photo shoot i want to have some flowers on the table so i looked in to flowers that were popular and to be honest most of them still are. For the shoot in the end i used Sweet Williams and Carnations thay looked beautiful.

need help !!!!

God! i feel like im so busy at the minuet with my finals and uni iv not had a second to stop and work on my blog really neglected it over the past 8 weeks but its okay i have so much stuff now im going to upload.

fmp

The last few pages i posted are of my Final Major Project sketch book for this project i chose to look at victorian photography and fashion this book is one on my best books or so i feel anyway there was so much information that went in to it. when i first started this book i knew nothing about that time period but now im a whizz haha. I have just finished my final photo shoot so im going to upload those when there nearly done and then the final finished product.

sketchbook work

this is my beautiful new uni i will be going, well maybe not to new but definitely beautiful the arts university is split up in to 4 different buildings the top picture is of the main art gallery this is were student and resident artists work is kept the picture blow that is the mail fashion building inside there  are rows and rows of industrial sewing machines and long pattern cutting tables.
The row of shops is the row of shops next to the uni its all so cute and right near the sea side so i know where ill be spending my summers ha ha then the last photograph i were im hoping to be spending my working uni life, i currently work for BHS but im waiting for a store transfer just to give me a bit of extra cash to fund my extravagant student like :)

Ta dah ! this was my final finished shot gun wedding dress the university asked my to mke some thing that i would like so i like dresses and this just sort of happened really do like the final out come it came together really quickly as well which helped as i only had 3 days to do it in :s felt like a headless chicken running round trying to get it finished haha.

Finaly fnished

This was the start of a dress i made for my university interview i so loved the final out come but here are some photos f it half way thought, the body cast of the dress was just made from a thin layer of mod rock but i really wanted to give it a war torn feel so time to get mucky !!

My shot gun wedding

my portfolio

Im going to post a few photographs of my portfolio just to give a vague idea about the work i do other than blow my friends fingers off, i find most of my work iv vintage inspired and i know thats quite cliche to say these days but Im really into pretty old world cloths cloths which is something i never though id say ( seining as i used to be a hard core goth ) but any way enjoy the uploads :)

CLEVELAND HERE I COME !!!!

WOOOOWWWW i finally got in to university after months of gruelling portfolio work iv finally got the place at wanted at my first choice, my interview was fab the man that interviewed me was so friendly and i took it all in my stride although i have a conditional offer iv got the points i need to enter so now just to finnish college and find a place to live because really living on the streets just isn't very becoming for a young lady hehe !!!!

Say Cheese !!

Some of my wonderfull class mates all in there sunday best ready and awaiting the performence to start

This was the beautifully hand painted back drop on the stage comeing up ready for the balett to begine i was so exited, dont think i was ment to be taking to meny photos but i thought hell im only goin to get to do this once.

this is the wonderfull light in Prage opra house it was just epic for lack of a better word i know iv said iv never seen anything like this befor but wow this was just amazing i know love to go back to prague in the summer time when its not so snowey.

These were my wonderful pics from prague i can honestly say iv never had a more magical experience in all my life the one thing i can really clearly remember is the noise the ballet shoes made on the floors the theatre house was so amazing we went to see swan lake the costumes were just fantastic so detailed and elegant enjoy !!