Shoot 5: Model 8; Steff

I was lucky enough to get Steff into a studio session at the same time as Matt, which turned out highly successful. Steff brought two items with her, the first a teddy bear which I do not know the full story behind and the second a letter, which she carries everywhere in her purse, from a friend who passed away shortly after writing the letter. Whilst we had some fun shooting the images with the teddy in, I particularly wanted to get a really good image of the letter, knowing its importance to Steff.

I am particularly pleased with how the image with the letter turned out, capturing a personal moment, looking over the shoulder and onto the letter, drawing all attention exactly where it needs to be. Even though the letter itself is in focus I did not want to go too close to it, wanting not to intrude that far into something that means so much to someone.

Whilst I also like the other images, the letter has to be by far my favourite of this shoot and of all my images that I have taken so far for this project. I can only hope that the next photoshoots get such positive results.

Images taken on the Hasselblad 503CW, digital back.

A Bit of Self-Promotion

So today, after much faffing around with images and having to upload and re-upload images because of silly mistakes, I have sent away for some business cards, eek! I shall admit, this was partly to do with the self-promotion project which we have, but its best to get the ball rolling really isn't it?

Unfortunately, my project needs to be handed in on monday 16th, which hasnt left me much time to get them ordered and dispatched - mostly my fault I shall admit here, and so I had to go through "rushed printing" to ensure that the cards would arrive in time. The standard printing and delivery times estimated that my business cards would arrive on the monday... cutting it a little too close for my liking. And that would be assuming that they are accurate with their timings.

I was reccommended to use www.moo.com (a name which I did find quite entertaining) to order my business cards due to the ease of being able to use their website and I must admit, I did find it very easy to use and navigate around. The only downside I will say, is that I found that I couldn't go back and take one of my uploaded images back off, however it is late and i am sleepy so that could well have been an error on my part.

Having realised that I had made a silly mistake with the images, I had to re-do the process, however with Moo's simpleness it did not take up too much extra time and I was able to order the cards so that they should hopefully arrive on thursday and in plenty of time.

Here's a couple of images I used on my cards, with the text that then went on the other side of them:

Self-Promotional Video

Here is a video I made of my book which I created as part of my specialisms project at college, 'Around The Corner' by Sarah Anderson: