Yorkshire competiton take two

I have taken and selected my images for the competition and i am quite pleased with them however i feel i could have achieved more with the brief if i had know Yorkshire better and had had a little more time.

This image i chose for my hospitality picture, i chose this image because i think the high street sums up the people of Leeds pretty well, having not been here long i don't really know much about the general hospitality of Yorkshire but if there was a place to get an idea of it, i think Leeds high street would be it. I wanted an image the people staying in the hotel could relate to, could recognise as Leeds and visit whilst they themselves were in Leeds. I chose black and white because i thought it was more atmospheric

This image i chose o b or my icons of Leeds because it is an image of the most iconic building  in Leeds the city hall, but it is an lesser known aspect of the building. This sculpture/frieze is found just by the main entrance of the doorway to the city hall. I didn't notice it at first, but when i saw it i was amazed by the detail of the sculpture. I wanted to experiment with viewpoints and so i tried this angle and i think it worked. My only concern with this image is that when blown up, the orginal detail may lack and the image would no be as effective.

This image was for the wild yorkshire. With this image i tried to play on the word "wild" because when i was photographing this tree from this angle i noticed how the branches sprawled ouy everywhere and tangled and i thought the tree itself looked very wild and therefore i decided to enter this photo for this category.
  With my images i said in my previous blogg that i wanted to use the simple and make them my own i think i have done this, however with more time i think i could have improved the quality of my images.

Hotel Competition

All photography students are Leeds College of Art have entered a competition that involves taking photographs for a hotel situated in Leeds, if the student wins, they recieve a weekend away free of charges some where in Europe.
    To win f us much submit three photos for certain areas of the hotel that reflect different parts of Yorkshire and Leeds. One must be for the corridor of the hotel and it must depict the people and hospitality of leeds, the second is for the rooms and must be of an iconic land mark of leeds and the third is for the suites of the hotel and must be of the yorkshire countryside and wild life.
   With images i want to keep the whole thing quite basic as the images if won, would possibly be repeated several times within the hotel and therefore if too complicated could be overwhelming. I want to photograph the obvious subjects but in a unique and obscure way. This way i think that images will reflect Leeds in a traditional way but will still be innovative. At the same time i don't want the pictures to be to dull and flat so i think i will experiment with angles and view points.

Donovan Wylie and Daniel Meadows

Also showing their work at the festival were Donovan Wylie and Daniel Meadows. Wylies work concentrated on landscape, observation and control, he grew up in Belfast and ever since has been interested in military structure. For this exhibition he photographed in Afghanistan

and the images are really quite moving and emotional and yet at the same time very masculine and strong. The presntation of the show really worked, it was a very sterile white room, no distractions and reflected the images well.
   The last room i went to was where Daniel Meadows work was being held. His collections were all in the same room including "The real Corenation Street" and "The bus", the collections i think really worked well together all in the same room, they bounce off each other and show the photgraphers interests.

Bradford photography festival

I have previously blogged about going to the Bradford photography festival and today i made it to Bradford. I blogged previously about wanting to see Red Saunders work. Red Saunders is a political activist and a commercial photographer who took the festivals theme "evidence" and related it to the past. He chose events in time that are not as well know such as the chartists of 1842. The people of the past Red chose to depict appear to be lesser known hero's of their time and also quite rebellious characters which is fitting as the photographer himself is quite a rebel! The photos themselves were very impressive, dramatic, bold and with great atmospheric chiaroscuro lighting, really good stage scenes. I personally am really interested in history paintings and therefore i loved the references to paintings within the pictures. However the way the picture were presented was a little disappointing for me. They shown loose, not framed, able to see the folds in the paper.This was done apparently to prevent the photos having hierarchy over the viewer as that would have contradicted the messages of the images. However i thought it looked a little unfinished this way and took away some of the awe that could have been in the image. This image "William Cuffrey and the London  Chartists" 1842 is my favourite of all of the images as it has an amazing story behind it and the composoition is just perfect and looks like a still from a film set!

Robert Winstons personality questionnaire

In our first pppl lecture this year we were looking at what type of person we are and what we would be like to work with. Bridget March our lecturer made us do several tests to discover what type of person we are, the most interesting one was the Myers and Briggs theory which questions you on whether you are a introvert or extrovert type of person. To discover this we also looked at sensing and intuition, thinking and feeling and judging and perceiving. For each section there was a type of feeling or emotion that most suited you, u write down this emotions letter and when you finished the questionnaire you had a row of four letters, these four letters reflect your personality. My our letters were esfp which means i am a performer and live life for the moment apparently! Since then we have been asked to do the Robert Winston personality questionnaire found on the bbc website. You have to answer 73 questions all quite random, mine resulted in me being a people person, which is true i like to be around people, quite agreeable to  get on with as i am bad at arguing which again is probably true, but it also said i was very organised and always on time, which i would like to think is true however this is not the case!