Work experience

Mother Come Home

For work experience I am working at Special effect makeup technician for the grad film 'Mother Come Home'  I am also photographing the make up and sfx. I was hired after I photographed myself and the friends I did the make up for Halloween. This is the make up I have done so far.

These are various things that I have done on set and what I have been hired to do, I will be taking more photographs but the only time I have been on set was for the test shoot so that was for makeup and lighting. When we get onto set I will be taking more and when I need to  test makeup. 

Professional futures

In second year for professional futures I emailed a photographer that I was really interested in and had been for years, i was surprised to get a response but sadly he could only be reached the week after the hand in.

I stayed in contact with him and interviewed him anyway as it was a once in a lifetime opportunity to talk to someone that was on of the main reason I has such an interest in camera-less photography. i couple of weeks ago he emailed and mentioned that we has holding a talk at the V&A and asked if i would be interested in going. I went along and was able to listen to him talk about fin art photography which is one of the main genres of photography I am interested in. 

Some info as to what the talk was about. 

Thinking about what i want to do after university I realised my interest in fine art photography is one this that not only am I confident in but I enjoy doing. I am looking into ways to work in this genre (even if that is mainly entering competitions). I am still interested in archiving and curating but fine art photography is my main goal. 

Website

I updated my portfolio, I made myself a website on Wix. it was quite easy to do once I got the hang of it. In it i have included film, portraits, street and nature photography.

I have used different ways of laying them out as some images are bigger than others and look better when in a slide show. The main page is just a collection of all the images (ones that I feel show my better skilled edits or strong images on their own)

http://franjackson.wix.com/jacksonphotography

Contests

I aim to enter 5 contests, 3 with a prize and 2 for exposure. I found a site that lists individual contests in an array of themes, from architecture to photos of the year. Most of these are free and you have to sign up but it does not take more than 20 minutes to create a profile (or you can sign in with Facebook)

https://www.photocontestinsider.com/ 

http://www.viewbug.com/ <<entered 2 today.

Some of the competitions have prizes such as camera bodies and some up to £3000. I have already entered 2 today and one has a grand prize of £3000.

Updating cv

Updated my cv to include more work experience, will add the lighting workshop as I worked as art director for the shoot.

new cv

I will also update my portfolio images and the images on my cv.

lighting workshop

For the lighting workshop myself, Tanya, Becky and Josie met up a couple of days before the shoot to spin different idea's off of one another and we all came to the idea of making the set centre around what looked like a house party. We would use balloons, streamers, empty bottles of drinks and make the place look lived in an messy.

This is the mood board that we created.

We wanted the shoot to be vibrant and full of life, with this we used the gel lights to create a strong background. Josie, Becky and Emily were the main people that shot for this shoot and Maddie was the main model. I mainly dressed the set and directed throughout although we did change rolls throughout. 

These are some of the edits I have done on a few of my favourites.

I like the images where she looks more relaxed and is an onlooker, it is a nice juxtaposition with the lively set. 

As a group we have said that we will be doing more shoots with one another as we worked well and it was a fun experience as I do not normally use the studio.