My cheap still life studio

Today I just got a new window for my room, it used to be split in two pieces but now we put a new one in and now I have this good window with a lot of light. Today we harvested some vegetables and there was this big cabbage that I wanted to photograph some parts of. So i decided to make a small still life studio on my desk. Today I only took few shots but i will definitely do this again.


here is both a post of the set up as well as the outcome. I did not use a tripod because I have not been able to buy a batter one that I can put the camera directly above the subject. 

My first exhibition

Well, I have finally managed to scan the photos from my exhibition since last April. I just uploaded them to my flickr, they will go to the webpage soon.

The theme for this exhibition is the streets in March. I used only film in this project and I shot it with my Olympus OM2 with Ilford HP5 at iso 400. I wanted to show the coldness of March. I also enlarged the photos in an agfa enlarger on Ilford paper.

I have for a while wanted to try something like this, photographing the street by film and specially when its snowing. I just love the way the snow is on the photos, it makes them look a bit grainier  and more street.

I just want to make it clear that photoshop was not used in any of the photos and the frame around the photos is the film frame so they have not been cropped at all.

Back in Iceland

Well I'm back in Iceland. I didn't Blog as much as I was going to but I posted some photos to my flickr. While I was in Thailand I traveled a bit. I went to the island Kho Lan, its close to Pattaya. I have only posted few photos from that trip but I'm still working on going through them.

But the first thing I did when I came there was to buy a new camera. I got Nikon D700 and wow how my life has changed. The photo below is borrowed from http://www.kenrockwell.com just until I have photographed mine but I mainly use 50mm 1.8 until I get another prime lens. This is such a huge step from my old D80.

I stayed few days in Bangkok but then in end of may I went to a town called Khon Kaen, that's where my fiance is studding. I brought my camera almost everywhere and I took a lot of photos. I made some portraits, landscape, among other things. While I was there I learned a lot how to use my flash in different situations and I used it more than I had before.

I went to Bangkok in July to take photos in my sisters - in - law's graduation but I shot many other things as well while she was in some ceremony because only students allowed during the ceremony.

I shot a lot of film as well but I'm still working on developing them and now I'm working on buying an enlarger so hopefully I can post more film here this winter.

Final project

Well now I have finally finished school and I'm going to Thailand after one and half a day so a lot to do until then.

For my final project I made a "post apocalyptic photo essay". It is a photo essay about the same character as from the post apocalyptic photo I made in November last year and I will include that photo in it as well. I really liked doing this project but I want to do something more with this theme. The first photo shows him sleeping outside, cause he didn't find a shelter for the night. The second photo show's him hunting a rabbit to eat, it is a way to show that he has to hunt his food. The third one he is looking for shelter, I know it's a bit dark but I have not been able to post it online in its correct colors. The forth photo shows him cooking his rabbit dinner.

I had an exhibition from 15th of April to 10th of Mai, I took the photos in March while there was a lot of snow. The exhibition was in my school, I decided to have it there cause there are a lot of people that walk the hallways there every day and I picked the one with the most traffic. I will post photos later.

5 days of school left

Well now the easter holidays is about to finish but there are only 5 days left of school so there are many things left to do. I'm currently working on my final project and it is a photo essay about a man living in a post-apocalyptic world. I have already photographed almost all the photos I need and I have made sketches for everything, but there is a lot of photoshop work left. I took photos of the model in the studio at my school and I'm creating the surroundings from scratch. Now I have not blogged for for to long so there are several projects that I have to post.

Movement.

This project was about photographing movement in several forms, that includes, panning, zooming, 2sync, freezing and moving object. My theme was traffic just after a rainy day. I enjoyed this project, specially the 2sync, it came out exactly as I planed and I will definitely do more 2sync. I would have liked to do the zoom bater but it was the best I got by the time I had to turn it in.

80 minutes around the world.

This was an exercise in photoshop that we had to make before we did the manipulation I posted this on my flickr a bit after I did the manipulation because it was just an exercise and we had to use a background photo from someone else. I got the photo from commons.wikimedia.org so I didn't take it without permission. I wanted to make it look more realistic so I brought my traveling trousers and my old film camera that I often use on my travels.

Jewelry.

In this project we were paired with a first year student from the jewelry major. It was an interesting project we had to come up with an idea, it could either be all the same theme or separated themes. I decided not to use the same theme for all the photos but just use what I like for each piece. The photo with the two rings I got a lot of help from my classmate Þórdís and by the way its my wool sweater in the background, I think it looks so good as a background.

Hair.

In this project we worked with students from the hairdressers major. I worked with a girl called Kristín Kristmundsdóttir. I got the idea of this shot from a paper about hair styles, first I was going to do a more poses but I was put first in line and I was given not so long time for this shot because others were waiting. I hope I can do something like this again so I can practice more and hopefully then I can take as much time as I need.

Food.

This is a project that I just loved, the model was perfect and yummy since it was noodle soup. I really enjoy taking photos of food and I'm definitely going to do more of this. I'm thinking of taking photos of Thai dishes when I go to Thailand, but then I will just use natural light because that's just enough for photographing food but I will use a reflector as well. Well enough about that, here I used only the lamp on the studio light with a big soft-box on the studio light and some natural light as well.

Well this is all for now I will post the rest of my works later.

Surviving in a post apocalyptic world 2

Now I have finally made another photo in this series and I am thinking of what more I can do. I want to make at least 5 or even 7 in total. This one took me a lot of time and when I made the first one and this was my original idea but I didn't find a good place to take the main photo but then I was in a book store the other day and looked out a very small window and there it was the photo I was looking for. The photo of the man I took last year. I am happy with this photo but it seem like that some browser make it to dark so its best to see it in google chrome.

I have a webpage

I have been making a webpage and its finally online the domain is www.pammyphoto.com and I put it on the top of the sidebar so its easier to go to it from this page. The blog link is connected to this page so I will still be updating it hopefully more often in the future.

It is still in development but I'm almost ready with the main layout just have to ad several things to improve it. I have made a photo gallery that I'm trying to update and put most of the photos I am satisfied with.

I also put some ads on the blog so I could hopefully earn enough to pay for the domain and to improve my webpage with some things.

until next time