It’s time to re-energise my blog again, but after my brief attempt at a PAD project earlier in the year, I've decided that I should focus on posting photographic ideas, completed shoots, articles, musings and mutterings, which I hope you'll find inspiring, even if only a little bit.
Whilst I loved the idea of taking and posting a shot every day to stretch my photographic legs, it became impossible to post daily updates with the workload and pressures of my day job, especially over these last two months. But my desire to share, discuss, document my images hasn’t diminished, and in fact there are a number of projects that I am currently working on that I want to post here for comment, input, or perhaps ridicule.
These projects include developing and producing two separate portfolio's for September : one as a 'book' of commercial automotive work, the other much more personal and fine art orientated. Other posts will have a more commercial bias, some will include CGI work, and others will simply be about kit, or post production techniques
There. I've said it ! I've put it out there and quite excited about where 2010 will lead. I know my aims for the year, and I hope that keeping a blog will help keep me on track
Oh, one book you should all be reading right now .... Visionmongers, by David du Chemin. I'm only a couple of chapters in, but it's one inspiring book so far. All about vision, less about taking photos
More on this soon.
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Sunday, 27 December 2009
Tuesday, 26 May 2009
My best friend.
A very quick one. Feeling soppy and wanted to post up a shot from the weekend just gone. I've still had next to no time to take pictures recently (though tonight I did actually take over 100 frames walking around Guildford for the SquareMile Project which you can see on my flickr account).
Not much to say about this shot, other than I had a ball this past weekend with my best mate (and wife!!). Thanks Sheens. xx (oh and if you get time go to the Abinger Hatch - great country pub in Abinger suprisingly. Though they lose track of whose next to be served, so you it could take a while to be served if you're not assertive enough)
Not much to say about this shot, other than I had a ball this past weekend with my best mate (and wife!!). Thanks Sheens. xx (oh and if you get time go to the Abinger Hatch - great country pub in Abinger suprisingly. Though they lose track of whose next to be served, so you it could take a while to be served if you're not assertive enough)
Saturday, 16 May 2009
Night lights.
Not much to say about this, but when I took our dog, Ben, out for a walk earlier I decided to take my little camera for once. I liked the idea of portraying these night lamps at a local school car park as large architectural installations. I don't think I've been 100% successful but can now see how it could be done if I was to re-shoot. Otherwise it makes for a nice simple graphical image with complimentary colours. As a viewer, I know it won't hold my interest for a long time, but as a photographer it's a good thing as it should prompt me to take another photo tomorrow to replace it and considering this was supposed to be a photo a day blog thing.....
Anyway, hopefully another one tomorrow, (don't I always say that ?!)
Thursday, 14 May 2009
I'm back.....!!!
It's been a while - hello again ! And my excuse ? Work - my day job ! I've been working far too hard out at clients studios including alot of evenings, so there has been little time to take photos, let alone post a daily photo blog. I knew this would happen from time to time which is why I never promised to post every day - only as often as I could ! There we go, excuses, excuses !
Still, I have had the camera out a few times and taken a few shots - nothing to write home about, but one or two I feel obliged to post to make up for the last few weeks. Then on top of that, I've been thinking lots....dangerous I know, but these thoughts have manifested themselves into plans which I am currently researching. One biggy, and a few smaller ones. A bit ambiguous, but very very exciting and I now need to put some things into place so these plans can have some chance of happening. Sheens and I are very excited at what could happen, and hopefully I'll share these ideas with you in the next few weeks. I don't want to set myself up, announce to the world and then nothing happen.
The smaller one's I can share, and they include some photoshoots that are being arranged. A group of us are trying a number of things....
1. The Square Mile. A location (co-ordinates) is posted by Andy once a month and the group try to take lots of photos within 1 mile of this location. The idea is then to share these shots, geotag them, so we get a complete eclectic set of shots of that particular area. The first location is central Guildford to keep it simple first of all, but am looking forward to when the location is Peru !
2. A night shoot. A group of us plan to spend a whole night out shooting photos. We all tend to photograph during the day, so this will force ourselves to think differently. I think there is so much you can take of a night, and could imagine it will be lots of fun, and we'll see lots of interesting things. I need to decide a location for this though....
3. A shoot with only our compact cameras in London sometime soon. This will hopefully force us to use our eyes, and take some different shots, relying less on kit, and more on our legs and creativity.
And now without further delay, here's that shot from a few days back. Back on track, doesn't that feel better ! Hopefully another post tomorrow.
Still, I have had the camera out a few times and taken a few shots - nothing to write home about, but one or two I feel obliged to post to make up for the last few weeks. Then on top of that, I've been thinking lots....dangerous I know, but these thoughts have manifested themselves into plans which I am currently researching. One biggy, and a few smaller ones. A bit ambiguous, but very very exciting and I now need to put some things into place so these plans can have some chance of happening. Sheens and I are very excited at what could happen, and hopefully I'll share these ideas with you in the next few weeks. I don't want to set myself up, announce to the world and then nothing happen.
The smaller one's I can share, and they include some photoshoots that are being arranged. A group of us are trying a number of things....
1. The Square Mile. A location (co-ordinates) is posted by Andy once a month and the group try to take lots of photos within 1 mile of this location. The idea is then to share these shots, geotag them, so we get a complete eclectic set of shots of that particular area. The first location is central Guildford to keep it simple first of all, but am looking forward to when the location is Peru !
2. A night shoot. A group of us plan to spend a whole night out shooting photos. We all tend to photograph during the day, so this will force ourselves to think differently. I think there is so much you can take of a night, and could imagine it will be lots of fun, and we'll see lots of interesting things. I need to decide a location for this though....
3. A shoot with only our compact cameras in London sometime soon. This will hopefully force us to use our eyes, and take some different shots, relying less on kit, and more on our legs and creativity.
And now without further delay, here's that shot from a few days back. Back on track, doesn't that feel better ! Hopefully another post tomorrow.
Tuesday, 28 April 2009
I love early mornings....
Okay, so that's a slight exaggeration, and I certainly don't like the idea when my alarm goes off at 5.30 in the morning, but once I'm up and out, the dawn starts are worth it. The birdsong, the peace, the sedate pace at that time of morning is a wonder, and when the atmospheric conditions are working in your favour I'd go as far to say early mornings are unbeatable.
After working really late last night in London, and not getting back home till well past midnight, I saw the fog had descended on our village, and I had the mad brained idea to get up early and head to back to Winkworth to shoot the bluebells in the mist. The idea of flat lighting, damp flowers and mist coming through the trees was so appealing the plan was a go'er.
Even though there was heavy fog when I woke, there was no fog at Winkworth which is only a few miles up the road from me and I had to rely on the mist rising off the lake to create the atmosphere I had envisaged, which meant heading to the lower slopes which were compositionally less favourable. However the sun was in the perfect position and the whole of Winkworth was beautifully lit as usual. I managed a few shots with some sun rays piercing through the mist, but it soon disappeared and the harshness of bright sunlight began to set it in. I was thinking on the way to work afterwards that I should probably get up even earlier to be on location for 5.15, ready for those magical few minutes when the sun first hits the mist.
I had a wonderful time, and hope the shots show this.....
After working really late last night in London, and not getting back home till well past midnight, I saw the fog had descended on our village, and I had the mad brained idea to get up early and head to back to Winkworth to shoot the bluebells in the mist. The idea of flat lighting, damp flowers and mist coming through the trees was so appealing the plan was a go'er.
Even though there was heavy fog when I woke, there was no fog at Winkworth which is only a few miles up the road from me and I had to rely on the mist rising off the lake to create the atmosphere I had envisaged, which meant heading to the lower slopes which were compositionally less favourable. However the sun was in the perfect position and the whole of Winkworth was beautifully lit as usual. I managed a few shots with some sun rays piercing through the mist, but it soon disappeared and the harshness of bright sunlight began to set it in. I was thinking on the way to work afterwards that I should probably get up even earlier to be on location for 5.15, ready for those magical few minutes when the sun first hits the mist.
I had a wonderful time, and hope the shots show this.....
Saturday, 25 April 2009
More from today.... whats happening !
Today is like buses - no blog for a week, then two come along on the same day !
I was so excited about getting behind the camera today in the beautiful afternoon sun, that I just wanted to put up a couple of shots I took. I headed to Winkworth Aboretum, one of my favorite places in the world (!!!) to see the bluebells. And I wasn't dissapointed, being met with carpets of intense purple flowers - What a sight, the best I've seen them for years. So as I'm a bit tired, here are a few shots. One point to note is that I'm trying to break some rules, and do something a bit different - I tried today with limited sucess, but really love the light in the last shot. I'll explain later why it breaks the rules for me.
I was so excited about getting behind the camera today in the beautiful afternoon sun, that I just wanted to put up a couple of shots I took. I headed to Winkworth Aboretum, one of my favorite places in the world (!!!) to see the bluebells. And I wasn't dissapointed, being met with carpets of intense purple flowers - What a sight, the best I've seen them for years. So as I'm a bit tired, here are a few shots. One point to note is that I'm trying to break some rules, and do something a bit different - I tried today with limited sucess, but really love the light in the last shot. I'll explain later why it breaks the rules for me.
A bit of a catch up
I've been a bit busy this last month and my PAD has suffered, but it's only the last 5 days that I haven't actually taken any photos. I thought that working in London this week (not usual for me) it would be easy to see and take interesting photos, especially as I've been based in a client's Covent Garden office, but I've had my head down on the commute, rushing around to get into the office and home again. I managed to take one yesterday morning at Charing Cross station where all the tiles on the underpass created a messy but very geometric composition, enhanced by the aperture in the wall looking through to the stairwell.
And now a quick note to mention two other things....
My website is up and running at www.mark-pritchard.com where I will be putting my best shots up, and it will be more commercially based than my flickr photostream / this PAD blog.
And perhaps more exciting for me, is that one of my shots [link here] was published this week in the May edition of Surrey Life magazine [link here]. My tenth photo publications, so lets hope I can continue this !
And now a quick note to mention two other things....
My website is up and running at www.mark-pritchard.com where I will be putting my best shots up, and it will be more commercially based than my flickr photostream / this PAD blog.
And perhaps more exciting for me, is that one of my shots [link here] was published this week in the May edition of Surrey Life magazine [link here]. My tenth photo publications, so lets hope I can continue this !
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