CharlotteRose

Moving Home….

Hey guys, i’m still using this blog but i’ve put all my photography work onto another blog

http://charlotterosephotography.wordpress.com 

See you there! 

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I think i’ve got it!

After spending a long summer thinking am i ever going to get a career out of this…well i think i am

Sinse i’ve been back i’ve found work placement with a photographer, i’ve had clients asking me to take photographs for them I’m finally getting the hang on studio lighting

I’ve been using the phase 1 camera in the studio and i think i’ve fallen in love with it!

My whole attitude has changed! I’m more confident, happy and upbeat

I’ll now be making regular posts to show you guys what i’m up to!

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Still struggling

Now that our live project has been handed in, i can now concentrate on mywork placement, although having said that, i’m still finding it bloody hard to get work placement, i’ve contacted a magazine who I actually used to work for before uni to see if they wanted any photography work, but i’m still waiting to hear from them.

So i could still be looking this time next year for work placement, when in actual fct i’ll be needing a job!

If finding a few weeks work placement is hard, i don’t even want to start looking for a job!

Just when I began to lose hope.

I was saying not long ago that I really didn’t know what I wanted to do after uni, and then I realised after the workshops that I really love photography. 

Then it came around to looking for work placements, and there was and still is nothing out there for me, people don’t want students running around following them, they say they want this experience and that experience, how can I get it if you don’t want us?!?!

I was in the flash photography group and was talking to stephanie Leak in 3rd year, and I was drowning in my sorrows whilst talking to her aying that I can’t get any work placements

“Come and help me!, I’ll give you a placement!’

So I went along and helped her with a photoshoot, and it was SO helpful!

Don’t get me wrong, I wasn’t playing a big part in it or anything,I just helped with setting up, help prepare outfits, cleaned shoes, helped to do a small amount of styling. 

Just being in that studio, seeing how it all works, really helped me gain alittle bit more confidence.

Thanks Steph.

Flash documentary photography Pt 2

The second time round was even more useful than the 1st, we went to the park and got asked how to solve different scenarios with the sun.

We had to move the flashes to where to sun wasn’t to make up no lighting.

This got easier as I experiemented.

Seeing as I brought myself a new camera over the holidays I thought that it was the best opportunity to go out and play with it and get used to it. 

Tom was very helpful and he taught me alot.

Flash documentary photography Pt 2

The second time round was even more useful than the 1st, we went to the park and got asked how to solve different scenarios with the sun.

We had to move the flashes to where to sun wasn’t to make up no lighting.

This got easier as I experiemented.

Seeing as I brought myself a new camera over the holidays I thought that it was the best opportunity to go out and play with it and get used to it. 

Tom was very helpful and he taught me alot.

Flash documentary photography Pt 1

Well, when I turned up for this workshop I though…. ‘Oh my god! Why the hell am I here?’

Because, the night before I was sitting in my room panicing about my life! I really didn’t know what I wanted to do for work placement, or even after uni. As I have this huge pasion for photography, I thought I may aswell go to see if it’ll help me!

The other people who were on it seemed to know alot about flash, and I just wanted to run away to be honest!

But as the morning progressed, I started getting the hang of it. Then realised that I really do enjoy photography. So this induction gave me a huge boost in what I want to do!

So I can home, e-mailed a few photographers around the area where I live….still waiting for replies

But i’m not gonna give up. Tom Bing (the guy who helped us with the workshop) Said that he waited ages for replies, and that he sent over 100 e-mails a day, and also that it was the hardest thing he had to do!

So I will persevere!

I will be taking some speed flashes out soon!

So let’s hope I learnt something.

Feeling lost

Well…I’ve seen what other people are doing for this live brief and i’m like …’Wow..thats so much better than what I’m doing’ …Don’t get me wrong I love what I’m going to do for this live brief.

But…I just have no ide what I want to do after uni, which is why i’m finding the work placement for PPD really difficult. I love photography, but I just feel like I don’t do enough of it and that I won’t be good for anywhere! I feel like I don’t have my certain style of work and that i’ll be useless after uni.

Everyone on the course seems to be getting their names out there, entering competitions n I’m just doing the work set for the brief and then working at Nando’s

With the essay for critical studies too, it feels like it’s in the way of me doing anything I want to do, which is then making me feel unmotivated to do any other work. 

*sigh*

What do I do?

I need serious help!

Time managment

I’m usually a well organised person

but with the Business and Enterprise pulling every living cell out of my body, i’d been working on that for 5days solid, not being able to do any of this Live brief

Now that it’s over, (THANK GOD) I can feel my life being restored, but all i can think of now is critical studies!

I hate writing essays, so i’m trying my hardest to get it all done early, as i really want to get into my Live brief

I had my tutorial with David, which in actual fact was quite helpful!

I was struggling with where i was goin with the project, as i have set myself quite a task, and he just said get on with it, experiment, and see what happens, then we can think of a Live Brief at a later date!

So I came away feeling quite happy and wanting to go home to get on with it

but…Noooooo…critical studies is killing me!

Why can’t it be handed in after Easter?

Time managment

I’m usually a well organised person

but with the Business and Enterprise pulling every living cell out of my body, i’d been working on that for 5days solid, not being able to do any of this Live brief

Now that it’s over, (THANK GOD) I can feel my life being restored, but all i can think of now is critical studies!

I hate writing essays, so i’m trying my hardest to get it all done early, as i really want to get into my Live brief

I had my tutorial with David, which in actual fact was quite helpful!

I was struggling with where i was goin with the project, as i have set myself quite a task, and he just said get on with it, experiment, and see what happens, then we can think of a Live Brief at a later date!

So I came away feeling quite happy and wanting to go home to get on with it

but…Noooooo…critical studies is killing me!

Why can’t it be handed in after Easter?