Modelling

For those of you who know me you will know I've done a little modelling for friends in the past and went to London for a shoot which was amazing. I also applied for Tyne Tees Models but wasn't that successful which made me give up modelling for a while but i have been asked by a photographer to come in a model for them as they think i look great in front of the camera so now that i have changed my look (hair cut) i think i feel more confident in myself to get back in front of the camera and get new images.

Who knows i might apply for Tyne Tees again and be successful one can dream can't they?!

It's going to be weird being in front of the camera after so long being behind it but it should be fun.

Portfolio Project

So this week i started sorting out my new project which is about getting images together for my portfolio. I have looked at my old shoots and picked a few images i would like to include in my portfolio.

Last week i shot a shoot to go towards my portfolio so please find attached firstly a few images i want to include and secondly a few images from my recent shoot:

 (Above Possible Images for portfolio

Below Images from recent shoot)

Lara Jade

I've followed Lara for a few year now as i find her work amazing. Not only did she come from over here she is now massive and lives/works in one of the biggest cities in the world New York.

I recently sent her an email to ask about how she started out and for any tips and with her being so busy the only thing she could do was send me a reply with some links to a few interviews she has done. Getting a response even as little as that is amazing and for her to take te time to send the email was a shock in itself.

She also recently posted on Facebook a few helpful tips and magazines to try and get work published so i shall be giving that a try and blogging it very soon.

Traver Rains

I've recently discovered a new photographer who i actually love and admire the work of. I came about this person through instagram after a celebrity uploaded a photo of her new clothing range and tagged him in the picture. I decided to google him and it turns out he is a fashion designer turned photographer.

His work is very similar to Terry Richardsons which is probably why i adore it. It is so simple yet so elegant and i found out he took the photo of Aubrey O'Day which i tried to recreate (as spoke about in a previous post)

His name is Traver Rains so go check him out.

The Army Girl

I had the pleasure of photographing one of my friends who is currently in the army so for her to come in and let me get a few images of hr while she was on leave was amazing and such a great opportunity to ask her about her life. I already knew she had a very fashionable lifestyle in comparison to her army lifestyle this led me to photograph her with inspiration from a musical and TV icon Ariana Grande. I decided to use her as inspiration for the shoot because she is very beautiful and fashionable like Lauren and for some reason she reminds me of her the main image for inspiration was the one below for her Seventeen Magazine cover shoot;

This image inspired me because it is fun and girly which is what i wanted to show in my photos of Lauren because yes she's in the army which is seen as a masculine job but she has this very girly side to her. Check out my image below to also see more from the shoot make sure to check out; www.facebook.com/scottgibbonphotography

Miley Cyrus

I am such a huge fan of Miley Cyrus regardless of her transition from teen star to young adult i think she is flawless and below are some photos that i think are beyond stunning and inspirational;

Unseen shoot

I was going through my laptop a few days back and came upon a shoot that i enjoyed doing with a great model but totally forgot to upload it so after uploading the images to Facebook I've eventually got around to putting them on here so take a look and enjoy.

Fitness Shoot

So just before Christmas i got the opportunity to attempt my first ever fitness photoshoot. This was something i had never done before but i am always willing to give everything a try once. I got help off my tutors with how i would go about with setting the lighting up to help show off the main areas in a fitness shoot this being the muscle.

The model who wanted the images was great to photograph they were genuine and down to earth so it made the shoot much easier to go about.

For it being my first attempt i believe the shoot went well check out some of the images below;

Terry Richardson

So recently i have been busy writing an essay on a photographer that inspires me for this i decided to choose Terry Richardson as he has been in the news recently because the controversy with Miley Cyrus and her video and images which he directed and took. I also chose him as i love his work but i have never really known a lot about his personal life etc. So after doing research i learnt he is actually quite a strange but simple man when it comes to photography. He is strange in the sense he makes every image provocative but simple as in he uses plain backgrounds instead of all these fancy backdrops like most photographers. 

To go along with the essay i had to recreate an image in the style of his below is the image i chose to recreate:

I recreated this image as i found it one of his most eye catching and different images as it isn't provocative but it stands out among the rest because of the use of hand gestures.

Below is my recreation of this image:

As you can see the image is similar but different i wanted to recreate it but not entirely copy his image this is why i decided to shoot my image landscape and crop it close to the models upper half.

Anita Corbin

A few weeks ago we had the pleasure to have a talk from a well known portrait photographer known as Anita Corbin. It was great being able to understand how she goes about her shoots and what inspires hers and how she started out and branched out into this well respected photographer that she is.

She talked to us about her most recent project which is all about the first women to ever do things such as race in the grand national or play at a gold club. It was amazing to see that she can take such a simple thing and make it into a huge project which not only has her being recognized over in the UK but is being shown all over the world even in the USA.

Before finishing her talk she set us a project to take an image of someone inspirational who we know or works in the community, I decided to use my grandma as not only has she had cancer three times and beating it but she is now living with one and  half lung and still carries on her normal day to day activities. You can see the image below:

Past Work

In the past i have completed a variety of projects so thought i would base this post around showing off some of my older bits of work:

The image above is one of the first ever images i took on location and still to this day it is one of my all time favorite images that i have taking.

The image above was taking during a mini Halloween project during my foundation diploma course. The reason i love this photo is the atmosphere it creates.

The image above is more recent to the over two as this was taking for the shoe project which was giving last year.

The final image is an image taking for my first project for my first year of my degree it was called the hat project i loved this image as it shows the hat subtly.

Life In Living Color

So last night i had the pleasure of conversing with a photographer from down London who's work i have been following for a few months now. I admire his work because he uses more natural light than controlled light but his images have such an amazing feel to them. During the conversation he invited me to do a collaboration with him if i'm ever down London and also asked if he could steal some of the models i had used in some of my personal work to which i happily agreed to get in contact with for him. He also has a calendar coming out for next year and stated he has a huge project coming up next year so keep your eye peeled for more from him.

It was great to talk to someone else and get tips from him about using male models as he finds it easier to use males than females whereas i'm the opposite so it was nice to get tips from him.

Feel free to check out his website he has some amazing images;

http://www.lifeinlivingcolor.com/

Starting a Portfolio

So last week i had the pleasure to take the first photographs of a young boy looking to start is portfolio. It was such a big thing for me to be the first photographer to take images for this person as to me it meant that any other person getting in contact with the boy will see my images. The shoot went great and with him just being 16 his mam was invited along to the shoot to make sure everything was legit and they both had such a great time and gave me so much praise for the finished shots. Take a look below at some of the shots from the shoot and feel free to see the rest by clicking the link provided;

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Between Two Evils

So this week i have eventually completed one of the photo shoots i have been dying to do since the start of this year. It all began when i was on twitter and a singer, Aubrey O'Day, who i like posted a photo of an image taking from the artwork for her debut album. This image embedded itself in my head for days, weeks, months even as it stood out compared to all the other album artworks being shown around that time. So after many months of trying and trying i finally found a model willing to give it a go and i must say it was a huge success the images turned out great and some people have commented saying they're similar or even better than the original. So please take a look at the image that inspired me and then one of my final images:

Aubrey O'Day (Original Image)

Outcome (My Image)

Mark Taylor Visit

On Tuesday 12th November we had the pleasure of visiting Mark Taylor at his studio.

He sat us down and spoke about how he started out at Newcastle College and how he began his journey to break out in the industry all through doing assistance work with photographers. He also showed us his portfolio and explained why he shot each image, why they made it into his portfolio and how he lit and shot the image.

The visit was great as it helped me to understand the industry a little more and showed me that to get noticed it is best if you work at all areas unless wanting to specialize in one are then a move to London would be the bets idea.

Shadow Of A Doubt

So i was browsing the internet today and came across a set of images based around the film Shadow Of A Doubt for complex magazine. I came across the images as they feature the singer/actress Ariana Grande who i like to keep up to date with as i'm a big fan of hers and they are absolutely stunning. The best thing about it is that for a project last year i had to work in a group and produce a film still from a Hitchcock film and i got giving that exact same film.

It's funny to compare the images to each other as it shows what i could potentially achieve in the future as i believe my images worked just as strongly as the ones featured in the magazine even though my group didn't have the make up artist and stylist like the shoot for Ariana would have.

Take a look at my groups images below:

And the complex images shot by Gavin Bond:

First Post

So I've decided to create a blog to keep everyone up to date with what is going on with my University work and my own personal photography work. I will try to update this blog each week with images of past and present images as well as information on projects, shoots, how they went, how i managed my time, my strengths and weaknesses, images that inspire me as well as the photographer if known and tips and helpful information for people thinking of trying out photography.

I know this post is a bit blergh but i guess i have to give a basic overview post but now that is out the way please feel free to keep checking my blog and keeping up with what i'm doing.

Thanks

Scott