"The Heist"

This is one of my most favourite pieces of work so far! Yay!I decided to set out on a little walk as the light was pretty, and that is a rare thing in the crappness of english "summer" lol. I got some odd looks whilst taking this. The vicar and co were preparing for a wedding and I was darting around in my skimpy little dress clutching a tripod to my chest!

Yet again, another self p, I know, you're getting bored! Sorry! But don't worry, I have some graffiti work from London that will be up again soon. This is a mulit exposure shot, the layers of which were all fused together on Flickr. I neatend it all up using the cloning and eraser tools.

"All Strung up"

A less innocent self portrait. lol. I kind of wanted to reach into my feelings. I am constantly striving to do my best and reach out desperately for my aspiration, but sometimes I am my own worst obstacle. I constantly question if I am good enough, if I will ever really make it. I guess we've all been there.Also, I'm sorry for the recent obsession with self p's guys, i'm just really trying to get better at them. I really feel i'm not a photogenic person, so thought i could have a go taming the beast.Anyway, yeah, another really fun shoot. I have the house to myself, (thank god) so I secretly nicked my dad's duck tape. He would actually string me up himself if he found out.

This photograph was made using 3 layers, and two block shapes for the border. I used photoshop elements to blend the layers together. I chose to magnetically crop around my body and add an old, water stained texture to my bedroom wallpaper to make picture look more gory. I also flipped the photo upside down to create a more surreal, interesting feel.

Lady of the Lava Lamp

Yet another of my hectic shoots. i broke my lava lamp trying to get out my tripod :-( but the light base proved a handy prop! AND, my fluro pink eye shadow is refusing to come off, so my driving instructor is in for a bit of a shock.

The image was taken in my room, again, and the inspiration was a shoot in Vogue called 'College Girl'. I loved the clashing colours and the busyness of the photographs feautured and wanted to try and recreate this in a self portrait. Please exscuse the new obsession with self p's, I feel it's my weakest area, so trying to improve :-)

I used a lot of props, including the lava lamp base, a photo of the barcelona cathedral in the background, huge shiny glasses and countless pieces of jewellery.

In editing I decided to use a white border to create a polaroid type image, and also added an aging effect.

Giant Man's Cast

Here is another snap from my holidays, this is from the Gaudi cathedral in Barcelona. I really loved the clash between modern building facilities such as scaffolding and the gorgeous gothic architecture. Everything was so strange and beautiful!

I love the lighting in this picture, I chose to overlay an over exposed image of a stained glass window to create the coloured light shafts (left centre).

I also love the busyness and cramped feel of the photograph. There is so much going on, and so many layers!

Drapery

A self portrait of myself in my room. I did this using my canon Dig SLR, a tripod and two lighting units (nothing posh just lamps pointing in my direction).

In editing I chose to crop the images to focus on smaller details, and add a sepia finish. I also used a vignette effect, and decided to create the montage with the two pictures to make the image more interesting.

I am pretty pleased with the overall image, I like the vintage style. I really enjoyed the shoot process too! At this point I had a gammy leg after an operation, and picked the wobbliest stool possible. I kept falling off and my kitten kept jumping on me, so all in all, it was quite a laugh.