HND Photography Student

A weblog following my progression towards HND Photography in 2005 & 2006

Monday, February 27, 2006

Unit 12 - brainstorming


I'd been nurturing a plan to use the detourned logo opposite for some time now. Anti-globalisation activists had used it ever since the Seattle WTO and Starbucks-trashing that took place. But I've known about the messed-up logo for at least 10 years when Big Brother skateboard magazine featured it as a T-Shirt. So my ideas for this brief seemed like a convenient place to use it. Unit 12 is about advertising photography, specifically food. As I explained some time ago, we have to produce images to be used in a magazine advert with a specific pitch at a particular audience.

So I have 2 bugbears: Starbucks and Fair Trade. With the former, it's their stance vis-a-vis globalisation, labour relations, union-busting etc etc. With the latter, it's the idea that capitalism can be tidied up and made acceptable and 'fair'.

So I have a Starbucks mug that ... um, 'fell off the back of a lorry', so that's ripe for being messed with. But I do need location shots as well as studio shots.

As to how I can twist this idea to be a critique of both Globalisation and Fair Trade - I think that will be tough.

Thursday, February 16, 2006

Unit 17 - final location images

Here they are, in order:











The set appears on Flickr here, and I'll be posting more images to this as and when I get the time.

Wednesday, February 15, 2006

Unit 17 - choosing final location images

Progress: our missing tutor has returned, and it's amazing how quickly things return to normal. All the equipment working, colour processing back online etc, etc. But this whole thing has left me sour - trying to get an answer out of the powers that be about exactly what the hell has been going on has been as easy as getting a straight answer from a spin doctor. Expect future posts...

But the long-awaited return of colour processing has allowed me to complete Contact Sheets for the colour Negs, and tonight, with the assistance of a tutor, I have set about choosing the final images to print (as it turns out, 80% of them are from 2 films). It's clear that this is a very important part of the whole image-making process - just looking to see how different images work together, and where they are best suited in a sequence.

So I now have to get down to printing them out. When I get chance to scan them, I will post the final images here as well as a link to the set on Flickr.