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Cassie Gough: Best Six ImagesCassie Gough: Best Six Images

CASSIE GOUGH: BEST SIX IMAGES

My Photography Journey

I came into this course with minimal studio photography experience, and I am leaving it with more confidence and knowledge, this was helped and influenced a lot by the other students on the course. My photos I have chosen are not following a theme, I chose these because they are the ones that stand out to me when looking back on what I have achieved during this course.  Each week we were suggested a word that we would need to put into picture, a word which would make me question my abilities, but each time I would surprise myself when it came to submitting these photos.

The image of the letters and the book are examples of these, the book I love because it’s taking an everyday object and turning it into something unique and pleasing to the eye, which is something I already enjoyed doing with my photos. The portraits were something I was more hesitant about because I had little experience in this area, and it has been a big learning curve that I wouldn’t change, I did not know that we were going to be photographing ‘Candy’ the drag queen artist until I walked into class that day, but I really enjoyed this experience and Candy was a fantastic model.

The baby photographs, I had limited equipment, but I still managed show how peaceful the little baby was. The final picture of the ‘little balls of light’ are an example of texture lighting, this is by far one of my favourite photographs I have taken throughout the course. I love the warmth it gets across and the split focus fading into the background, which leads the eye throughout. I have enjoyed every frustrating and challenging minute; I have laughed and could of cried but I am pleased and proud that I have come this far and would just like to thank the tutors for putting up with me and seeing me through to the end. 

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Ingrida Einingyte: Best Six ImagesIngrida Einingyte: Best Six Images

INGRIDA EININGYTE: BEST SIX IMAGES

Self-care

I started this project hoping that I could build upon my advertisement skills and possibly apply my soon to be found knowledge to mental health promotion projects at my workplace. This was something I have never done before and had little knowledge about; therefore, I was quite excited to give it a go. When I started to think about my project and themes more in depth, I decided to focus on photographing products with the aim of promoting self-care. This was because I felt inspired after researching some of the work done by product photographers and the idea also aligned well with wanting to promote mental health as self-care has been an extremely important factor in maintaining people’s wellbeing during COVID-19.

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Jenny Collins: Best Six ImagesJenny Collins: Best Six Images

JENNY COLLINS: BEST SIX IMAGES

Nature in Studio

The theme for my project is ‘nature in studio’ with my images capturing flowers in different ways. This is my first time working in a studio, I have enjoyed being able to test out different techniques and find a balance between creating traditionally ‘still life’ images and more creative, arty ones. I took inspiration from looking at the work of photographers such as Harold Davis, which led me to experimenting with transparency techniques. I have also enjoyed developing my Photoshop skills and learning about different post processing techniques.

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Dudley Artsfest is Coming Soon!

This year’s online Artsfest at Dudley College of Technology will go live on Tuesday, 22nd June and will showcase all the incredible work of our creative industries students. Just click the button below to enter the online exhibition on this date and enjoy this video featuring work by our photography students in the meantime.