© Hayley Salmon On Thursday, 11th December 2014 my new baby cousin, Aimee, made her entrance into our family. Obviously this was going to be a new photo opportunity for me but I wanted to try something a little different from the normal baby portrait image. I really like the aesthetic quality of “Bokeh” the beautiful soft effect…
Three days and counting to Christmas Day! After hearing good reviews from family and friends, my twin brother and I decided to go to Winter Wonderland in Hyde Park, London. It was a great idea but as we had left it until the last minute to book tickets for some of the attractions (like the…
‘Curate a show of previous photography work around a theme…’ assignment was given to us and unfortunately the deadline coincided with another major Orientation Project assignment deadline. The timings proved a bit tricky for me to juggle but I got there in the end… Initially, we were told to get into groups of our own choosing and…
I am definitely not a morning person, I never have been and I can say for a fact I NEVER WILL BE a morning person. So you may well ask ‘why was I standing at the entrance of Southampton Solent’s library waiting for a coach at 5.30am on a freezing Saturday morning in December?’ The answer is:…I…
Inspired by the ‘Constructing Worlds’ architecture photography exhibition at The Barbican I took some pastel coloured images at Portobello Market before I went off to my next exhibition at the V&A Museum to see the master photographer, Horst P. Horst. © Hayley Salmon
I am fascinated by plant’s natural beauty and their diverse forms, colours, shapes, structure, textures and patterns. In my A-Level Photography studies I conducted a personal investigation of plant life photography by researching botanical master photographers such as Man Ray, Karl Blossfeldt and Imogen Cunningham. So therefore imagine my surprise when I visited the Horst…
This week I have gone into London twice as I have an assignment on exhibition review writing as part of my BA Photography course. Hard life I know… I have visited The Photographers Gallery, the Barbican and the V&A Museum. The Photographer’s gallery had an exhibition on Edward Steichen and Viviane Sassen. I especially liked the work of Edward…
Constructing Worlds – Photography and Architecture in the Modern Age Exhibition View I was really looking forward to visiting the Barbican as I have researched three of the artists (for an Orientation project on documentary photography) whose works were on display at this show – Walker Evans, Thomas Struth and Bernd/Hilla Becher. My anticipation was…
Edward Steichen: In High Fashion, The Condé Nast Years 1923 – 1937 I love fashion but have always shied away from doing fashion shoots. I think this is due to the lack of confidence in using studio lighting (hopefully I will get to grips with this during my degree course) but a photographer who did master…
Last night I went to the fireworks display at the Mayflower Park in Southampton with a few new Uni friends and I loved it. We began our evening visiting the fairground – going on rides and eating some not too healthy food (which isn’t much of a new thing for me), before moving off to the Riverside to watch the firework display.…
For part of our visual exploration assignment I was instructed to go to the library and pick an image from any photography magazine/journal that I was interested in and scan it using a high resolution scanner setting (at least 600 dpi) and to find out specifics about the image, for example who created the image…
Since the global financial crisis of 2008, our news has been littered with ‘the credit crunch’, government cutbacks, funding losses, food banks for the needy, zero percent pay rises, people on the poverty line and of course now, close to my heart, the £9,000 University tuition fees. The effects of the worldwide financial collapse is…
Printing of contact sheets aren’t so difficult to wrap your head around as you may first imagine. A contact sheet provides you with a positive print of the negative film. This print then allows you to choose your favourite image to make professional prints. Contact sheets don’t need to be perfect as they are meant to be…
It was a glorious Autumn sunny Sunday and my parents had popped down to see how I was doing at Uni. After a quick stopover to my new favourite restaurant Sprinkles for waffles (it had to be done!), I persuaded them that we should all go for a walk in the New Forest (aka I wanted to photograph the ponies!). I love wildlife…
I have got very little experience in processing a black and white film while I was studying for my A Level in Photography at Farnborough Sixth Form College and therefore I had much to master at Southampton Solent University to get even slightly proficient at it. I have created this blog as a memory aid for me but it may…
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