Just to say some photos maybe missing links today. Particularly those that I have linked from flickr to my tumblr, as I am deleting/managing my Flickr account due to the copyright changes of orphan works in the UK. All links/photos will be back to normal by this weekend :)
Thanks,
NaTasha xo
On monday I went into Central London along with my friend Sophie to shoot more of my final uni project, the morning went well I achieved what I needed to. I even ran into the male and female winners of the London Marathon being photographed by the press with their trophy. Later in the day we came across Stephen Lawrence’s 20th anniversary memorial service (a victim of a racial hate crime) at St Martin-in-the-Fields Church at Trafalgar Square. Out came, David Cameron, Borris Johnson, Ed Miliband and Nick Clegg. Followed by Sol Campbell, Jermain Defoe, Jahmene Douglas and Emeli Sande. Below are some photographs, I was not prepared for this, I was shooting on a 50mm 1.8 lens, also I did not want to appear disrespectful to the memorial so I did not approach anyone, although everyone appeared happy and Borris said Hello and waved.
Shortly after, we came across a second crowd huddled around Vue cinema in Leicester Square, it was the premiere of a British film “All Stars”. A child/teen film that I had not heard of before, however we got to see some new and some popular faces. Kimberly Walsh, Ashley Jensen, Ashleigh and Pudsey and Kevin Bishop. New faces, Akai Osei-Mansfield, Kieran Lai, and Hanae Atkins.
I will follow this post tomorrow with some of the shots I captured for my final project :)
Enjoy,
NaTasha xo
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Heyyy,
I was away in Croatia, had a blast but now I’m back and ready for my last stint of uni ever :O Got about 4 weeks before everything is due for hand in. I will be rather busy but will keep posting new photos. I’ll be shooting in Central London once a week from now on so keep an eye out.
Hope everyones Spring Break was as good as mine ;) Any ILoveTour goers out there?
NaTasha xo
I did a new shoot this week with Madi, and had Bianca use her artistic skills to do some leopard print body paint on Madi. I admire photographs of animals taken at night using a harsh, direct light towards the subject resulting in the animal being well illuminated and the background left very dark. I wanted to recreate this look, the portraits I took of Madi the other week were very innocent and natural. I wanted to show Madi’s wild side but retain the innocence that I captured before. I feel I achieved this mostly by leaving the clothing plain as not to represent an element of fashion within the frame. Madi retained her innocence through her facial expressions but expressed her wild side through her poses. This is just extra portfolio work, something that I wanted to try and overall felt it went really well. Here are some of the results, more to edit, will upload as I go. :)
I also worked with my friend from class who is also on tumblr check out her work: Sophie Burrows.
Enjoy,
NaTasha xo
On friday I got the opportunity to shoot at London Fashion Weekend at Somerset House, this time I had the chance to shoot from the photographers pit. It was a hectic but great day, and confirmed to me that press/events is what I want to be doing. I liked shooting for someone else, having the pressure of capturing correctly exposed images and working to a time frame. We had one hour from when the show ended to choose, edit, and email (without wi-fi being provided) 5 images from each show. I also rented a 70-200mm 2.8 Nikkor lens for the show, simply said: I love it and I continue to save for one. So fast to focus, performance amazing, I can’t complain… but it is heavy… must build more muscles. Below are some of my results: I started out shooting very direct, because we saw the same show twice I opted to shoot on an angle for something different the second time round, some worked better than others. I am continuing to edit and will post on here and my Flickr page as usual.
Enjoy,
NaTasha xo
Last week I had a studio session with two models Madi & Bianca, I am building up my portraiture portfolio as graduation is round the corner and I need a photography job! :) I spent the later half of last week editing them, full series can be seen on my website. www.NFuller.co.uk or my flickr page www.Flickr.com/photos/NFuller
Enjoy NaTasha xo
A short slideshow documenting my hobby, the angles a biker sees and appreciates. Taken for my portfolio work. See my Flickr page for high res images: www.Flickr.com/photos/nfuller
Watch in 1080p for best quality.
I DO NOT own the music. No copyright intended.
As an avid mountain biker I wanted to document my bike and the angles I am used to seeing and appreciating it from. Here is a collage of the images. I am going to put them in a short 30 second slideshow and upload it in a bit. For now you can see high res copies on my Flickr page. I like when I can combine two things I really love doing, photography and biking. Whilst at uni I haven’t been able to get out on my bike as much as I would want to… one of the things I am actually looking forward to post-university. For other bikers…This bike, Kona Kikapu 05, I brought back with me from Canada when I moved back to the UK. Kona is so reliable, and it rode so well in Whistler (Cross Country & some Downhill) and I also took it across Canada and the United States, still going strong.
NaTasha xo
Source: Flickr / nfuller
Here is the final 100% completed video of ‘24 Hours in London’ along with music made for the video by Robert Silver. The video is compiled of 2182 photographs put together in a time-lapse manner. Originally made for my second year University project, my idea was to build an advert that could be used as a tourism commercial to excite the World for the London 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games. Now the Games have been, and were an amazing success, I hope the viewers can enjoy this video for its views of some of my favourite places in London. Look out for more videos and photographs like this on my website at www.NFuller.co.uk
Music by Robert Silver - www.classicalalchemy.bandcamp.com
These past couple months have flown by, I hope you all had a great holiday period and are not finding it too hard to fit back into work or school. I am back at uni for my last semester everrrrrrr. So I have been prepping my website and portfolio for the world of full time employment. I have created a new website and recently bought the domain www.NFuller.co.uk it is linked to my old website at the minute but I will unveil the new look this week. I love my old site however the provider were unable to present images at high quality. I love the design of my old site but I have somewhat subdued to the colours, the new site has a more professional look and feel, and is easier to navigate.
Just before winter break I started my degree major project , I set out in London to test out my idea. Unfortunately it was a very grey day and I found it hard to gain sharp images, below are some of my results.
My idea is to capture London in a documentary style, looking at how the city goes about its business, from the vantage point of a rooft top. I haven’t limted myself to rooftops but to areas that can provide me with a similar downward angle on the city.
This project stems from both my negotiated project ‘24 Hours in London’ and my dissertation, where I heavily reflected on the development and possible demise of documentary photography.
As I would like to work in the press after graduation I am aiming to finish with a strong documentary piece, my aim is not to capture the city in a landscape or street photography style and my influence comes from Magnum Photographer Rene Burri and his photograph taken in Sao Paulo in 1960. The image can be seen here PAR8679.jpg (© Rene Burri/Magnum Photos).
I like how he captured the four suited men and their domineering shadows, they appear unreachable above the city as it continues about its business beneath them. The crop is unlike a traditional rooftop photograph and in turn defines the images as a documentary photograph. The area becomes less identifiable and the people and smaller details become the focus point of the viewer. The architecture is still apparent but less of a viable to sign to identifying the area specifically. This is what I would like to achieve in my work.
The areas I am choosing to capture are parts of the city that held the attention of the nation over 2012, but will not be as easy to identify due to the angles and crops I aim to use.
I hope you enjoy the images, please let me know what you think, I appreciate any feedback :)
NaTasha xo
I have been continuing the Rituals Project (the post below describes this project), here are some scans from my last two sessions of developing. I am headed back into the darkroom tomorrow so I will upload the results of those at the weekend, I am also looking to chose my final eight frames… between this and the previous post I think I have about 6 finals I am happy with :)
Also I was bored at home the other day so decided to shoot a new self portrait, I do not really like taking photos of myself but sometimes you are your only accessible model :) I used my flashgun and wireless trigger to set off my flash, holding it to the side of my face and underexposing the rest of the frame.
I completed my first draft of my dissertation, received good feedback and do not have that much work to do on it, so I should be able to get out and shoot more now. Although with Christmas coming up I am picking up some extra shifts at work where I can to help with the present list for my family and friends. Can’t believe its only 5 weeks away :O Only 4 weeks left of uni! My last Uni Christmas :’( Final Year will soon be over :O
Enjoy
NaTasha xo
This morning I spent in the darkroom developing four of my possible final pieces, for our project Rituals. I decided to capture objects and scenes that I saw every day on my way to work this past summer, each frame relates to a time I would reach it and signal to me how close I was to work. I had an extended commute into London this summer and the journey whilst it was the same every day, always presented me with different scenes within each of these photographs. Each of the items captured remind me of one of these scenes, for example something as simple as the day the Victoria Line shut and the platform was overflowing with people dressed in formal wear trying to reach work.
These were shot on FP4 film (ISO125), and each exposed between 33-37 seconds. The test strip I have also scanned in is a sample of the suggested development time, shown at 5 second intervals.
I will update this project as it expands, I am looking for 8 final prints, I believe I have found my first four in these below.
Enjoy,
NaTasha xo
A mirror on the curved stairwell down to the underground at Finsbury Park Tube Station.
Exposed at 33 Seconds.
Arriving on the Victoria Line Platform at Finsbury Park.
Exposed at 35 Seconds.
Heading up the tube escalator at Green Park Station.
Exposed at 37 Seconds.
This giant sign is about 4ft long and is unmissable from one of the main crossroads in Victoria.
Exposed at 35 Seconds.
Hey Guys, Sorry I have been sooooooo busy over the summer, I am back into the swing of all my photo projects now. Here are some final images from the Paralympic Games that I have only now got to edit!
I am currently amid my final year dissertation for uni but a third of the way done in 3 days! That makes me rather happy :D Just hope it is good :/
Off to London shooting on film tomorrow, using Ilford 125 FP4 film for a new project titled ‘Rituals’. The ritual I intend to shoot, is my journey that I have been doing for the last few months to work, pretty standard, but I want to work on my street photography and not just a take a photo of a train etc… will develop in the darkroom monday so will post results very soon!!
Enjoy,
NaTasha xo
What an amazing two weeks… London really shone, TeamGB did amazing, the World’s athletes put on incredible performance, the weather was great and London housed the Olympics perfectly with a marvellous array of venues!!
I can’t fault the Opening and Closing ceremonies although if your not British and don’t know that much about us I can see it could be quite confusing and appear a bit odd, but the show, music and lighting was spectacular!
It has been a hectic few weeks with more to come, I will give you a better account of the events of the Olympics and the coming Paralympics once I finish my working week for this week, but for now here is a link to the photographs I took at some events around London.
Who watched the Olympics? Who’s tuning in for the Paralympics? :D
Enjoy,
Natasha xo
The rain gave me a perfect opportunity to freshen up my ‘Frozen Water’ Project an ongoing project started in my final year of college (UK - Before Uni).
I used a home setup with items that you all probably have at home and in no way do they have to be the same items, but anything shiny or reflective works great to add all the more light to this type of photography. Below is an image of my setup: Using a saucepan lid and heavy bottles to prop it up with, I used a jug flipped upside down and a table mat across it to raise the area I was photographing toward the camera’s lens.
I was looking to capture droplets, splashes, coronets, and ripples in the water, I used various liquids as the vaster the viscosity the slower the liquid falls creating a different and some times better splash. Also a softer splash.
Here are some of my results:
My Setup: (Photo Taken on My HTC XL). Doesn’t look that impressive but you can use it for all types of photography at home, the same can be recreated on a larger scale. I am shooting in front of a window which is a major help, also if you can angle or hold a shiny surface over the top of your object this will add a lot of light, if angled correctly, if it creates a shadow take it away or re-position it.
I actually started by using the setup to reflect on the rainy Wimbledon season… what a season though… best Wimbledon we’ve had in a loooooong time :D
Here are four different lighting techniques you can get from this setup which all have very different purposes as you can see… Simply move the flashgun around ball/object and alter the power of its flash to create the type of lighting you want. You can have a lot of fun with it, but its quite time consuming. I don’t recommend trying the water photos at home unless you read up on it first, remember your camera is likely not to be waterproof, neither is your flash, your lens, your mothers dining table or pretty much anything that is involved in this type of photography, be careful, take your time and don’t rush anything… I have ruined furniture and camera equipment in the past! lol
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Enjoy
NaTasha xo
