Let your heart do the talking. ♥

Monday, 10 March 2014

Positivity is key

I'm feeling very positive about everything at the moment which is helping to motivate me. I feel like today has been very productive and I now feel ready to start my design analysis essay for Layout and Visualisation which I have been putting off for a while now. I tend to get quite down about university work and the stress of uni life so I'm happy that i'm finally feeling more positive.

I can't believe that first year is nearly over, everything has gone so fast! I remember my first day at university and being really nervous about meeting the people on my course and now I'm deciding on my options for second year! I will be choosing my options today which i'm very excited about. I will be doing Introduction to Fashion and Styling and Presenting skills. I think Level 5 will be challenging in lots of ways but also very rewarding as I will be studying something I'm really interested in and I am keen to find out more.

My presentation skills is something I really need to work on as I'm quite a shy person at times and to be a journalist you need to be confident, especially when interviewing. I feel like this unit will help me overcome my fears and really improve at the things i'm not so good at, at the moment. I am very happy with the way things are going and I'm hoping to get lots more work done whilst i'm feeling motivated.

Friday, 21 February 2014

Nature with Fashion shoot

These photographs capture the beauty of the model in a
natural environment in an unusual way.

Monday, 7 October 2013

My experience of uni life so far

I have been at university for just over two weeks now but it feels like so much longer! In the first few days, everything was overwhelming and moving away from home felt like the scariest thing in the world but now that I've settled in I can't remember why I was so worried. I have met some really lovely people since being here and they've made the whole experience that little bit easier. On the 27th September one of my lecturers arranged a London trip for us all. We went to Carnaby Street first to have a look around the shops and to grab some lunch. We then went to The Photographers Gallery on Ramillies Street where we looked around the gallery and another one of my lecturers spoke to us about the photographs we were looking at. After the Gallery we walked to ICA off site, The Old Selfridges Hotel which is an exhibition. It's about a journey through London's Sub Culture - 1980's to now. I took photographs throughout this trip and i'll be uploading the best ones in this blog. I'll be annotating some of them and the others will just be photographs I took to show you more of the trip. I found the trip an interesting experience and picked up lots of leaflets along the way to read up on at a later date.

This photograph was taken in Carnaby Street as you can probably tell from the photograph. I thought the black and white photography would capture the atmosphere I was going for better than colour photography would. I wanted to show how busy London is but also how beautiful it looks.

I love the detail in this photograph and that there's lots going on. Like the other photograph above, I was trying to capture London at it's best. The busy streets are all part of London life and so I thought this was the perfect opportunity for a photograph which captures that.

This photograph was taken at the Photographers Gallery. It was one of my favourite photographs there as there are lots of different photographs in a photo frame and I loved them all. I think they're all unusual and stood out from the rest as they were that little bit different.

This photograph was another one of my favourites as it is very eye catching. It's very simplistic but that's what makes it beautiful. It stands out on it's own making it that little bit more intriguing.