People and Place!

With the start of a new course I always feel like it is the start of the year and I should be writing New Year Resolutions! It is like being given a fresh new slate, or when you were at school and you got a new exercise book, you would always try your hardest to write really neatly and keep it tidy.

I am really going to dedicate more time of a regular basis to study and I must stay on track with the projects. I am also going to try and improve on my technical ability and make sure that I view other photographers work more frequently.

My course notes have arrived and I have started to go through it all so that I can see what is expected of me. It starts off with portraits and coincidentally a magazine I receive (the Photographer) through being a student member of the BIPP arrived featuring photographer Tom Hoops. He creates portraits with a difference using shadow, excellent framing and all of his subjects are beautifully posed. To succeed he made his portraits more commercially viable ad his work is well known in the fashion world. His work has really inspired me as I start this new course, probably as it has that link with fashion and that is my passion.

Here are a few examples of his work. I like how he varies the composition and how he frames each portrait. I think this links really well with the first exercise of this course.