Two more from Chyan

Just for your enjoyment.

Relationships 2

I took these images during the day of CSM vs RSM sports, firstly at the football and then at the rugby, the last two images were taken at the end of the 'tunnel', the show of respect rugby players give each other after each match where the teams walk through a tunnel made up by the opposite players shaking hands.
I have mixed feels about these images, I like the first two images, I feel like they are a very truthful portrayal of the CSM crowd that day. I especially the second image. I like the last two images due to the fact they are much closer and you feel apart of it more.
My reasoning behind the mixed feelings behind the images is purely down to the success of my first shoot. My first shoot went perfectly, and I produced a set of images which I think are possibly my best ever. I dont feel these are as good as my first shoot by any means, but the brief is that I have to submit three singular Relationship photographs from Three different shoots. I think I will have to find a subject, a group of people as nice as those at Chyan and feel as comfortable in the shoot to produce images to that quality again. Chyan was special circumstances, circumstances that are not easy to replicate when you have other briefs and heavy workload ontop of a taxing relationships brief.

What I am trying to say is Do I use one of these Images as a Relationships Image, leaving myself with 1 shoot to go for Relationships, or Do I scrap it and find something new?
All opinions would be gratefully received.
patricksimoncampbell@hotmail.com

C-41

Today marked a new chapter in my first year of my Press & Editorial photography degree, we were inducted onto the C-41 processing machine. For this we were required to go shoot a roll of colour film to process.  We had to shoot in daylight, to get the best range of colours and tones. I went out into Falmouth by myself armed with my Canon T70 a 50mm Lens and a Single roll of Colour film. The colour printing comes tomorrow, which I am very excited about, for now I scanned in two images.

90.

Umbrella.

The first image I like because of the way I went about shooting it, Whilst driving past in my car I noticed her sitting on the bench and how her coat was simular colouring to the gravel behind her. I just thought it would look cool on colour film, so i pulled over and approached her. I'm sure she was more nervous than I was, a 22yr old striding up to her with a camera, but I do struggle sometimes with approaching strangers asking to photograph them, as the British public can be quite nasty about it. However she was very sweet and after I told her I was a documentary photographer just documenting Falmouth for the day she let me take her portrait. I quite like it.

The second image of the umbrella I shot with practicing colour printing in the back of my mind. It's got a lot of tones and colours and so I thought could make an interesting print. I won't go into a babble about the representation of the umbrella amongst the trash... It was simply there so I shot it.

Relationships

Chloe-Amber & Gregg playing with their dog in their home on Chyan Community fields on 18/02/12

Chris (guitar), Gregg (drum) and Marina (flute) improvising together whilst young Beth watches.

Chyan community fields is actually a Farm, there are on average 15 people that live in their separate caravans, trucks and old busses. It is not a travellers site where people move on after a week or so, The inhabitants stay for long periods of time and make it their home. It is an alternative way of living. It is not completely self sustainable but large parts of it is. They charge their batteries for electricity via wind turbines that are on site and their water comes from a near by spring. Each person rents their part for a small fee, or if they choose can do around 8hrs volunteer work on the farm, such as the vegetable patches instead.

I made two visits to Chyan Community fields, firstly on Wednesday 15th February, for introductions and then on Saturday 18th I spent a day and night with the people that live on Chyan, documenting the small community and how they interact with each other. What I really took from the whole experience was how close they all are. As it is such a small community of like minded characters, they all seem so tight. In saying this they were all more than accomodating and welcoming, making me feel at home in the time I was there. I was slightly envious of their lifestyle, it felt to me as if their simpler way of living, was far more beneficial. They have everything they need, and can spend their time enjoying each others company in the evening. Enjoying the little things in life.

I am going to continue to document Chyan as a personal study, I have made friends there and I find it such a visually interesting place to study.

The website, I feel is a terrible representation of place it is, however if you are interested in looking

http://www.chyan.org.uk/

Wake Up Rhiannon

I wanted to practice use with a Metz 45 cl-4 flash that I took out of the university stores one evening, Previously that night I had taken some images of other people from my course however these were all just 'test' shots. When I returned back to my flat I decided I would knock on everybody's doors at 3am and capture them when they had just woken up. Rhiannon was the only one silly enough to open her door at this awful hour, and so then became my next mini photo project.

So for all of this Rhiannon, I do apologise, But thank you.

patricksimoncampbell@hotmail.com

Royal Mail Sorting office - Falmouth

After not feeling great about my Food bank shoot, I went to the sorting office and managed to get access. It wasn't so fun getting up at 5am, but once I got shooting I forgot the tiredness and really started to enjoy myself. As I only had my crit today I had only printed up ones that I liked before Guy had a chance to look at them. He told me he was surprised at the selection that I had gone for, so tomorrow I shall carry on with the images that Guy boxed out in red.

Feel free to give me some feed back!
patricksimoncampbell@hotmail.com

Truro Food Bank

These images were my first shoot for the 'Person at work' project. I have such mixed reactions about this shoot, so much so I am uncertain if I shall submit it. I went to Truro food bank for the homeless, however surprisingly no homeless showed up. This just lead me to shoot people sorting out food into sell by dates for 3 hours. I found it hard to concentrate and work different angles. In the crit when I showed this work, and mentioned that I was unsure on it, Guy Martin's reaction was similar to mine, Although I have pictures I can use, he boxed out in green, that it would probably be good to re shoot if I felt that I want to. However my course mates and flat mates have had a different reaction, marking out in red ones that a few of them liked.
I haven't done many work prints yet as I have been focussing on other shoots.

I would be grateful for any feed back.

patricksimoncampbell@hotmail.com
http://www.trurofoodbank.org/

Lucy.

I have finally invested in a scanner so I can get some of my film work online. It's not a negative scanner though so the quality won't be particularly good. This is a portrait of Lucy I took in my first week, the contact sheet above. This was a project set by the 2nd year 'mentors' entitled 'Who do you think you are?'. This is taken on campus with my Canon T-70 with a 35-70mm Sigma Lens and a Skylight filter.