Professional Practice

  Commercial These are classed as businesses with the main goal of achieving a profit. Collectors who visit these galleries will buy artwork that has been on display and then both the artist and the gallery will receive a percentage of the commission each. Commercial can be seen as quite strict places to get work put on display as they will only look at and display work that they feel will sell the easiest as they have business targets to achieve. However, if you wish to set up your own commercial gallery it will take a long time due to the initial investments you require to get the gallery off and running. Along with financial restraints you will need to ensure you can find artists who would like to have their work on display and sold, so it will require artist connections along with clients who are eager to buy artwork. An example of a commercial gallery is The Brick Lane Gallery in London which specialises in displaying Fine Art pieces. Artist Run These are galleries that are ru...

https://www.megandoherty.com/ - Simplistic colour pallet but very easy to navigate and find relevant information. I was able to find out all the relevant information about her including all the work she has produced and developed which was for herself and commercially. Along with being able to find the information her work was presented in a clear and thought out way that made it not only visually appealing and cohesive with the design. http://www.leestitt.com/  - Easy to navigate and clever layout and design. His work has no relevance to fashion but i really appreciate landscape photography. His work has captured an image so perfectly still you expect it to move as if it was a video on the website. I like the feature that Lee included which was a video about his latest piece which adds a whole level of usage and functionality to the site. https://www.tylermitchell.co/  - For me i really like any website that isn't too over the top with the design and for Tyler Mitchell he ha...

When i think about photography my first instinct goes towards fashion and portraiture. However, recently i have begun exploring more landscapes, but at the moment fashion is my biggest interest. I began studying and making fashion images since the age of 12 and all my life i have kept up with fashion trends and my own style all my life. I gained a connection to making these images as my connections with people began to expand due to the fact a lot of my friends are very stylish themselves and therefore made a lot of sense to capture them. As i develop my work and my status in the industry i want to share my work in numerous places so my images and style become much more recognised. Once i have work in multiple locations and people from those areas are finding my work then i will start looking at expanding outside of local areas and connecting with more regional individuals, places and companies to continue expanding.  In the fashion world a photographer can be vital but there is a ...

In photography ethics can play a very vital role in how individuals produce and create work due to restraints, whether that is legal or classed as a gentleman's agreement amongst other members of the art world. The thing is ethics can be very broad and can incorporate a bunch of different factors about copyright, types of subjects used, ethnicities and a whole range of other variables.  For starters the main issue that causes a lot of tension between artists is the fact that many can copy a piece of work directly or indirectly. Meaning they might copy a very small part such as a similar idea or way of capturing their image, or directly in which they make work that is virtually a direct copy of someone else's work while trying to pass it off as their own and something brand new. An example of this is Sherrie Levine's "After Walker Evans" in which she essentially made a like for like copy of Walker Evans work from his "American Photographs". Many people di...

With my website i decided to go with a stylish design that is prominent but still keeps class and an aesthetic throughout. I tried out a variety of different website builder sites (Squarespace, Wix, GoDaddy, Weebly) However, after careful consideration and what worked best for me, i stuck with Wix. This was mainly due to cost of the website, ease of use and also the options that were available to me to not only improve the look of my website but also functionality and also collating a domain name. But, with all the payment plans available Wix doesn't force you to pay for your website until you are satisfied and want to have a professional look for everybody to see. However, you can post your website without paying but Wix put a couple of ad banners in places. In my opinion i felt that i'm not ready to promote myself on a website i have payed for because i haven't gained enough worthy experience to want to pay for the site. So for now i have the ads on the site but would obv...

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Focuses on: Location Issues Pay Rates Career Paths Opportunities General Overview:  Most of the photographers that shoot for music industries will either be given specific clients or will pick their own to follow around. This can range from either a solo artist to a full-on band or even an orchestra. The photographer’s sole purpose is to document and showcase what the music artist or artist get up to in their career along with providing them and the industry documentation/ a memory that they can look back upon in years to come. As a music photographer working commercially you may be sent to recording sessions, fan meet-ups and even shows. Mainly, your work will be used for a lot of advertising campaigns surrounding your client and sometimes your images can change the whole perspective or outlook of your set individual or group. However, being a part of an agency, a lot of your work will be subject to approval so you may not have a broad creative freedom to your work than you may ha...

Focuses On: Location Issues Pay Rates Career Paths Opportunities General Overview:  Working in Film and Tv as a photographer your role would be usually to document either the makings of a Tv show or Film that shows the behind the scenes as well as shots that made the final cut, for either advertising or the commercial companies archive that hired you in the first place. However, you may not want to be a photographer working in the Film and Tv industry but an equipment manager or assistant, taking care of all the very expensive equipment and getting it to and from locations and studios. All of these jobs involve a lot of late nights, early mornings travelling to locations and studios.  Locations:  As a commercial photographer in the Film and Tv industry you will be mainly asked to either sort out your own travel to and from the various locations for shooting, or if you are very lucky and hired by a company that has a lot of income/ funds to spend you may have travel provid...

Website Design One body of work- project Squarespace or Wix Budget Reliability/ IT support Style Ease of build/ maintenance Is a domain name included Principles Purpose Audience Navigation Style High Quality Imagery Appropriate Fonts Content/ Language      Look, ease of use is vital Don't set yourself up as current you, think about brand image as a whole. Less is more Chang Liu

  Factors to consider when costing the shoot Time- Cost compared to others/ shooting/ editing/ travel/ meeting/ planning Assistant needed ? Travel- bags, fuel, distance Equipment rental if needed- cameras, lighting, lens, props, tripods, memory card, laptop Studio Food and drink, hotel Stylist/ hair/ makeup Post production Ownership/license of images Output/ printing Business/ tax status/ insurance Notes Local photographer- £99 per hour- headshots, personal use Cost of running + Cost of goods + Cost of time and Labour + Profit + Taxes = Pricing More control by the client = higher price Travel- Train = Ipswich- Liverpool Street Set up = 30 minutes- hour Two assistants- Train cost £137 each Shooting- 45min Max per person- 9 people Tube- £6- Liverpool Street- Canary Wharf 8 hours total Equipment rental- Macbook, medium format camera, necessary post production software, Tripod, reflectors, battery packs, location permission, light cone profoto and speal light stash Costs Camera- £175 p...

Portfolio Review 4:  • Uni vs Home life  Positives:  • Very clear images/ good quality  • Paints an image of their life at home an uni  Negatives:   • Quite bland colour pallet  • No set order so can be confusing to work out what represents what  1   Positives:  • Allows the viewer to almost make their own assumptions about what the photos are showing • Collective of images works well as it’s a full body of work rather than really jumpy between the images  Negatives:  • Very dark • Quite confusing as to what it’s about  • The borders take away the effect from the image.  3:  Positives:  • Effective way of presenting the images in the sleeves  • Sophisticated way of laying out the images trying all different ways to see what works well. • Beautiful and clear portraits of the subjects used  • Outfits are really eye catching in a lot of the full body portraits.  Negati...

Prosecution- Diane Arbus Prejudiced highlighting a vulnerable and strange/ disabled individuals. Twins, Disabled. Highlighting and singling them out making them seen abnormal when they are still regular humans. Her work is to provoke an opinions on the subjects. Exploiting these individuals and hasn't provided or given some agreement/ friendship but used them to make money. Not raising awareness of the problems but using interesting people to make interesting images. Would you be happy if these were pictures of you. Daughter used her work for money tarnishing her mothers name. The book Untitled 24 years off. Defence- Richard Prince On social media for anyone to see and use. Becomes an image of instagram. Comments on work to provide some form of creative control and to change the meaning and focus of the image. Still gave credit to the accounts it was posted on. An account was selling an image for £90 but some of Richards work for $100,000. The account should have watermarked their ...