Exhibition's Private View

The Private View of our exhibition was very successful, which was full of friends and family. The entire night ran smoothly and we were able to pull it off well after all of our hard work running up to the exhibition. 

Here are a selection of photographs that were taken on the private view; 

Exhibition Hanging

All students were up early ready to get stuck in to help hang everyone's work. This was the day of the Private view so all help was needed. 

We all worked in small groups to assist each other with hanging the work. 

Here are some images below; 

Exhibition Preparation

Leading up to the exhibition private view, the space needed preparation so that it was ready and looked professional.

Below shows a selection of images of the students in the exhibition hard at work painting the space ready for the hanging process tomorrow. 

Exhibition Framing

Before heading to the exhibition space to hang the photographs, I needed to frame them at college. This ensured that I kept as much dust out as possible. It was a stressful process as the frame bits kept getting in between the glass and my image. 

Here are some photographs of the process I undertook. 

Upcoming Exhibition

It would be great to see as many people come to our exhibition. Only a week to go. 

Behind the Scenes - Exhibition shoots

Due to the amount of children I have decided to photograph in the series, I have created some behind the scenes photographs which are below; 

Photographs for College Prospectus

Within this session, we were split into groups whereby we had to travel around the college creating images that complied to the brief in order to create a college prospectus. The area of college that we worked with was Landbase (Animal Care). 

To begin with we photographed the microscope shot by first working out the settings on the camera and placing the lights where they were needed. For all of the shots we needed to turn the room lights off. For the microscope image we set the equipment up to be in the image, arranged the softbox to the right of the camera (power 3) and an umbrella light to the left hand side of the camera (1/4 power).

Here is our groups final image that we took using students from landbase. 

The next image was within the X-ray area where we used the X-ray to create the next image. For this image below the settings we used were ISO 400, F-10, and 1/150. We used the light box that is used to view the X-rays and natural lighting. 

We then tried to photographing the X-ray up against the window, to see the skeleton. The camera settings we used were ISO 200, F-10 and 1/150. We also used a soft box (power 1) to the left hand side of the camera.

The next shoot was to photograph the lizard with a student alongside the cages of various other creatures. We made sure that the room lights were all turned off. We used three lights in total; a soft box for the subject (power 4), and two standard lights pointing at the ceiling corners (full power) this was to bounce the light around the room to light it. 

The last shoot was to capture the two donkeys together but it was difficult to get them together so we concentrated on one of them. 

Overall, I feel that I have learnt a lot by doing lighting on location and with more practice I will be able to do it naturally. It was a great session and I had great fun.