After his talk today I really wanted to have a chat with Nick about my work just to see if he liked it and what he thought I could improve on. I wasn't sure if he would have enough time but he went round one by one and did have enough time to speak to everyone which was nice.
Once it got to my turn I put together a selection of images from my four different shoots so that he could see my development and because he likes to show work from the beginning to the end.
The first thing he asked me was how I was finding it. I said it was hard as I'm finding it hard to get rid of the green reflection on the image. I also told him that I was planning on turning it into a flick book so I'm needing to edit my images quickly in order to create the book. He's never used the green screen but asked whether I had lit the set which I have but didn't light the background and foreground separately so he said to try that. He also suggested that I tried on location because he loves the outdoors but he was also saying it because he thinks that so many things are possible and was trying to make it easier for me. I said that I had thought about shooting on location but because the weather is a little unpredictable at the moment it's a bit touch and go. He suggested a place that's nice to take images inside and outside if the weather is horrible. Port Eliot. I have researched into Port Eliot because that's where I've looked at and have been told about before but he said there they have a nice orangery that they fill with flowers and plants and are normally quieter at this time of year because it's not being used for weddings. He told me to give them an email so that's what I'm going to do if editing really doesn't work out.
He has also told me to look at Tim Walker's work because his work is very similar in the aspect of he likes to stage extravagant images. Walker is a fashion photographer who has shot for Vogue for many years. He brings in the props that he wants in the image into the set instead of photoshopping them in. The image below is from a series of images of Kate Moss for Italian Vogue in December 2015. This is an example of everything in the frame being in the frame at the time of shooting. I am going to look a lot further into Walker's work because it so far is really interesting.
The crit with the Nick was really helpful as I feel it was a really chilled chat with a photographer that has come from the same background as all of us to start off with. He really seemed to liked my work even though my work is completely different to his work.
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