EASY

Easy. from Charlie Jay on Vimeo.

A small stop motion animation we made for a uni project. Please click VIMEO link the the corner to see it big + HD and for full description. Enjoy!

DUST.

As far as photographing large format goes..

Its ridiculously expensive
Its pretty damn awkward
Its heavy
Its very time consuming

and

most of all

Its impossible to get a dust free image while trying to juggle all the other things going on.

Here is a wonderful shot i managed to get right a few weeks back in Bristol. Turns out its got some sort of ridiculous piece of hair on the neg.

Sucks, but these are the things that you learn from. Next time i know DUST is even more of a priority than before.

Check the detail of this beast in the second image.

EDGAR MARTINS

Incredible.

Got to get his books asap.

RADIOHEAD

After an extremely busy period, I now have absolutely nothing to really think about. I'm back home in Cornwall, the air is cold and i am pretty much car-less. Anyone from my area will realize this isn't such a good thing at all.

Anyway, over the last couple of weeks i have been getting extremely into RADIOHEAD. I have never liked the band but after seeing them at Reading this year i totally changed my perspective. Now, these last two or so weeks they have become the sole artist i can actually listen to. I watched their set from Reading about 4 times in 4 days. 2 of those in one day. It was incredible. Even though i didn't think too much of them at the time, i look back now and find it hard not to feel emotions running through my body when i see footage of the set.

These few weeks at home are going to be exciting. Hopefully a lot of photography and relaxing. Something i haven't done properly in a long time.

Also, hopefully quite a lot of blogging too.

Image from the BBC website

Bridges.

I have a small fascination with bridges and road junctions. M32 Bristol. Shot on Kodak Portra 160NC 5x4 Sheet Film.

More Boundries.

Severn Beach, Near Bristol. Shot on Portra 160NC 5x4 Sheet Film

M5 Avonmouth

Recently went on a little road trip up to Bristol to get some more shots for my uni project. Pretty successful. Here is a little taster taken underneath the M5 at Avonmouth. Shot on Kodak Portra 160NC 5x4 Sheet Film.

Park and Ride.

New images from non-places/boundaries of urbanization series. Scans from C-Type Prints. Please click to view bigger.

Boundries of Urbanizaton

Mini project within the header of 'Non-Place'. Something i feel will expand into something bigger over time. Shot on 5x4 Portra 160NC. Click for bigger version.

Life in Miniature

While playing waiting for the right light for a shot last night i realized i had never messed around with manipulating the focal plane on large format cameras... This suddenly struck that i could do the whole 'it looks tiny' thing PROPERLY! No digital manipulation just pure, hard, large format colour film. Beautiful. I whacked in the 6x8cm roll film holder and got this little beaut of the train station in Plymouth. Even though loads of people do it, its nice to do it BIG. Pretty cool ey?