OTHER BLOG.

Au revoir Blogger.. I have been on Tumblr for a while now for those who do not know.. Check it out here.

Set Construction Time Lapse

Not going to rant. Going to let the video do the talking. Please click vimeo link to read all about it. Enjoy

Set Construction Time Lapse from Charlie Jay on Vimeo.

Final Set Construction Sequence.

Here it is. 4 weeks of work coming together from a collaboration of 10 photography students. Please read below for more details. Make up your own mind on what its about. Enjoy.

Another Mr Toledano.

Another image from Phillip Toledano's Arctic Circle series... Very nice indeed.

It's Nice That.

A friends wonderful blog -heirstoall- led me to this awesome website It's Nice That. Well worth a look. I found this gentlemen on there while browsing earlier. Nice piece of imagery by Phillip Toledano

Jeff Rich

Garden, North Toe River, Spruce Pine, North Carolina, 2007 — from the series Watershed by JEFF RICH

FLAK.

Recommended by a friend...FLAKPHOTO is amazing.. loads of images bundled together selected to be seen by viewers. An awesome idea. First discovery... Etching, Lake Superior, Wisconsin, 2009 by Lisa Robinson

Set Construction

For the last few weeks our year have been divided into 4 groups of 9-10 people to create something very different to what any other photography course does in the UK. We have been working together on a set construction project that involves building a 'room with a view' in a studio, shooting it with large format cameras and destroying it within the space of a few weeks. The projects have to be original and ambitious.

Our group came up with the idea of a conspiracy theorists basement, filled with posters, newspaper cuttings and random old objects. It really is amazing how far we have come in just a couple of weeks of stress, development, joy, arguments, relief and tension. Here is a sneak preview of one of our images from yesterdays shoot.

Thanks to our group - April Chesters, Caitlin Macrae, Dom Doran, Hitomi Yusa, Katie Noonan, Lee Jackson, Matt Caldaralo, Sarah Perkins and Vicky Parker. Also thanks to our model - Andy Banks.

Await time lapse of the past few weeks when its all complete on wednesday...

Pathways

Found a pretty special little place on saturday. Shot on Kodak Portra 160NC 5x4 Sheet Film.

Delphic.

Saw these guys last sunday, pretty epic to say the least. An epic set of tunes and a very clever marketing technique have made these guys big quickly. Well worth a look.

Basilico.

Recently re-discovered my love for the series - Silicon Valley, 07 by Gabriele Basilico. I saw the exhibition at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) 2 years back and WOW! Its epic. I purchased the book early last year and it is just short of incredible. Amazing survey of an area of total unfamiliarity by one of the greatest Urban Landscape photographers. Well worth a look.

Snow!

An epic little video by high-rolling death defying photog/video guru that goes by the name of Mickey Smith. Fun and well worth the watch.

Snow Virgins from mickey smith on Vimeo.

FEVER DREAM!

Fever dream the musical is about to premiere on Australian shores.. Looks siiiick. Can't wait to see it. Noice on Maddog and crew! Yoo Boyyy!

FEVER DREAM the musical from FLAMES YATES on Vimeo.

She farted...

..and created the world.
A cool little animation a friend showed me.. Well worth the watch. Read the description as well, pretty interesting technique.

She Farted And Created The World from Scott Coello on Vimeo.

Football.

As much as i dislike the sport itself, i have an ongoing passion of floodlit pitches at night. I managed to find a really nice all-weather set up on the way out of Plymouth at Laira Community College. I set up my camera about an hour and a half before dark and took a few shots, on medium & large format (all on my Sinar f2 54 camera). I kept playing around with lenses and formats until it got dark and managed to get a pretty cool triptych using the three 5x4 shots i took. As Darkness Falls... The last two shot on roll film in a 6x9 back.

Quarries.

Managed to get myself out into the hideous winter weather to take this shot at home over the Christmas period.
Shot on Kodak Portra 160nc 5x4 sheet film.

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