Natural Light Photographers Portfolios.

Definition: 

Natural light is an occurrence as a result of chemical processes on or in the earth. The benefits of using natural light rather than artificial is it doesn't cost in fuel, chemical reactions that produce natural light are limitless and free. Sometimes it can be difficult to use it with photography because not every area gets the same amount of sunlight all through the day. These are just the two main types of light, you can forget all the other types you can use. 

[[ California Hills]]

Joseph Holmes's

Kensington, California

Holmes has his own website with hundreds of images in fourteen different portfolios, not only images but information about imaging workshops that he teaches. He focused on doing photography expressing the beauty of nature for thirty-seven years and thirty years spent on pursual of colour photographic print making. The day and age we are in now has limitless flexibility of digital processes that there is no desist in the individuality and amplitude with the prints we can make. 

        The pictures on his portfolio are easy to browse through and are of all great quality. Unfortunately a lot of natural photography isn't that inspiring to me, I would like to see more portrait pictures with natural light. What is exhilarating about these photos is the intense colours Holmes has achieved in each picture.

[[Mr & Mrs Davidson]]

Steven Bailey Photography

Manchester

Steve and Alex are husband and wife and specialize in Weddings, Portraits, Proms, and Nurseries. Their website is a collaboration of their favorite pictures. Unlike a lot of wedding photographers the mages are heavily photoshopped but that gives them a modern feel. Their philosophy and over all view of what wedding photography is supposed to be like, is to capture your memories and emotions from your perfect day. 

        The portfolio has a good variety of examples of what type of photographs they take and definitely doesn't bore you. The intense photoshop takes away some of the natural light beauty and is a little distracting from what's happening in the picture. They portray identity in each picture and you can tell that they are professional. 

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Robin Goodland

Britain

Photography is his passion and was his fire from a young age, like many photographers it's his way of expressing his self and capturing that natural beauty of landscapes. He is now a member of Royal Photographic Society, The Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers, and The Photography Institute. He doesn't use any colour filters and only edits fine tune exposure and balance on Photoshop, he believes hat with landscape photography "what you should see naturally is exactly what you get".

       Out of the three portfolios I have looked at using natural photography Goodland's is my favorite, he sticks to a theme, has exceptional image quality, and extremely professional. The website could be made more modern looking but most of the prints are centralized towards the middle class of people. I like the way he doesn't only sell himself but you can buy his prints straight off the website, he also sells canvas prints. 

CHECK OUT MY PORTFOLIO:

www.wix.com/freyarrandle/photography

More Macro Experiments.

Studio Photography After Photoshop.

Katie With High Key Photography.

Macro Experiments With Tom.

And More Studio Photography.

More Studio Photgraphy.

Studio Photography.

High Key Photography.

Should I Be Kept On This Course?

I have realized over the past five years that photography and art are my passion. I have been surrounded by photography since I was a baby because both my mother and father are artists and have done a lot of work with different mediums of photography. My mother was the photography and digital design teacher at my school, as well as the arts teacher. She taught me a lot about Photoshop and how to take a great picture in a studio and outside. I took more art lessons than that in photography but believe that they are closely connected. 

            One of my favourite local artists is David Hockney and his photomontage of a town square. It was different and made me realize that you can turn a whole bunch of pictures into an interesting piece of art. I also enjoy his other pictures of simple English fields and people looking out onto the trees and grass. These pictures may seem dull to some people but that simplicity drew me in. I felt tranquillity when looking at the 10ft by 10ft pictures of sheep pastures and blue sky.

            It’s not only the landscape photography that draws me in but that glamour side of famous portraits of celebrities. One of my favourite photographers is Guy Webster, whom I have met and shot with. He has shot the likes of Michael Caine and Mick Jagger, amongst many other starts. What fascinates me is what you as a photographer have to do when taking a picture of someone. Your not taking a picture to show only what they look like but you have to capture the story behind each picture.

            Like painting a picture, when you take a photo you have to think about colour, composition, and experiment with it until it’s interesting and draws people in visually and emotionally.  Unlike painting, a lot of the time you have to do business with and communicate clearly your ideas to people. There is a fine line between a good picture and a bad picture and to be a good photographer every snap counts. I dig working with people rather than working alone and feel I have a natural way of dominating the situation. Even when it seems daunting working with the general public the satisfaction of a great picture is worth it.           

            Even though I relish doing art I think that a picture can tell a deeper story, and in some cases can create an everlasting imprint on someone’s life. Art is beautiful but people relate to images better because it’s easier to imagine the emotion and augmentation behind a picture. My brain is wired as an artist and I can’t wait to account my creativity into the world of photography and follow in my mother’s footsteps. 

STREET PHOTOGRAPHY.

Ref- (http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=street+photography&um=1&hl=en&safe=active&client=safari&sa=N&rls=en&biw=1024&bih=843&tbm=isch&tbnid=SJ-3vWZFuMogrM:&imgrefurl=http://www.bbc.co.uk/nottingham/content/image_galleries/stephen_wright_street_photography_gallery.shtml&docid=FdlbsblJ9PQC1M&w=470&h=394&ei=BYmETv3LOYmo8QO2p5gq&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=740&vpy=280&dur=65&hovh=206&hovw=245&tx=121&ty=90&page=1&tbnh=166&tbnw=198&start=0&ndsp=16&ved=1t:429,r:7,s:0)

This is a picture I took off of google as an example of street photography. Using the streets of a city as your back ground, capturing the life of the busy streets and creating visually  appealing pictures with the angles of buildings and streets.

Stop Mo. with Tony Baker.

Architechture.

Pinhole.

I experimented with pinhole cameras for the first time at college using already made pinhole cameras that the teacher had made. It was a really fun experience but many of the pictures didn't develop apart from one that developed really well and was my fist time trying it.

Photograms.

A photogram is a fixed shadow of three-dimensional object on a light-sensitive material. There is controversy as to whether the photogram is it's own medium. Part of the scope of www.photogram.org is to strengthen the medial independency of the photogram as a shadow picture. Everybody know's the strange feeling watching for the first time his own body as a photogram on an x-ray. Sometimes the technique is also called "shadography" or "rayograph". This process can be easily re-created at home, in a darkroom the paper is briefly exposed to light and later developed.

Here are a couple of my experimental photograms we did in our college darkroom.

Painting With Light.

Death..Page for the scrapbook.

There were a couple themes to choose from and I choose death. I have always had a fascination with the 'Day of the Dead' (http://spanish.about.com/cs/culture/a/dayofdead.htm) a Mexican celebration, in October, where the dead are given offerings. It's a spirited and colourful gathering of family and friends to pray for and remember their loved ones that have passed.  It's believed that when loved ones pass they enter the 'afterlife' and so offerings of food and beautifully painted candy skulls are contributed outside their homes on altars. This holiday originated in the Latin American traditions but has spread all over the world and is famed in America and even in some places in Europe. I particularly enjoyed this festival because at home in California the air would smell of Mexican food, the colourful altars, and the beer would be flowing. Death doesn't have to be all doom and gloom. It reminds us that we have to appreciate life and all it's beauty. This is my first page in my scrapbook which is for colour scenes and pictures we've taken or pictures we like from the web. I like all the colours, it keeps your eye busy and even though it's about death you wouldn't guess that is was. I don't like the way the images are placed on the page, they seem sloppy and don't flow well. I like the life and death contrast and how death is hidden away in the common world but in Mexican culture it is celebrated as much as a baby being born.

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Image merging with ToNy BaKeR