Glass Swan. 22nd September.

Apple in the hand. 21st August.

I decided to have a quick shoot today which was a little bit inspired by the cover of the "Twilight" novel. The photo isn't amazing and when I get my studio set up I will try and shoot some high contrast "Twilight" style photographs as I love the tone and feel within the book covers.

If you are not familiar with Twilight book covers here are some samples:

(I do not own these images or copyright to them)

All-Stars. 12th June.

A product shot of Converse All-Stars shoes. 

Memories of Frogs. 16th May.

You know when you're younger and there are those little items you see round the house or at your grandparents, and somehow they stick in your memory... well these frogs are one of those things. They belonged to my Nana and Grandad, I used to go round their house when I was a little girl and I was nosey, so I used to sneak in their bedroom and look at my Nana's jewellery.. these frogs were on her jewellery desk, I loved the different poses and expressions they had and all these years on they have somehow stuck with me in my head. Now both my Nana and Grandad have passed away I have inherited these little figurines, they may be worthless to most people.. but to me they capture the essence of the trips I had to my grandparent's as a little girl!

Hidden in the Corner. 19th March.

I found this gas mask hidden in the corner of my shed today, I have no idea how long it's been their for, or why it's there. A simple small object like this gas mask could have so many stories to tell, stories which we will never know. 

Cheap Perfume. 13th March.

This bottle of cheap faded perfume was sitting on one of my shelves; it reminded me of when I was a young teenager getting "glammed up" for a party and putting on the crazy make-up, the garish clothes, the cheap perfume.... It was all taken so seriously, maybe a little bit too seriously.

The Perfume Bottle. 7th of November.

I found a perfume bottle today! My brother gave it to me for a birthday ages ago! I thought it would work well for my daily photo and I decided to be a little bit experimental with it. I used a small LED torch and shined it at the bottle from different angles, this photograph came out of my experimenting, and even if I say so myself.. it is cool!

I did a couple more architectural interiors today, I have now finished working on my architecture brief, but I do enjoy architectural photography... and if you know anyone who is looking for an architectural photographer give me a shout! 

The Bronze Man. 31st October.

Today has been full of essay writing! I do the silly thing where I intend to get everything written at the start of a week, but I leave it right until the end to do it! Anyway... back to today's photograph! I was asked to photograph this Bronze Statue, so I photographed it today, experimented with using a white backdrop whilst keeping a lot of contrast within the photograph, quite a lot harder than I thought it was... but it was a good learning curve! I am starting to really appreciate product/still life photography and I am considering buying some studio equipment (the equipment I am currently using is on loan). 

In other news I'm off to London tomorrow (again!) I will be working on an architecture brief, but I may be able to get some more photography on the Occupy London Stock Exchange Protest... depending on time etc... I have also started to become interested in the Critical Mass movement, basically once a month a group of people meet together in cities around the world and travel around the city on self-propelled transport. 

Toys at War #2. 29th October.

Today I did some more work on my Toy Soldier project, one of the shoots I did was to impersonate a photograph by Matthew Naythons, I worked for a while over this shot trying to get the lighting and angle right. I only have a few more scenes to shoot and then I just need to start sorting out the photographs and deciding which shall be final for the series!

Incan Treasures. 24th October.

I have been photographing a collection of Inca Treasures today. They are really amazing items all crafted from clay and so intricately designed, and for items which are thousands of years old they are so well preserved. Photographing items like these is a lot harder than it looks, you have to light them so that the details are highlighted and still well defined, you have to find an angle which represents the item fairly and you also have to learn how to work with the materials which the items are made from. I do enjoy working spending time thinking about how to photograph a subject though, and this was a great project.

More photographs from the shoot can be found here: Antique Product Photography.