Ruth Jones

Thursday, 27 February 2014

Creativity in ALL of your life, not just creative moments.

Yesterday I made this video, whilst driving home and deciding to practice creativity in all the areas of my life. Creativity can be boxed in, to specific projects, meetings, and moments where creativity is "acceptable"... but what will happen if you start to live a lifestyle of creativity? I've been taking photographs every day since 2011, so that has seen me develop a lot as a photographer; so finding creativity in all areas of your life will do the same no doubt.

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Monday, 11 November 2013

Mamiya vs Holga - Skegness off Season

Mamiya RZ-67

Holga 120N

I own two very different medium format cameras; a high-end Mamiya RZ-67 that is used by professionals and known for it's high quality sharp and crisp images, and a Holga.. a plastic toy camera well known for it's soft, vignetted, "lomo" images.

I recently got negatives from both developed, the Mamiya ones being from my last shoot in Skegness and the Holga's being from a trip to wales... I was surprised at how much I fell in love with the Holga's images, it's imperfections bought so much character and mood to the photographs. Seeing the two different sets of negatives challenged me on my choice of camera for this project, and I am now considering taking my Holga on my next trip to Skeggy to see if it is a good choice to swap to this toy camera for the project.

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Thanks to IdeasTap for funding this project with the IdeasFund

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Wednesday, 30 October 2013

In Action - Skegness Off Season

I met & interviewed a photographer (Richard Franklin) whilst shooting in Skegness on Sunday and he just sent me through this photo that he took of me whilst I was setting up a shot! I didn't realise he had photographed me, so recieving this in my Inbox was a nice surprise!

Sunday, 27 October 2013

Skegness Off Season. Shoot 1.

I've been in Skegness today, fighting the sand filled wind so that I could finally make a start on my Off Season project - a photo documentary (with a multimedia video twist), that explores the very popular Seaside Resort in it's winter months.

Skegness receives over 4million visitors each year, that generates over £480million in tourism.. yet it has some of the most severely deprived costal communities in the UK. (BBC) By going in the winter I want to dig past the summer holidays facade it often holds up, I want to understand what Skegness if really like.

Today's shoot went well, I've only been once before.. but it is a town I am very familiar with as many of my friends visited Skeggy on holidays and day trips. From my visit today I have been able to understand how I can go about creating a strong documentary piece, and I am very excited to step into this project and explore Skegness underneath the facade.

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Thanks to IdeasTap for funding this project with the IdeasFund