Jim Goldberg documented his daughter Ruby from the first day of school all the way to graduation at college, taking one photograph on the first day of school every year. I love this work as it shows the transformation of Ruby and the way the work has been put together in a collage really makes you feel like you are looking back into someones life. Goldberg arranged next the the images of Ruby drawings she did that day and the clothes she wore. Goldberg used this opportunity to create something more than just photography, he created a very personal historical document using different materials to really show what Ruby got up to in her school life. 
Goldberg uses available light for all of the images in this story, probably to show exactly what everyday was like, if he used artificial light it would not give the same effect when looking back in context of an archival record of her life.
This work has really inspired me to do something similar such as document someone or maybe my own life while at University...  

FileZilla is a software in which you can upload images on to a internet server, for anyone to view who logs into that server. FTP stands for File Transfer Protocol which basically means file upload, it uploads at quite a fast speed around 1 mbps which is a normal JPEG image in about 3 or 4 seconds. The reason we use this software to upload our images from our assignments so that the tutor can see all our work whenever and where ever they want. It also gives an understanding of how in the industry they work so fast when shooting on location mainly for press organisations. I think this software is very easy to use and you can connect to it very fast also you can create different Directories which means you can separate your work into folders to keep it tidy.

​Below is a screen shot of my Filezilla application.

The Stow Gypsy fair was a very enjoyable experience, i got to meet a few individuals and heard what they think about the fair and why it is important. The people all seemed very pasionate about their tradtion and loved to pose for photos, I was expecting a bit more of a challenge when it came to photographing them but most were more than happy.
The amount of random bits and bobs they sold made me realise their way of living, they would sell pretty much anything to get money, from shoes to shooting jackets and live stock to caravans. The people seemed to be in expensive designer clothes which shows they are quite well off and they like to look good most of the time.
I tried to capture the day in these six images, the people, what they were selling and how it was all sold. I used a combination of flash and a small aperture to fill in the shadows on the peoples faces and bring out detail in their clothes. for the still life images available light was used as it was overcast and the light was even and soft which made quite nice shooting conditions.    

Contact sheets of all the images take at the Horse fair, I need to go through them and sort out which ones i think are the best, save them as .jpg and upload 6 to FTP server.

​Amazing lecture to watch, Cook tells his experiences while traveling the world and documenting what he lived with and the stories he made. A lot of knowledge on why to photograph, how to photograph people and what to use... Cooks talks about available light and the use of tripod.

Since 714 AD Stow On Wold is the location for a Gypsy horse fair which has a history for trade and travellers. Stow is located at the convergence of eight railways meaning it was a perfect meeting point for people to trade who were travelling from all around the country. The railways connected Wales, Midlands and the Thames valley, so the influence this place had on trade was very important.  Back in the 8th centry when trade and markets were booming Stow would typically be trading salt from Droitwich, Charcoal and iron from the Forest of Dean and fish from The Seven.
In 1107 the abbot of Evesham appealed to Henry 1 in 1107 for official recognition of the market in Stow  and it was readily granted. This meant the people of Stow now had the right to hold their market every Thursday this continued fro 800 years and stopped in the 20th century. 
1476 a charter for two fairs to take place, one on May 12th and the second on October 24th. These are the dates used for the Gypsy horse fair now. 
Today the Gypsy horse fair is held in a big field down the road from the square, it still attracts a lot of people who want to trade but also people like myself, Photographers. 

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Kenneth O'holloran documented fairs in Ireland he saw the events as rather than just trade, they are very social and cultural and bring a lot of people together for a 800 year plus tradition. The images below are from Muff fair, County Cavan.
 I think this work really looks into the cultural aspect of the fair, O'holloran has captured images of people wearing brightly coloured clothes which are not typically everyday wear, this can emphasise the fact that this day is very important for them and they want to be acknowledged but on the other hand none of them are smiling and seems like they don't want a picture to be taken this is called 'Dead pan' meaning no emotion.
all the images seem to have been captured using just available light but the subject has been positioned very carefully, not many shadows on face, exposed for skin tone. A low F/stop has been used to achieve this effect allowing for more light and also creating a shallow depth of field meaning the subject has been isolated from the background. 

Speed light flash is a very fun and useful technique which after using for 10 minutes I got the hang of it. I positioned the subjects in different lighting conditions to get slightly different results, using a shutter speed of 125th of a second i could freeze the subject resulting in sharpness and the flash brought out the detail on the subject. Using a small aperture of F/22 everything is in sharp focus, this also means i exposed for the sky and then used the flash to light the foreground, resulting in a very contrasty image in which the subject has been separated from the background. I love the out come of these images and wish to use flash where ever possible, its also quite easy to use on the TTL setting.

I came across a street artist/band/rap group called 'Motion Enterprise' The group was in a underpass playing loud music and cooking food on a barbecue in the corner. I spoke to the group and they had no problem with photographs of their work or of themselves. They sprayed a new 'tag' on the wall and the paint was still wet so felt like i had to photograph it. The underpass had quite low light so i had to use flash, I used the diffuser cards so the light would not be too harsh and bounced the flash off of the ceiling. I think I am going to make good use of the flash and especially bounce flash as lighting something from above is a good way to evenly spread the light on to any surface or subject. I also like how using the flash brings out every detail in the surface and really makes the colours pop.  

Exposure compensation is a way of making an image brighter or darker. The light meter in the viewfinder indicates if the light coming into the lens is too bright or too weak depending on a few factors, shutter speed, aperture and ISO. A correctly exposed image would show on the light meter with the indicator line in the middle, if its underexposed the indicator line will be to the left e.g. -1. If the image is over exposed the indicator will be to the right e.g. +1. This can be used as a technique to underexpose the background whilst keeping the foreground correctly exposed, if the image was a portrait then this technique would make the subject in the foreground pop. I enjoyed experimenting with this and I will be using it in combination with other techniques such as flash. 

When photographing the New York subway, Davidson had to prepare him self. He was not used to this environment when photographing, he had to 'prepare' himself to go into the subway and start taking pictures, he tried getting more physically fit and prepare for any situation he may encounter while making his work. He saw the graffiti on the walls as a mark of territory and because he did not understand the graffiti so he did not feel like he was safe or in that area.

Davidson used a variety of techniques while photographing on the subway, due to the poor lighting conditions of the dark underground with only a few strip lights above the subjects he had the fill in the shadows and change the type of light in there, so fill in flash worked perfectly and Davidson seems to underexpose the background slightly by using an F/stop of around F/22 resulting in the vignette around the images but consequently very sharp images which the colours really pop and the shadows create very sharp edges. Amazing! 

Changing the image size to 10x8 inches, for FTP upload. easy process, this took me a few minutes to get used to and now i can do it to any image.

The Tewksbury MOP fair was very fast pace with low lighting and a lot of people walking about, and it was very noisy with all the music playing and people talking. While photographing this event on Friday I focused on getting shots of what the overall atmosphere was like. I thought I worked well with the flash, I was fast enough to set it up and expose correctly for the first image below. What i didn't like about the fair is that it was quite fast pace and people were constantly moving so it was hard to get portraits so I decided to go 'candid' and I got a few nice shots of people caught off guard which I think was successful. Overall it was an enjoyable day out and I got to experience a lot of new things photographically such as using flash on location and candid street.  

I created 5 contact sheets from all the images I made at Tewksbury, I created them in photoshop CC by going to ~file~Automate~contact sheet II. I then selected the best ones and processed them in photoshop CC, changed the image size and resolution ready to be sent off to the FTP server.

Lewis Hine was born in 1874 in Wisconsin and was a well know american documentary photographer who focused on the social issues of the time, such as child labour. in 1908 Hine became a photographer for the national child labour committee, and over the next decade he documented the lives of the children who work unethical hours in some of the most dangerous and extreme conditions for a small amount of money. his understanding and perspective put a completely different image in peoples heads when they saw the images of the labourers. He achieved this by capturing the workers at a time they were working very hard. Hines work was often very dangerous, he had been threatened by police and owners of the place of work. at the time Child labour was a thing that was hidden from the public and photography and Hine in particular exposed the hell out of the industry and the big businesses, and this work got him in extreme trouble with the press and authorities. The way Hine gained access was by acting as someone with authority too, he acted as a Fire inspector, post card vendor, Bible salesmen and he also said he was a photographer who kept record of the factory’s machines and architecture. I really admire this work as it was a factor in the change of law  to do with how young you could be to work. Even though this work was made a long time ago it has given me many ideas to photograph around Gloucester docks, the people working and living down there, because it looks like a quite industrial area and i’d love to get some images like this that really set the scene of industrial work and maybe see why they got children to do this type of labour. also the buildings at Gloucester docks were built late 1800’s and were most likely used for child labour before the Great War. After looking at these images i’ve noticed that there is a lot of ambient light filling the frame and the use of a flash would be very minimal, he may have used a flash on the last image of the man holding the wrench but he had a very good consideration of the position of natural light and composed his pictures around it. ​

http://www.paulsebastiansmith.com/mystartingpointforeverybreath/bjo56z65vtitbizrgdd64xzleix0lr

In 2014 on average three pubs in Britain are closing down every week, one  pub that is not only surviving but also growing during this time is the Land Of Liberty, Peace and Plenty, the site of an ale-house for almost two hundred you situated on the edge of Chorleywood, Hertfordshire, and an important centre to the local community. 
Regular local and county winner of the Campaign for Real Ale Pub of the year award, the pub is a popular meeting point for friends, colleagues as well as a source of information and support on many issues including finance, car maintenance, and recipes. 

​http://lizhingley.com/the-jones-family/

http://hillerphoto.com/early-work-1972-1975/united-states---europe-1970--1973/