I came in to uni one afternoon and was asked by my tutor Richard to sit down with Carlton, a practising professional photography who had come in exspecially to offer his help and guidance with the third year students. Richard asked me to show him my work I had done whilst visiting the isle of Arran just off Scottish main land. I had no idea I was going to be sitting down with Carlton, so I wasn't really prepared for a tutorial. I hadn't even met Carlton before ,so I wasn't sure how he would react to my finished images, however Richard had given me really positive feedback from the work I had produced, so I felt I had an excellent set of images to show him and this gave me some much needed confidence.
I started off by showing Carlton several of my images from flickr and the set I had produced on the isle of Arran. Below is the link to my flick set, I showed Carlton during the tutorial.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/emma_ruth_holt_photography/sets/72157629399017825/
above is an image grab, of my set of images I have produced whilst on the isle of Arran.
Carlton really gave me a great deal of positive feed back on my images, this filled me with a lot of confidence, as I can be be extremely hard on myself and I had been feeling a little down for the past few days. I always want to strive to do the best I can but I am never happy with the work I produce. I was even more unhappy about my work as I had spent a lot of money and time visiting the island, so for me I wanted my work to be excepted for what it was and I hoped that I had achieved a level of competence with the technical and emotional connection I had made.
Richard had told me that I mine work had reached a level where I didn't need to explain why I had done certain things, why I had captured the subject matter in a certain way, as my work spoke for itself. This had made me feel really proud of the finished work I had produced and Carlton only reiterated what Richard had said.
Carlton explained that there was a certain stillness and atmosphere to my work and suggested me to look at the work of Thomas Joshiua Cooper.
This made perfect sense to me ,as Carlton showed me some of his work, we both agreed that there were a certain stillness to his work too.
Carlton went onto look through other images on my flickr account including the photographs taken whilst I was in South Africa. He seemed impressed and asked me what were my influences. I explained that the master's such as Ansel Adams, Laura Gilpin and Fay Godwin influenced my work greatly, but also the contemporary photographers such as, Sally Waterman, Kate Mellor, Paul Galagher and Josh Goss. Carlton was pleasantly surprised that I am interested in the work of Josh Goss and his contemporary portraiture. Carlton had never heared of the work he had produced and explained that he found the fact that I also looked at portraiture for inspiration as excellent. I told him that I loved portraiture, just that my passion lied in landscape photography but that I try to put my hand to various different genres of photography including contemporary portraiture and wedding photography.
Carlton really found my work I produced for the Cape Town exhibition really interesting and asked where I would see myself in the future and what work I aspire to produce. I explained my plans for landscape workshops and how I sell los of my landscape prints to venues and restraunts.
After the end of tutorial, I felt really motivated and pleased with the comments Carlton made. He was postive about my work I had prduced and really seemed impressed.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/emma_ruth_holt_photography/sets/72157629399017825/
Carlton really gave me a great deal of positive feed back on my images, this filled me with a lot of confidence, as I can be be extremely hard on myself and I had been feeling a little down for the past few days. I always want to strive to do the best I can but I am never happy with the work I produce. I was even more unhappy about my work as I had spent a lot of money and time visiting the island, so for me I wanted my work to be excepted for what it was and I hoped that I had achieved a level of competence with the technical and emotional connection I had made.
Richard had told me that I mine work had reached a level where I didn't need to explain why I had done certain things, why I had captured the subject matter in a certain way, as my work spoke for itself. This had made me feel really proud of the finished work I had produced and Carlton only reiterated what Richard had said.
Carlton explained that there was a certain stillness and atmosphere to my work and suggested me to look at the work of Thomas Joshiua Cooper.
This made perfect sense to me ,as Carlton showed me some of his work, we both agreed that there were a certain stillness to his work too.
Carlton went onto look through other images on my flickr account including the photographs taken whilst I was in South Africa. He seemed impressed and asked me what were my influences. I explained that the master's such as Ansel Adams, Laura Gilpin and Fay Godwin influenced my work greatly, but also the contemporary photographers such as, Sally Waterman, Kate Mellor, Paul Galagher and Josh Goss. Carlton was pleasantly surprised that I am interested in the work of Josh Goss and his contemporary portraiture. Carlton had never heared of the work he had produced and explained that he found the fact that I also looked at portraiture for inspiration as excellent. I told him that I loved portraiture, just that my passion lied in landscape photography but that I try to put my hand to various different genres of photography including contemporary portraiture and wedding photography.
Carlton really found my work I produced for the Cape Town exhibition really interesting and asked where I would see myself in the future and what work I aspire to produce. I explained my plans for landscape workshops and how I sell los of my landscape prints to venues and restraunts.
After the end of tutorial, I felt really motivated and pleased with the comments Carlton made. He was postive about my work I had prduced and really seemed impressed.
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