Salmonsfest | Vicky Holmes

Towards the end of August, my sister and I travelled to Monmouth, Wales to go to Salmonsfest - held at the Three Salmons Hotel. The day turned out to be really nice after the rain we experienced on our travels. We some how ended up incredibly close to the front of the crowd and I managed to capture a fair few photos of the evening. I thought all of the bands were great and I also got to see my brother's band, Chasing Grace, perform.

These are a few of the images that I took during the evening.

I realise that they are not the best images that could be taken at a show with live music, but I am still learning new things about photography and its techniques everyday. 

The Sky | Vicky Holmes

The sky is something I completely love when it isn't covered in dull cloud. I like to look up and see different things around in the sky: birds, rainbows, planes etc. Here are a few of my weather pics - unfortunately I was unable to capture any images of the crazy thunderstorm in July...

London Montages | Vicky Holmes

As part of one of my college projects, I had to interpret my own meaning of the word "montages" and create montages from that meaning. I believe that montage or collage photography is whatever you want it to be. I think that montages should be similar to those that Serge Mendzhiyskogo and David Hockney creates however, if you think differently then you could be right also.

For this project, I decided to follow in Serge Mendzhiyskogo's footsteps and shoot around the City of London from the London Eye, to Westminster, to Piccadilly Circus. Although being a little lopsided, I think that the montages that I have created are fairly interesting from a different point of view than only one image.

London Eye Montage:

Piccadilly Circus Montage:

Westminster Montage:

London | Vicky Holmes

Living in London can be a good thing and a bad thing in my opinion. I feel like I am not as grateful for everything that people are so excited about because I see tourist attractions so frequently when going around London.

I went into London a couple of weeks back with my college to visit Somerset House and the National Portrait Gallery. After that, we went off in groups and took some photographs...

College Images | Vicky Holmes

I have been studying digital and film photography at college for almost a year now and I have almost finished my first year. I have learnt a lot more about cameras and how to use them over this past year and I think that it has helped me a lot. 

We have done a load of different projects and assignments of different photography genres that I feel I tried my best to complete. I think that my three favourite assignments this year were, experimenting with light:

The first three images were taken by me and the last two were taken by two of my class mates.

These images have not been edited in any way at all as I felt that experimental images shouldn't be photoshopped. If I were to photoshop them, I would make sure that they have as little light as possible as it is meant to be in the dark.

My second favourite project this year was editorial photography, where all of my images were taken in the studio. There were five parts to this project and I am showing my favourite images overall. None of these images have been edited in any way. I felt that as I got further through this project, I was getting better at how to handle and use the lighting equipment in the studio.

 

    

 
         
 





















































My third favourite project this year was the indoor/outdoor fashion location shoots. I put a bit of a twist on it and based it around the photography of Elliott Erwitt where I edited my images so that they were black and white with strong contrasts and tones. These were my favourite images from this project:

I think that these images show the difference between a change in light conditions and the effect that they can make to an image on a location shoot. The majority of my images were shot landscape as I felt there was a lot to capture. Some of my lighting could be more controlled using the brightness/contrast/exposure/levels in Photoshop.