Work in Progress*

PHOTOGRAPHY
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Last weekend I had the pleasure of photographing at St. Bees with a lovely girl called Morgan and her mam Adele. I have just spent most of the week editing and uploading the images to my flickr account.

See more images in the Morgan at St. Bees set here.

NEW BLOG
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Unfortunately, for some time I have had no internet connection in my flat, I am hoping to get it sorted within the next few weeks.

I am still between two blogs at the moment having found limitations with the www.sarahfrance.com/blog wordpress template, I have decided I am going to keep posting here and hopefully keep the updates flowing.

My website is currently having data inputted and should be back up and running very soon. My good friend Andi has been applying a new template by which I am just thrilled!

Currently, I am working on:

01. My new logo and how it may animate on my websites intro page
02. Also an identity re-vamp for this blog
03. Inputting data into my new gridified website
04. Completing stationary for my sisters wedding invites
05. Creating two more titles for Fault Magazine
06. Expanding on my photographic knowledge
and much more…working full-time

So, I thought I would leave my readers with some new photography from just this weekend. So stay tuned for more updates.

I have been very lucky to have a selection of images featured on Flickr Explore. Flickr is one of the best creative networks, not only keeping you in touch with other like-minded creatives, but also keeping the inspirational juices flowing.

Here is just one of my images they considered “interestingness”

After having little look with my first lomography reel, i am please that my 2nd reel has actually came out with some relatively well balanced exposures. Learning from past experiences, not much lighting means under-exposure even if the built in flash is on, i ensured that all my new snaps were taken in full natural daylight.

Slowly i am becoming more confident, judging the subject and it’s distance. Although i admit, when it comes to the Lomography Fisheye 2 camera i have a lot to learn!

Enthused

…and Sky

Whenever possible, although projects like this are on hold, i still try to carry on experimenting. This piece is very dark and sinister, but sometimes you have to try out certain effects to fathom out if they are going to be successful. It is okay coming up with an idea/concept, in theory it will always work - in practice thats another matter.

Out of the 2 images i prefer the sweeping image (top) - i can imaging it would look very clean on the back of a business card, but i’m looking for something more apt. This is another experiment i can cross off the list! And who knows it may come in for another project…

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Today I had the pleasure of babysitting my nephew from the early morning until late afternoon. Having a little time on my hands, I caught him off guard while he was engrossed on the Wii, then whilst waiting on images exporting from InDesign I manipulated the capture.

Manipulation: Overlay/desaturation/colour selection

On my Flickr account, I have just added a Portrait section, here are just 2 examples.

Wedding photographs taken for a friend.
Model: Owen France
Copyright © 2007 Sarah France

Today I played with the idea of portraits and how the technique of the old traditions could be modified; incorporating photography and sketch techniques to create an illustrative piece. The word AWAY was added as Basketball was in mind, but instead, the portrait could contain their name.

The type could do with a some black taken away, and a lot of re-adjustment. I focused more on the portrait itself, added the type last, will come back to this and re-post changes.

Copyright © 2007 Sarah France