tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-90220623788970288212012-02-23T23:28:06.741ZLiving the student life, studying photography, and enjoying life to the maxEmmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03747781543019669284noreply@blogger.comBlogger431100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022062378897028821.post-58594562839411601042012-02-23T23:28:00.000Z2012-02-23T23:28:06.747Z

Whew! It's been a busy time lately, but after a long wait the website is up! It's been up a little while already, I've just not gotten around to announcing it here with everything else that's going on! http://www.emmaseyeview.co.uk The blog is also located there now with even better content on the way, so this one will no longer be written in. I'll leave it up for archival purposes though :)

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Today I sit here writing this at a desk that overlooks Trafalgar Square. There, a huge, luminous orange sun installation is on display. It's what brought me here, and it made for a fantastic start to the day! My journey started yesterday, coming all the way from the hills and valleys of South Wales to the bustling metropolis that is central London. The journey here was pleasant and quite

Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03747781543019669284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022062378897028821.post-47703207038337537332011-07-30T15:23:00.001+01:002011-07-30T15:23:56.087+01:00

Erk, my blog has been a bit neglected as of late! A few things have changed since I last wrote. I've been working hard in college (I got a 1st in my last essay!), thinking up article ideas for Light Stalking, arranging test shoots and recently I've been pouring over my website and getting that done. I've come to realise that I really, really need my little bit of the web, and with my fairly basic

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Dawn Originally uploaded by Emma Brabrook I decided I'd do a little something today, just to take a photo. As I said on twitter last night, I felt like I was spending too much time waiting to be inspired and not enough time taking photos. I wanted to do something with a sheet, a window and the little spare room we have. So I cleared the room out, grabbed a sheet, caught the golden hour and I

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This was an idea that came to mind one evening, just for a bit of fun and something different. It morphed a bit from the original idea, which was to have the eye with the pattern peeping out between some hair. I messed my hair up to give the image more texture, and decided I liked it better this way :) View it larger over at Flickr! Planning page is here - Behold, my rushed handwriting. So,

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The Jabberwocky Originally uploaded by Emma Brabrook Stylist: Matthew Walker Model: Lauren Elizabeth Photography and Post Production: Me Here's Matt's final piece for his project, which he said took inspiration from alice in wonderland. I'd love to shoot an even crazier version of this on location at some point :D Behind the scenes from this post is coming soon, stay tuned :)

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It's been a couple of weeks since I went to this year's Focus on Imaging, and I had such a great time there. It was absolutely exhausting, but I learnt a decent amount of stuff, met people I'd met the year before and got some great new equipment! It was non-stop laughter, and we had lovely weather too as an added bonus. Taken at the Bowens stand at Focus on Imaging I was shocked when I heard

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If you've been following me on Twitter, you'll know I've had an eventful couple of days in the studio. So eventful in fact, I managed to really strain my legs, abs and pretty much everything else and spent most of Thursday walking around like an extremely ungraceful extra from Thriller. It's all because of my jumping around the studio (almost) tirelessly in a floaty white dress, all while

Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03747781543019669284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022062378897028821.post-75194964614832901432011-02-21T15:50:00.000Z2011-02-21T15:50:00.023Z

It's a bit of a long one this time, so grab a cup of tea and snuggle up and get comfy. Also, this is just how I do things. I've no doubt that other photographers work differently! Enjoy! ***** Coming up with ideas for fashion and fantasy themes is always fun. It's even better when one jumps out at you and gives you a dose of inspiration so large you end up grinning like an idiot. The most recent

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I'm a bit spoilt for choice as to what I can write about today, as so much is going on in my life right now it's starting to wear me down a little! Thankfully most things will be out of the way by the end of this week, but the tiny light at the end of the tunnel are the new ideas and projects that I can't wait to get started. Firstly, today myself and a few other second, third and first years

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I'm really happy as I write this as I've received my first two jobs to shoot weddings! The first is a wedding evening-do that takes place next week and the other is a ceremony in September. I'm so excited! I'm also a little nervous, but I know I'll be ok. They're all very lovely people and I can't wait to meet them. I'm really looking forwards to building a big portfolio of beautiful wedding

Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03747781543019669284noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022062378897028821.post-78197180802859694382011-01-14T11:44:00.000Z2011-01-14T11:44:08.764Z

So, as some of you may know already, I recently got myself a new lens! I saved up and got the lens I've wanted for a while - the Nikkor 24-70mm f2.8. So far, it's worth every penny I paid for it, and it keeps getting better and better. I decided to give you my thoughts on it so far, a mini first impressions review I suppose :) So what prompted me to get it? Well, aside from the obvious, recently

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This blog is well overdue for an update. I was so busy with my AoP project "Bag Lady" and getting it finished in time that most other things got pushed to the wayside. I had another project going on at the same time (group cinematics) which didn't help matters at all, as I had to juggle my time and be in two places at once. But, it got done in the end! I was also really, really ill when I was

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I'm currently curled up with my laptop, listening to Arcade Fire and writing this after a hard day's work. Today, while not entirely planned to pan out this way, was the first day of my Bag Lady shoot. I had to bring it forwards since the studio was pretty much all booked up for next week, and I'd already booked the large studio for today in case I needed it. Thankfully I found out about this a

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My latest projects are the AoP competition and a cinematic brief for college. The AoP is the one I'm pretty excited about, since it's a live project with a chance of winning. I didn't have a clue what I'd do for a while, and was busy with 365 Days jotting down ideas in my sketchbook. I did have one idea come to me however one night after looking through a friend's halloween dressing up photos on

Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03747781543019669284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022062378897028821.post-24834118961022806692010-10-20T21:22:00.007+01:002010-11-04T23:13:30.705Z

Well, it's the second week of 365 and I'm still going strong, I love this project so much. It really tests you and drives you to do better pictures. So yesterday, I was in the studio again, large tea and toast nearby while I got ready to set up. It was a lot of fun, and involved flowers, petals, glue and my face. And a ring flash. I've included images of the setup I had, along with failed photos

Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03747781543019669284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022062378897028821.post-25517575418453941502010-10-11T21:02:00.000+01:002010-10-11T21:02:22.712+01:00

Some of you may have heard of the 365 days challenge, and others might not have done. For those who don't know, there's a group on Flickr called "365 Days" where the sole aim of the group is to show a collection of images from several people all over the world who take one photo of themselves each day of the year (or as many as they can manage) and then upload it to the group. It doesn't have to

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Yesterday I figured I'd try a new self portrait, and I toyed around for a while with ideas, wondering what I'd do. I somehow came to the conclusion that a monsters theme would be a good idea. Maybe it has to do with various film trailers I've seen recently, or certain adverts on the internet, or the sudden influx of halloween merchandise in the shops, but I sat there smiling to myself as I

Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03747781543019669284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022062378897028821.post-60887223028166282272010-09-30T20:56:00.000+01:002010-09-30T20:56:33.915+01:00

Remember in my last post how I mentioned I'd be doing a self portrait? Well, I've got a self portrait, but this isn't the one I had in mind back then. That one is still on the way. False eyelashes are evil Here it is: Winter Faey As usual, click for a larger image. I'm not too sure where the idea came from, I just woke up and decided I'd do a self portrait that day. I think part of it was

Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03747781543019669284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022062378897028821.post-24818139049868059552010-09-01T22:19:00.002+01:002010-09-01T22:34:50.539+01:00

Recently I had an idea for a new shoot. This shoot will be different to my usual sort though...this time the model will be yours truly. It'll be a portrait kind of image, though my emphasis will remain strongly on fashion themes. So it's a lot less about me, and more about the final image. I'll just be sitting there looking dolled up to the nines. I'm hoping the images turn out the way I want

Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03747781543019669284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022062378897028821.post-89061851463918331932010-08-24T21:24:00.002+01:002010-08-25T00:12:40.957+01:00

Today has made me pretty happy! First of all, I got a brand new external HDD for a very reasonable price, and it's now blinking red and blue lights at me to tell me it's busy backing up all my work. It's very quiet too. And fast! I was rather desperate to get an external HDD since recently my internal HDD had announced it had problems and needed to be repaired. Alas, I couldn't do anything with

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If you've been following my blog, you'll know I went to Cardiff yesterday. The only thing I had planned was roughly how to get there and back, what I was taking with me and that I'd be meeting with a friend. I didn't know when I was coming back, but I figured it was going to be sometime before dinner or until I was tired of walking around. My day started with me getting up at 8, getting ready

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...for the duration of tomorrow, anyway. I wanted to be a teeny bit spontaneous and also wanted to take some photos of examples of symmetry and pattern in the city for my project, so what better place than Cardiff? I'll end up in Swansea at some point too, though not tomorrow. So, I'm going to get ready for a hike around the concrete jungle. I figured Cardiff would be a better option for me

Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03747781543019669284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022062378897028821.post-49271235276648315772010-08-11T13:19:00.000+01:002010-08-11T13:19:30.748+01:00

Life has a habit of throwing you curveballs from time to time. But I'm glad to say I'm back on track and producing more work! Remember those images I kept promising I had? Here are my favourites! Also, I resubmitted my Model Mayhem application the other night, and woke up to it approved and ready for work. So, before long I should have a few shoots with other MM users and models under my

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I'm free at last! I get my results for my last project on the 7th along with a summer assignment, so that'll be interesting to find out. I've been editing some past shoots since I did all the shortlisting in my project, so they'll be up after I've finished painting and decorating :) So yeah, I just thought I'd let you all know I'm still around and haven't forgotten about you :) To prove I do

Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03747781543019669284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022062378897028821.post-73344709821635599892010-05-18T11:02:00.003+01:002010-05-18T15:37:03.048+01:00

Today will be mostly spent editing, printing research, (hopefully) printing my recently edited photos and scanning in the negatives that I processed yesterday. I used 120 Black and White film, they seem to have turned out really well. I was panicking a little the other day since both studios are now unusable due to the smaller one being filled with tables, chairs and other random things and the

Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03747781543019669284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022062378897028821.post-26309753825446836362010-05-14T12:35:00.000+01:002010-05-14T12:35:40.390+01:00

So I've gotten the BA1 fashion shoots done. Now the editing begins and I can concentrate more fully on finishing my project for next Friday. Only one person hasn't picked up their images, I'm not too sure why. I've got things to do though so they know where they can find me. It puzzles me that they'd want images and then not bother to collect them when the deadline is today. Oh well. I was

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Today I'm sitting among all the fashion students on the verge of sneezing my brains out due to the high percentage of hairspray in the air. I'm on my second day of shooting for a BA1 fashion group who have all made bridal corsets. I had a great time yesterday and got some fantastic images that I'll be sharing (I'll have a LOT more free time after today, editing here I come!). Since I'm waiting

Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03747781543019669284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022062378897028821.post-66634550559149104322010-04-28T20:52:00.001+01:002010-04-28T20:52:26.045+01:00

Today went pretty well. I'd arranged to see the textiles and fashion students over the course of the day who'd asked me to take photographs of their work. I'm overwhelmed by the response I've had to my poster (in a good way!). The textile student who texted me the other day brought along her friend and also somebody else who both want me to take photos for them, and the fashion group had 5 there

Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03747781543019669284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022062378897028821.post-47562004561880645632010-04-27T18:02:00.000+01:002010-04-27T18:02:05.716+01:00

I've been so busy over the past few weeks, and it's been so much fun. Starting from my last post, a week after it I went to New Word Alive, then started my third and final term for this year (year 1 is almost over!), and then the photoshoot requests started rolling in like nobody's business. All very, very good things to have happen. I had to re-read one of my texts as I'd missed that it wasn't

Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03747781543019669284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022062378897028821.post-38901055349512505092010-04-06T00:10:00.001+01:002010-04-06T00:12:34.533+01:00

Ok, so here's two photos I edited a little in photoshop from the Alice shoot. Not a lot done to them really. I cloned out the background where it was needed, removed any shadows on the infinity curve and changed the skin tone slightly. Blacks were enhanced and a warming filter was applied to the second photo. If you'd like a more in-depth explanation, feel free to ask me over at Flickr where I'll

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Photos from today to come tomorrow (hopefully!) For the first time ever today I did a fashion shoot for some 2nd and maybe 3rd year students with a few different models. It was arranged yesterday as one of the heads of department had seen I had posters up around college asking for people to ask me to photograph their work for them - it's what we do in my college. You scratch my back, I scratch

Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03747781543019669284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022062378897028821.post-83576203009130303432010-03-23T10:26:00.005Z2010-03-23T10:40:43.084Z

As soon as I thought I was getting back into the swing of posting, I fell pretty ill and hadn't the energy for anything. I'm well on my way to recovering now though so I should be able to catch up on posts. I wrote the following about a week ago but I was still having internet trouble. That's now been resolved (at last!). So, on Wednesday March 10th I went to an event called Focus On Imaging.

Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03747781543019669284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022062378897028821.post-73877192485336928472010-03-05T10:44:00.000Z2010-03-05T10:44:49.859Z

It's been a bit quiet here recently, sorry about that. It's just I have no internet at home at the moment. I should have it back sometime next week, all going to plan. As I write this I'm sitting in college listening to tunes on Spotify. So, what's new? Well as usual I've been taking photos of the firemen on mondays, which has now come to an end. Or has it? I've decided to carry on with the

Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03747781543019669284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022062378897028821.post-22318818974923421772010-02-19T12:32:00.001Z2010-02-19T14:17:14.800Z

So here I am in reading week! It's nearly over, but I've got some stuff done! I went to the fire station again on Monday even though I really didn't want to. Not because I don't enjoy myself though. I wasn't too sure why. I think it had something to do with being in the cold for a couple of hours and being a little tired. It was nice and warm indoors so I didn't feel like venturing outside to get

Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03747781543019669284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022062378897028821.post-81306200600668235642010-02-13T15:59:00.000Z2010-02-13T18:38:33.160Z

This post is later than planned due to me forgetting I was helping out at youth yesterday. I was in college all day and then youth shortly after that and I got back pretty late, so I didn't really have the energy for writing it out. I was really tired from having a late night the night before and then waking up during it repeatedly. My sleeping patterns haven't been the best lately. Last night I

Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03747781543019669284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022062378897028821.post-2271598319991210162010-02-11T22:17:00.000Z2010-02-13T18:39:36.369Z

So, in my last post I mentioned that the day had been a bit of a disaster. And this is why. In this post, I'm going to give some insight to the world of colour calibration, printing and repeating the procedure. Again and again. Now, it probably has something to do with my lack of experience, but I have come to rather dislike trying to get prints to match the screen colours. I can adjust the

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Sorry it's late, but I've been quite busy this week (which you'll find out about soon, but that's something for another post). However, Monday is fast becoming my favourite day of the week. I never thought it would, but there's so many things that make me enjoy it. My average Monday now goes like this:Get up 7.30 (groan...)Ready to catch bus by 8.30Get to college by 9.15Robbie's lectures all day:

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I've had a reasonably busy week. My firefighter photos were looked at by the tutor and I was given constructive criticism on how to improve. I had several more photos than I uploaded here, but I chose some of the ones that I liked the most. I did quite well but he wants me to be more specific next time. Might be a bit difficult to do detail shots when they're gonna be up and down the ladders, but

Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03747781543019669284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022062378897028821.post-50525763705229552422010-01-27T20:15:00.001Z2010-01-27T20:29:26.789Z

On the 17th of January 2010 I got baptised. You can listen to my testimony and watch my baptism right here on my blog!

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Pardon the title of this post, I was trying to come up with something that reflected what I got up to yesterday!Last Friday I got told by my tutor that I should probably try the "Person at Work" brief again. My photos weren't that great but there were a few that were salvageable, I need to edit them and sort out the ones I took last night. I told him that I'd been thinking of going up to the fire

Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03747781543019669284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022062378897028821.post-60908716467758638422010-01-24T20:11:00.000Z2010-01-24T20:32:51.822Z

Last year I got invited to a Christian conference that spans 5 days and has all kinds of Christian meetings and activities to take part in in an event called New Word Alive. Unfortunately, I couldn't go for various reasons. However, thankfully I got invited again this year and after checking if the dates coincided with my degree course (they don't) I found out I could go! It's located in Pwllheli

Emmahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03747781543019669284noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9022062378897028821.post-81242232049368471662010-01-23T22:03:00.000Z2010-01-23T22:32:36.795Z

So, my first post on my brand new blog. What should I say? I guess I should introduce myself. My name is Emma. I'm a 20 year old photography student in the heart of south wales, and I love what I do. Not only that, but I'm also quite a geek and love anything to do with computers, modern technology and I have a soft spot for Star Wars. An avid Doctor Who viewer (I didn't want David Tennant to go

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