My second iconic image
Cindy Sherman

My finished image

So this was my set up for my take on a Guy Bourdin shoot with a little twist.
I will be using a 550D with a 24mm lens, set up on a tripod with a remote shutter release, 2 elinchrom flash heads and an aperture of around f16 for everything to be in focus.

This weekends set up -
Elinchrom D-Lite RX4 with thru umbrella
Elinchrom D-Lite RX4 with softbox
Awesome, just turned up today, full weekend shooting and practicing set up etc.

Open that bottle, get the creative juices flowing

Photograph by Charles O’Rear

An iconic image that people will relate to, but with no people in and not actually recording an event.

"Bliss is the name of a photograph of a landscape in Napa County, California, east of Sonoma Valley. It contains rolling green hills and a blue sky with stratocumulus and cirrus clouds. The image is used as the default computer wallpaper for the “Luna” theme in Windows XP."

extract from wikidreport.com

Iconic images reproduced

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15669670

http://edition.cnn.com/2013/09/01/us/the-flag-iconic-images/

http://infocus.gettyimages.com/post/what-is-iconic-imagery#.UzRHcNwecpE

Real Heroes

I was also lucky enough to catch a fire training simulation, which is awesome to be part of, the heat is intense and your not allowed to get so close to the action.

Again the sequence is slightly out as the image at the bottom should really be first.

Real Heroes

From my morning at the airport

I'd been asked to go to the Fire Training Ground at Durham Tees Valley Airport to assess their water treatment process and associated drainage system, luckily I'd taken my camera and managed to capture some images of a plane training scenario.

You don't really get much time to think and just had to react, but I thought it would bee a good chance which also would coincide with our latest project.

The images are straight out of camera, so may be could be cropped or worked on slightly.

The image at the bottom is slightly out of sequence and should be second, but trying to sort it on the blog was just a little too frustrating.

Nan Goldin

Jees, talk about a mood changer. You couldn't really watch the documentary made by her about her life, whilst having a drink.

Fantastic how she has captured the last twenty odd years of peoples life and the way the film went in full circle, starting at the fair ground and ending there.

But a very depressing film, people questioning "why me?"

Time for a mood changer, bring myself back round. Bit of spongebob (ICON), no interspecies sex going on there.

Or a bit of scooby doo, those pesky clean livin kids.

Initial Ideas

 So this was my initial idea, but after the first lecture I just felt it may have been done to death, but i still carried out a fair bit of research on the subject

 Terence Donovan

Terence Stamp, an iconic image by Terence Donovan

Duffy & Bailey, the three photographers were great friends.

Self Portrait

Anonymity

noun, plural an·o·nym·i·ties.

1.

the state or quality of being anonymous.

2.

an anonymous person: some fine poetry attributed to anonymities.

anonymous  (əˈnɒnɪməs)
— adj
1.	from or by a person, author, etc, whose name is unknown or withheld: an anonymous letter
2.	having no known name
3.	lacking individual characteristics; unexceptional KoolHandFluke - Photography pseu·do·nym   [sood-n-im]  Show IPA noun a fictitious name used by an author to conceal his or her identity; pen name. Compare allonym (  def 1 ) . Origin:  1840–50;  < Greek pseudṓnymon  false name; see pseud-, -onym Synonyms  alias, nom de plume.

fa·cade

[fuh-sahd, fa-]  Show IPA noun 1. Architecture . a. the front of a building, especially an imposing or decorative one. b. any side of a building facing a public way or space and finished accordingly. 2. a superficial appearance or illusion of something: They managed somehow to maintain a facade ofwealth. Also, fa·çade. Origin:  1650–60;  < French  < Upper Italian faciada, Italian facciata,  equivalent to facci ( a ) face + -ata -ade1

Heroes'n Villans

May be the title should have been along the lines of iconic image.

This little blog is to do with why my title is misspelt, why I took the 'I' out of villain.

That is to do with my thought process on the self portrait aspect and removing myself, omitting 'I'

Although I will be in all the images it won't actually be me, people can still see the word says Villain.

Anywhos LoL - it all made sense to me, god knows what I was drinking at the time, I have post-its, A4 sheets, scraps of paper all over my sofa on an evening with all my ideas as they just pour out of my head. The next day trying to piece it all together is a fantastic experience. 

Self portrait Ideas

Banksy

Banksy

Artist

Banksy is a pseudonymous United Kingdom-based graffiti artist, political activist, film director, and painter. His satirical street art and subversive epigrams combine dark humour with graffiti executed in a distinctive stencilling technique. 

Born: Bristol

Nationality: English

Movies: Exit Through the Gift Shop, The Antics Roadshow

Books: Banksy

Periods: Graffiti, Street art

Awards: Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Feature, more

The Invisible Man

Lee Friedlander

Using shadows and reflections

Steve Pyke - Moonbug

My idea with the Bond theme was going to be brought together with my passion for the Rolleiflex. I must have seen the cover for Moonbug so many times and subconsciously brought the 2 together.

I was wanting to do it all on film and produce the image quite large in the darkroom.

Obviously bringing it all together in the darkroom is going to be a challange - but what a final image it would be, using all my skills from setting up the images in camera, lighting, exposure, processing etc.

Exciting project, but very time consuming and probably very ambitious.  

James Bond

Below is a link for the development of the opening credits (scroll down on the site to read)
http://www.artofthetitle.com/feature/james-bond-50-years-of-main-title-design/