Wednesday, August 30, 2006

oh nooo not already!!

well it is grand time i start thinking about working again and i still haven't made up my mind about finding a whatever job or going back to the office....just the thought of it all makes me want to take a nap but then again, i have way too much time on my hands at the moment and am starting to feel bored and wasting my time.... not good!!!

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

the real thing

here are a couple photos taken in the last few days for the previously mentionned project. the first one is anyway (of chris on his own) and the other ones were for fun to finish the film....
considering the limited equipment and the home-made nature of the studio... well judge for yourself but it's not so bad really...
and of course, many thanks to my two fabulous models who, not without extreme professionalism, took their jobs very (maybe for chris even too) seriously.....


chris loves laure, laure loves chris and....

caz loves jazz!!!! (and Guillaume)




Wednesday, August 23, 2006

getting ready and stressing a bit

in the last couple days, i have been preparing myself for the shooting of my upcoming photography assignment, the andy warhol one and although i think i have found an interesting approach to it, it also ends up being more challenging for me than anything i have done so far....
the main difficulty is that i will not one or two but three models (caz and chris + myself since i don't have enough human resources to have a third person in that isn't me....) it's actually the first time i will be taking photos of people with a "project" in mind... and that scares me a little since i don't want my own stress to spread to my "models" and end up screwing it up. i know they will patient with me and chris knows enough to help me through this new step...
difficulty number two is that i want my photos to be equivalent to a studio setting with basically no background (except for black or white) but the problem here is that i know close to nothing about lighting, how to use a flash or even use natural lighting in an optimum way... once again, practice is the only master and so i will make mistakes and improve like that...
finally, i will be attempting multiple exposures on a black background which i have NEVER done and although i have spent the last two days reading a lot of stuff on the internet, i'm still pretty nervous about it.... only thing is to try and see...
so yes, although i'm pretty excited because if it turns out, it could be a relatively interesting project but there is quite a big chance that i will just blow it badly...... let's just hope the camera is on my side............

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Manly with my two men

not a bad day for the middle of winter....
the joyeux lurons happy to catch up for a couple days... the now made famous bronze sculptures...

Thursday, August 17, 2006

stumbling accross ideas...


I took this photo in Rotterdam last year and didn't think it would come in handy sometime but...

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

any ideas cuz' i don't get it....

This project asks you to look at the relationships between language and colour. Assuming that language is a series of propositions that image the world, select a sentence, from any source (your favourite novel, a poem, newspaper article, advertising slogan etc), of between six to ten words. Make an image of each word. Do not feel that you have to produce photographs that illustrate either the word or the sentence as a whole, but look for ways of extending the meanings inherent in both the word and the image, or in their point of collision or divergence.

This is the brief for my second photography assignment and I am STUCK!!!!! any ideas on the interpretation of this brief highly appreciated.....

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuure-aah.....


special cace-dedi pour marco la...!!!!!!!!!!! Suuuuuuuuuuuuraaah

fly birdie.....FLYYYYYYY!!!!!!

that's what it felt like when slightly emotional i set off papa to fly to melbourne yesterday morning... well, i didn't exactly take him to the airport and since we haven't heard from him so far, we can only assume that all went well...
this past week went very well and i think that papa managed to see quite a few things, and his faves a couple extra times... by faves I obviously mean the bats at the botanic garden (which had also fascinated Lolo in his time) and the opera house for which the statistics of number of photos taken by tourist might suddenly go up after papa's stay down under.... I think that back in france, he will easily be able to have a slide show dedicated to the opera house, no worries mate!!
the week was topped up by a road trip down south for the week end to Jervis Bay mainly. and so, many birds and other native species were crossed off the list of "must-sees" such as the famous kukaburra and the annoying Gahla (+others) as well as a pair of massive (my biggest so far) kangaroos performing something that looked like either a mating ritual or fighting... hard to tell with these aussies...., some emus (unfortunately farmed ones but still), a reasonably sized sting ray and a biker dog wearing a striped yellow and black sweatshirt and its own custom-made pair of biker goggles..... yup.
accompanied by a few beers, some wedges and burgers with the lot (including beetroot) i think we can safely say that it was a very successful week-end and will be excited to have my pix developed in the next couple days...
as I said, we haven't heard from papa yet but he is staying with Peter, chris' architect uncle who is back in Melbourne for a couple days and then, working his way up to Albury until saturday...
On saturday, Chris' parents and papa will drive back up to sydney where a massive familieS dinner will take place, including Lolo!!!!! so much fun to come!!

what I like to call "camping in style".....

destination : Jervis Bay, South Coast, NSW