Evaluation for Unit 107 Presenting Photo Images

I have enjoyed this unit but I did feel that I had totally ran out of time towards the end.  My original idea was to create a photo book but did not want to use any more than 6 - 8 images so felt there would not have been enough images for a photobook.

I decided to print my images and went to a print shop but it would have cost £ 4.50 per A4 print.  The lady in the shop did not know how to fit my landscape pictures on the machine so I decided to print them myself.

I did not realise how much time printing the images myself would take.  It took so long to get the print quality right but when I did I was very pleased with the final result.  I have learned a great deal about presenting photo images and am looking forward to exploring more ways to present.  I am really interested in collage and montages so am looking forward to doing these very soon.

Evaluation of Unit 108 Digital Manipulation

When deciding which option to do, Digital Manipulation or Dark Room  my initial choice was dark room as I have always wanted to know how it all works.  I did however choose digital manipulation as the rest of the group chose manipulation and I knew I would be able to do dark room in the future.  At this time I thought that manipulation was all about producing humorous images which did not really have much appeal to me.

When starting to use photo shop and seeing how just cropping an image could really improve it I started to become more interested.  After researching famous photographers like Faye Heller, Helen Sear and Julia Fullerton Batten my interest in digital manipulation grew.   I realised that manipulation was not just about humour but could be used to create really powerful art.

I am now looking forward to learning more about the tools within photo shop for digital manipulation.

Evaluation on Unit 101 Image Capture

I really enjoyed Unit 101 and as I initially had no experiance with using shutter speed controls or aperture contols.  I feel that I have learned so much in a short period of time, as when I first started I was only shooting black images.

I have found using the camera controls in relation to the light and weather conditions very enjoyable and now can set the aperture and shutter speed controls well to my surroundings.  The research has inspired my ideas and I have found the research to be very helpful and enjoyable.  Learning about the different styles of photography has been interesting and landscape, wildlife and street photography together with travel photography are the styles I am inspired by the most.

I have enjoyed finding my own genre but I know at this stage that this could change as I have yet to do any Studio, Portriature or Close up work.  I am looking forward to moving onto level 2 and trying some more styles of photography.

FINAL IMAGES FOR UNIT 107 PRESENTING PHOTO IMAGES

These are my final images which I have used photoshop to apply a border around the edge which enhances the image.  To apply a border i have used the tool Select and All.  This then highlights the outer edge of the image.  Select modify and border and then choose the border size.  Then you click on the colour you require the border to be, select Edit and then Fill.

These are the final six images I have chosen to present.  I did have eight original images but when I printed out the pictures of the birds I was not happy with them.  They came out dark and although I did alter the settings to print out lighter they still appeared dark to me.  I could have lightened them more but this seemed to take the detail from the feathers.

I printed the images myself using a HP Officejet Pro L7580 and used cs5 to set the images ready for print.

Different ways of Presenting Photo Images Research

This post is to outline the different options available for presenting photo images;

Photo Book

The photo book is a simple way of presenting your photo images. There are many different companies available on the internet Photobox, Albelli and Blurb to name a few.  Once you have signed up all you have to do is upload the images you wish to use and you are ready to create your own photo book. I have designed a photo book in the past for my sister in law of her hen weekend. I then gave it to her on her wedding day as this kind of presenting photo images can make a great gift. Many companies will give you the option to design the photo book for you.  The books are available in paperback or hardback and text can be added.

Calenders and Canvas

The same companies that offer photo books also offer other gift ideas like calenders, mugs and canvas printing.  They do many different sizes of canvas so if you have that special picture that you would like to hang on the wall then canvas is an easy contemporary way to do this.  I really like canvas print especially really big canvas prints and black and white images on canvas.  Another really nice presenting idea is to have multiple canvas side by side all showing one image.

Photo Albums

Photo albums are a nice way to show photographs if you have lots of them to present.  Photo albums have been around for a long time and come in many different styles and colours.  Photo albums are not as popular anymore since digital technology like slideshows and photo books as these are easier options.

Slideshow

A slideshow created on a computer is a really easy and cost free way of presenting photo images.  Slide shows can be created quickly and allows you to view large images if you have a big monitor which is more cost effective than printing.  There is also the environmental benifits of not using any paper or ink. A computer also allows you to store lots of images for viewing easily without taking up physical space.

Frames

Frames are a great way to present your photo images.  This can be expensive but works well if your prints are all the same size and lay side by side as they can all be presented in a single frame.  There are thousands of frames on the market available in a range of different styles and colours.

Photo Mounts

Photo mounts can be used to display photographs.  They an then be used in a frame to create a professional look or used alone and mounted onto coloured card.

Photographic Collage

A photographic collage is created by using photographs or parts of photographs to create a whole new image.  A photographic collage can be created easily by image software.  This image is a photographic collage image of Paris created by Hockney in 1985.

Photomontage

A photo montage is a process of cutting and joining a number of photograghs together to make a final complete image.

Initial Ideas for Unit 107 Presenting Photo Images

When deciding which images should be used as my final images I had so many images to choose from and my first idea for presenting my final images was a photo book.  As I had so many images that a photo book was the best option to display all of my images.  However, time became an issue and I did only want to select six to ten really great images.

I managed to select eight images which I felt were great images to present.  I think that eight images are not enough for a photo book so I decided that printing would be the next best option.  I went to a local printers to get my images printed but for A4 size which I felt was a decent size would cost £ 4.50 per print.  Also, the lady in the shop did not know how to print landscape onto an A4 sheet of photo paper without missing off half of the image.

As time has become an issue I have now decided to print my own images on my own printer.  I now need to ensure I have enough ink and photo paper.

FINAL IMAGES FOR UNIT 108 DIGITAL IMAGE MANIPULATION

These are my four images for Unit 108 Digital Image Manipulation.  I have chosen my daughter Molly to be my theme as you will see she appears in all of the manipulated images.  I have used photoshop cs3 and cs5 to manipulate the following images.

I was inspired by Helen Sear's 'Inside a View' collection for this image.  This was acheived by two images being layered.  The first image is the sunset and the silhouette shape of my daughter Molly which was taken with a small aperture which has limited the light and shot a lovely silhouette shape and captured the sunset in the background.  I then layered the second image on top of the flowers.  The flower image was a butterfly which I had to remove as it appeared across the silhouette. To layer an image you select all of the image and copy and paste the image onto the first image.  I then played around with the Opacity until I got the desired effect.

This image was inspired by an image I saw whilst watching the television although the main elements of the picture are totally different.  I started with the beach scene applied a grid to the image to ensure all the squares were the same size.  I then used the filters Sponge and Rough Pastels alternatively to create the patchwork image.  I then used the magnetic lasso tool around the Image of Molly and copy and paste her into the patchwork image.  I then flattened the image to create the new final image. 

This image was acheived by desaturating the image and then using the history brush to paint the leaf back the original colour.  This image was acheived by going into Image then adjustments. Desaturate.  I then used the history brush tool and painted over the part of the image I wanted the original colour back.

In this image inspired by Julia Fullerton Batten I have copy and paste three images of molly into the original image.  I first loaded the background image shot in St Lucia.  I then loaded three seperate pictures of Molly and used the magnetic lasso around the outside.  I then copy and paste that image into the background image.  I then went into edit, transform scale and this allows you to adjust the size of the copy and paste image.  I then repeated this process with the other two images.

Introduction to Unit 107 Presenting Photo Images

In Unit 107 Presenting Photo Images I am going to present 6 thematic images.  I will be using the images from assignment 101 and the Theme is Nature.  My images will relate to a theme and I will outline how the images relate to the theme.

I will show knowledge of how to use media for presenting photo images.
I will present my images and outline various other ways to display and present images.

FINAL IMAGES

These are my final images for Assignment 101 Image Capture.  All these images are shot with my Nikon D90 and lens 18 - 105mm which is my only lens.  I always assure that my battery is charged fully and I have a spare memory card and my tripod if possible whenever I go out with my camera.

Reflective Swan 1/2500 F5.6 ISO 640

This image was shot on the River Trent in Stapenhill Gardens.  It was a beautiful sunny Autumn day with some cloud.  This is a really nice image, the swan is fluffing its feathers which catch the light and this reflects in the water.  I have used a large aperture for this image F 5.6, which has allowed me great focus on the swan.  The fast shutter speed 1/2500 was needed as the light shining down on the swan and the large aperture could have caused the image to be over exposed.  I have cropped this image across the top which allows the eye to focus on the swan making a more powerful image.

This image illustrates many of the key composition aspects as well as representing great shape and form with the light casting a shadow in the water.  Lines are present with the moving water and patten and texture is seen within the water movement created by the fast shutter speed.  This image was taken at a low angle to get at the same level of the swan and has a nice balance with the moving water, swan and the out of focus plant in the corner of the image.

Flower Focus 1/4000  F 5.3  ISO 400

This beautiful caribbean flower was shot in Bonaire in the caribbean.  It was shot on a very hot day in the bright midday sun.  I have used a large aperture which has allowed me to focus on the flower and the leaves as the distance remains out of focus.  I have used a high shutter speed which was needed to limit the bright midday sun into the large aperture.  I have cropped this image slightly across the bottom which allowed me to remove a dead looking leaf although it was still a great image without any cropping.

This image shows the composition elements of balance, focus and colour as the position, focus and colour of the flower is really good.  It shows a line element as the veins in the leaf are very focused and the sharp focus has showed the patten and textures within the flower off beautifully.  The flower has a nice shape and form with the highlights and shadows casting across the image.  I really love the bluring of the background of this image but I think this was helped with the humidity of being in the caribbean climate.

Lonely Lizard  1/400  F 10  ISO 200

This image of a lizard was shot in a bar in Bonaire whilst getting some shade from the hot caribbean sunshine.  There were a few lizards running around on a nearby wall with bright red and yellow building in the background.  Unfortunately I have just realised whilst finding the aperture and shutter speed settings using Nikon Capture that I think I have shot this on auto.  I am still including this image in my final images as I feel sure I could have shot a similar shot to this one using the manual settings and I have eight final images whilst only six are needed. 

I very nice image which illustrates the compostion aspect of focus and colour.  I have captured the lizard as he appears to be looking right at me.  I have still used manual focus as I remember doing so and have focused on the lizard whilst bluring out the surrounding area.  I have used the crop tool in photoshop to crop the top of the image making the lizard more powerful.




Sunset  1/2000  F 16  ISO 400

This image was shot just of the coast of Antiqua at sunset.  I have shot this image directly into the sun and the high shutter speed and smaller aperture have worked well together to give a good exposure.  I have cropped the image across the top of the picture which has removed the sun in the distance but a line of light still remains right through the image as the sun is shining down on the sea.

This image illustrates the composition aspect of colour showing the beautiful orange of the sky at sunset.  The aspect of lines and reflection is also present with the line of light through the sea which guides your eyes completely through the image.  The boat which is just entering into the line of light shows a nice balance being a third of the way into the image.  This image shows patten and texture within the sea and creates the feeling of calm.

Flight  1/3200 F 5.6  ISO 400

This image was shot on a fine sunny autumn day in Stapenhill Gardens by the river.  Whilst walking by the river some children came to feed the ducks which caused a frenzy of birds.  I set my controls using a wide aperture to enable me to focus on the birds and a really fast shutter speed was needed due to the bright day and the speed the birds were moving.  I took a few images checked the exposure, and spent a couple of minutes shooting birds at a very quick pace.

This image shows narrow depth of field as only the bird is in sharp focus.  I have cropped the image across the top which has produced a more detailed and powerful image within the bird.  I love the detail in the wings which has a nice patten and texture and the colour of the beak and legs.  I think the image has nice shape and form of the bird against the out of focus background.  I also love the way the light seems to shine through the wings, highlighting the patten and texture within the image.

Birds  1/3200  F 5.6   ISO 400

Another image shot at the same time as the previous image whilst walking by the river on a sunny autumn day.  More birds are captured in this image but there are two which are in sharp focus at the forefront of the image.  The detailing on these birds shows lovely patten and texture and it shows good tonal balance of the birds against the background.  I have cropped this image at the top which has resulted in a powerful image.

Winter Road  1/125  F13  ISO 640

This image was shot on a winter morning at Hoar Cross.  This shot was taken early in the morning just after the sunrise.  I set my ISO at 640 because it was quite dark when I first started shooting.  Shot with quite a small aperture which has given a wide depth of field and also ensured exposure which can be a little tricky in extreme weather conditions like snow.   I have desaturated this image using digital manipulation.

This image illustrates the composition aspect of lines with not only the road guiding your eyes through the image but also the tyre tracks in the snow on the road.  The tyre tracks also add patten and texture to the image together with the trees.  I have shot this image at a really low angle which allowed the detail of tyre tracks in the road and also to capture more of the road going through the trees.  This image also shows a nice balance within the rule of thirds and has a nice tonal range.

Catch of Light  1/320  F 13 ISO 640

This image was shot on a winter morning as the sun was rising in the sky.  This image shot with a quite small aperture allowing for a wide depth of field.  A fast shutter speed was needed to gain the correct exposure in the extreme weather conditions.  The sun is shining through a circle shape within the tree where two branches cross over each other.  The fast shutter speed helped with shooting into the sun and I love the way the sun shines out in a star shape.

This image shows really nice patten and texture thoughout the image with a good tonal range. The patten of the snow coloured branches are all around the image guideing your eyes around the image. The tonal value between the trees and the snow is really nice and I love the way the snow lays on the top of the tree trunk.  The sun shot through the trees shows a nice balance within the image being shot at a third of the way across the image.

Health and Safety

Whilst taking these images all health and safety aspects were considered.  Every care was taken whilst photographing near water and on the snow.

Research on types of Lenses

Lenses are measured in millimetres and this is known as the focal length of the lens.   The standard lens for a 35mm camera is a 50mm lens.  If a lens has a shorter focal length than 50mm it is considered to be a wide angle lens and with a longer focal length than 50mm is considered to be a telephoto lens.

Wide Angle Lens

Wide angel lenses are good to use on landscapes allowing you to get more of the image within the frame of the picture.  They are also good for focus on objects in the foreground and fading out the distance beyond.  The most popular wide angle lens are 24mm and 28mm.

Telephoto Lens

A telephoto lens is really good for sporting events or wildlife allowing you to zoom in on the image from a distance.  At a distance the telephoto lens allows you to focus on a subject and shoot that subject in sharp focus whilst the surrounding area of the image is out of focus.

Macro Lens

A Macro lens is used for close up photography and allows you to focus a lot closer to the subject.  The quality is very high with a macro lens allowing you great sharpness within the image. 

Fisheye Lens

The fisheye lens look like a fisheye and distorts the image so that the outer edge of the image appears to be further away whilst the centre of the image almost comes out to meet you.

Shift/Perspective Contol Lens

This lens is an expensive lens which will move the perspective of a building without having to tilt the camera backwards.  This type of lens is good for shooting tall buildings.

Idea's for Image Manipulation Assignment

When researching famous photographers for image manipulation I researched Helen Sear, Julia Fullerton Batten and Faye Heller.  I liked these photographers as I found their work to be more art based than some of the other more humourous manipulation photographers.  I would like to base my Manipulation on the photographers I have researched.

I was never really interested in manipulation in photography before but after researching Helen Sear I found that manipulation can be used in a very artistic way.

Idea's for a Theme

• Molly my daughter to appear in my manipulated images
• For the Sea to be my theme
• For Nature to be my Theme

After looking through my photographs and deciding which photographs to use along with my artistic ideas I have decided that I will base my theme on my daughter Molly.   I have ideas that have materialised through the research that has inspired me and also through images seen in books, magazines and on the television.  I would like my manipulation to be on a more artistic level than a humourous one as when researching I found that Helen Sear and Julia Fullerton Batten inspired me most.

Images by me

Choosing the final images for the first assignment has been very difficult as I have so many.  These are a few images that I really like but unfortunately they did not make it into my final images.

1/200 F10 ISO 200

This is a lovely image of a lizard taken on the island of Bonaire in the Caribbean.  Unfortuneately there is a shadow across the picture which spoils it but the focus and the bluring of the background is good.

1/125 F13

Woodlands in the style of Ansel Adams.  When I first started to research Ansel Adams I found many images of trees taken in the same style as this one. I have taken many images like this one but they all had too much foreground in them and then I found the crop tool which has allowed me to crop the image.




1/1250 F 5-6

This image of a swan is very similar to one done by Robert Carter I have included the picture in my research.  I have used photoshop to zoom in slightly on this image and the crop tool to square the picture.  The large aperture has allowed great focus on the swan and tiny droplets of water can be seen.  A fast shutter speed was needed for exposure as it was a sunny day and this was taken with a large aperture.

1/800  F/8

Reflections.  This is a really nice image using the composition aspect of reflections.  The image was only there for a minute and then the sun went in.


1/320 F13

Taken on a snowy morning at Hoar Cross an interesting shaped tree and stream which guides you through the picture.  I have used a small aperture to focus on the whole image and a fast shutter speed was needed with the extreme weather conditions.

Change of Theme - Nature

For my original theme I chose Autumn as I think when the trees start to change colour in the Autumn sunshine this can create some really good colourful images.  I have however decided to change my theme to Nature.  The reason for this is that Autumn was very short lived this year we had snow at the end of November and this did not give me enough time to finalise my shots.  Although I did have some really nice shots looking at them now I am just critising them because of the further knowledge I have.

During the autumn months I was still learning how to use my camara and getting to grips with shutter speed and aperture.  I have learned so much more since autumn it would be a shame not to be able to include my more recent images as I feel that I now have control over the settings, have learned how to use the light and how to frame a shot better. 

Faye Heller

When I first looked at Faye Hellers work I did initially think how bazaar.  It was not until I looked at many of her images I started to see something I quite liked.  Faye Heller produces Montages by separating pictures of architecture and the female form like eyes, hair and legs.

Faye Heller Montages take on a 1950 film concept done mainly in black and white although sometimes adding blocks of bold colours within the image.  At first I thought that the work was put together in photoshop by chopping the images cut and paste.  The images are actually created by using her own archives and splitting the images and arranging them until she has the final picture, she then photographs the picture to create the final image.

Faye Heller's style is contemporary and she has exhibited alone and in groups in Holland Italy and London.

This first image is my favorite Faye Heller Montage.  I love the sweeping lines of the staircase which is complemented really well with the very peaceful image of the girl. She has used the composition aspect of lines and the Rule of Thirds within this image and I think it shows great shape and form with a lovely tonal range. A really lovely piece of contemporary art. This image is a good example how art can create mood and when looking at this image I think it creates a very relaxed mood.

Another brilliant montage using the lines of a staircase and female eyes.  This image uses straight lines within the staircase and focuses just on the eyes of the girl.

Julia Fullerton Batten

Julia Fullerton Batten was born in Germany in 1970 but spent most of her childhood growing up in the United States before moving to England in 1986.  She studied photography at Berkshire College of Art and Design and then went on the work as a photographers assistant.

Whilst she was still working as an assistant a series of pictures she shot during a trip to Vietnam won her awards and she was then signed by a German agent.  Julia then did a project on teenage girls which she titled Teenage Stories and within these images showed the transition of teenage girls to womenhood.  In these images she captures how teenage girls transform into womenhood.  These girls are showing no emotion within the images to show confusion of the changing world around them.

She has gone on the exhibit her work around the world and won many many awards

This image Library Girls which was taken in 2007 is done in a contemporary style and is part of a series of photographs done in the same way.  In each photographs the girls are all the same girl each having a role to play within the image.  I really like the texture of this image with the old fashioned library walls in dark wood and lined with books.  Lines plays a dominant part in this image with the shelving and the books in the background.

This image is an photograph from the work Teenage Stories and shows an oversized image of a girl within another image of the changing world around her.

Helen Sear

Helen Sear is a British Photographer born in 1955 and her photography has developed from a Fine Art background of performance and film in the 1980's.  In 1991 she exhibited some of her photographs in De Composition an exhibition that took her photography around Latin America and Eastern Europe.  In 1993 she received an Abbey Award in Rome and went on the exhibit her work in many other countries.

Helen's Photography explores the idea of vision and represents nature through lens based media and digital technologies and manipulation.  In the images below she has taken two images one of a landscape and one of a girl she has then used digital drawing which creates an image that there is a net or veil over the top of the images.

These images show that manipulation of a photograph can create wonderful pieces of art just like that of a painter.  These images show a lovely texture which is created by the artwork within the image and the flowers over the whole of the image.  I love the way you are drawn into the image through the flowers almost as you get to see what the girl in the image sees.  The way the flowers cascade down through the image is lovely starting small at the top and becoming more noticable as they fall down into the image.

I really love these images and would really like to see them exhibited to see if they have that wow factor I imagine they would have in a gallery.

I really like the texture of this image I think it is a corn field mixed together with the beautiful red and purple flowers.  I would love to see this image full size as I think it is hard to appreciate them on a computer.

Robert Carter

Robert Carter is a freelance photographer who lives in the United Kingdom,  Robert became interested in photography when he studied GCSE Photography and later went on to study A Level.  Although he was really interested in photography he change direction and studied Drama and Psychology at Roehampton University.

After finishing University Robert Carter decided to go traveling and it was while traveling through India, Thailand, Nepal, Laos and Australia that his passion for photography was reborn.

This is a beautiful image of a close up of a swan which are really lovely to photograph and quite difficult to get close ups.  This image shows focus on the head of the swan bringing out the detail of the beak and the fur.  This image has been taken with a zoom lens which captures the swan in a very relaxed tranquil mood.  I have taken images of swans but have had to use the zoom tool in photoshop to bring the image closer.  I would like a more powerful zoom lens so I too can capture some fantastic wildlife images.

Another beautiful image of two swans and their reflections in the water.  This image uses the composition aspect of the Rule of Thirds and Reflections and I also like the contrast of the swans against the dark background of the water.  The swans cause a ripple in the water which stretches right across the rule of thirds and creates a really nice effect.

This image is a really nice reflective image of trees in water which also uses the rule of thirds composition aspect and I think it has good tonal range and balance.  I love reflection images I have taken a few myself and sometimes you have to be really quick as the light can cause them to dissapear very quickly.

This is an image of a sunset just as the sun is disappearing behind the mountain.  The sun sends a reflection across the water which guides your eyes through the image.  I love shots where the sun sends a line of light through water I have taken some myself as you can see in my earlier post sunsets and landscapes.

Stephen Shore

Stephen Shore was born in 1947 and has been interested in photography since the age of six when an Uncle bought him a dark room kit as a present.  He is self taught and started presenting his work at an early age to Edward Steichen the Curator of Photography at the museum of modern art who saw his potential and bought three of his images.

When Stephen shore was 17 he met Andy Warhol and later began to photograph him in his surroundings and then went on to hold an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

By the 1970's Stephen Shore began to travel around America and Canada photographing landscapes and then on to Manhatten, Amarillo and Texas.  He then learned that colour photography could also be considered a piece of Art like any painting or Black and White photograph which was not considered possible by some of his predecessors.

This is an image taken while Stephen Shore was following around Andy Warhol and capturing him and the world that surrounded him.  This image shows Andy Warhol and Chuck Wain in the background.  This photograph like all at this time was done in black and white shows a good tonal range.  The shot has focused on the girl which is of course Andy Warhol surroundings.

I like this landscape image which I feel shows really nice texture of the water the sand and stones and then the trees and then the mountains far away in the distance.  This image shows a good balance of the rule of thirds.

This image Holden Street shows how Stephen Shore has used the vibrant colours of these buildings to bring this image alive and the road leads the eye into the distant landscape.  I like the vibrant colours of the buildings in this image and he has shot in a great position which shows how the rule of thirds can make a great proportioned and positioned image.

Images by me in the style of Dennis Morris

Over the last few months I have discovered that I really like landscape and street photograpy and here are a few images captured over the last month during my travels around some caribbean islands.  I have also included some shots in Jamaica in February earlier in 2010.

ISO 400  1/200  F18

This image was shot at a distance so I have used photo shop to zoom in on the image and also the crop tool. 

Image taken in a local neighbourhood up in the mountains in St Lucia. I really like the colours within this image.

ISO 200   1/320    F/9

I really like this image of three workmen casually talking.  To me this image shows the relaxed way of life of the caribbean, everything is done at a really slow pace.

Image taken in a small village in Bonaire.

ISO 400   1/250   F/13

Raskassa's Art Gallery.

Image taken on the edge of a small town in Aruba.
This image captures the way of life in the caribbean this shows a local art gallery.

ISO 400  1/200   F/18
Although this image is quite dark I really love the Jamaican colours of the shirt and hat shot close to the rain forest in Dominica. A very low key tone with some vibrant colours.

ISO 400  1/1250   F5.6   This image of the Djembe Drummer has been turned Black and White in photo shop.  Taken on a dull day in Antigua I have used a small aperture and blurred out the background.

 

This image of a bar in Jamaica captures the way of life in the caribbean.

Dennis Morris

Dennis Morris was 11 when one of his images was printed on the front page of the Daily Mirror but he first made an impact with his photography when he started to photogragh Bob Marley.  From this time he was then spotted by Johnny Rotten a big Reggae fan and went on to photograph the Sex Pistols, Marianne Faithful and Oasis to name a few.

Although his photography of the music scene is fantastic and captures some really brilliant moments that the music industry has ever seen, the work I love most is his work from his collections "Growing up Black and the Jamaican Street Scene.  Having travelled all over the caribbean I have seen the local villages and the people and the most amazing images that can be captured.  Unfortunately as a tourist Jamaica is not an easy place to capture these type of images so he was in a good position to enable him to shoot some amazing photographs.

An early image of Bob Marley in Leeds 1974.  When I went to see Dennis Morris he told of when he used to play football with Bob Marley.  This image shows a good tonal range throughout the image and I love the deep in thought pose which I would imagine is a natural pose.



This early image from his collection "Growing up Black" shows how much pride people took in there appearance.  As you can see people often lived in one room sometimes with washing hanging yet such pride was taken in appearance and the way people dressed.

The above image of Keishas Beauty Salon is a typical business in Jamaica and this is how people live and Dennis Morris has captured the way of life brilliantly in all of his photography around the streets of Jamaica.

I have really come to like street photography and this image of a typical crowd in Jamaica captures the true nature of what living in Jamaica is like.