Tim Wallace Interview BBC Radio

BBC Radio Interview

After Tim Wallace won the 'International Advertising Photographer of the Year 2010' award, BBC radio did an interview with Tim about following your heart within photography and making things happen. I found the interview inspirational and moving that coming from one extreme to the next and making sure you keep getting back up on your feet and keep trying and trying until you get to the place you want to be.  

South West Dubs

Chriz Quick Photography

Yesterday was the day of the annually big South West Dubs meet. South West Dubs is a website/forum built up from a group of friends back in 2005 after all having a passion for Volkswagen cars. As a moderator on the forum I get to help with problems and keep the website safe. We contacted Golf+ (Volkswagen Magazine) if they'd be interested in a feature for us from the meet, we got an E-mail back saying they will leave us a 2 page spread in the magazine as long as we provided the pictures.
The meet took place at Exeter services at 11.30 and then a cruise down to Exmouth beach where everyone parked up again in the maer car park. The meet attracts people from as far down as Cornwall and as far up as Bournemouth, Bristol. The weather held out for us for the day and in return was able to capture some good shots.

Tim Wallace E-Mail

Tim Wallace

Unfortunately Tim Wallace wasn't able to take me on for some work experience or to shadow him whilst he worked but he did agree to an interview which I will be conducting soon. I plan to do the interview over the phone as email and letter's are long winded and I can't go meet him in person as he lives up north.
Tim Wallace is an International photographer specialising in cars and auto-mobiles. His work can been seen in car brochers such as, Jaguar, Land Rover, Morgan, Aston Martin, Porsche, BMW, Ford etc.  To interview Tim will help me out a lot in my quest to get into this line of work and to understand how he got to where he is now.

Logo

Logo Final

Logo Testers

After finishing my business card, model release form and other related developments I decided I needed a Logo for myself. I wanted to go for a simple 'CQ' logo and incorporate the two letters together. I decided I wanted to use the 'copy write' logo as a starting point and develop my ideas from there. The logo with the 'C' inside the 'Q', although looking quite cool and slick felt like that the 'Q' was the initial letter and therefore I decided against it for the main reason it would confuse people. I decided to reverse this and use the 'C' as the bigger and outside letter, but I felt like this looked slightly armature and sloppy. I then decided to play with the letters and joining them together. After messing around with a few different fonts it just wasn't fitting correctly and decided to lift the 'C' a little so you could fully understand the two letters. I tilted the 'C' back and forth but decided that the two letters together straight with the 'C' slightly higher than the 'Q' worked well and decided to keep this. The logo now has been put on all my model release forms, website etc.

Model Release Form

Model Release Form

Been meaning to do one for a while now and after realising that I need to start thinking about my work professionally I decided to create a model release form. I've done a few portraits in the past for either previous college projects or for personal work and by getting my models to sign my release form I will have full control over what happens to my images. It also means I can have a track record
of when the photoshoot had taken place and with whom I took the shoot with, aswell as recording the models contact details.
I got the form template from a website and modified it to suit me, including my name and website at the top of the page. I'm still planning on making a small logo
for myself and will add this to the form when i have completed it.

David Bailey - Michael Caine Write Up

David Bailey - Michael Caine

David Bailey – Michael  Caine

This image of Michael Caine taken by David Bailey in 1965 inspired me to take photography seriously and showed me that photography is more than just a photograph. I first came across this image when I was studying my ND in photography course at Exeter College. I fell in love straight away with the tone and shadow use which accentuate his face details and how Bailey had used certain props and facial expressions to create a character within the image. The purpose of the image was used to promote Michael Caines new film ‘Alfie’ where he plays an English stud. The plot behind the story is that Alfie (Michael Caine) takes advantage of pretty much every woman he encounters, but as a result of that is eventually left alone. The unrepentant ladies man gradually understands the actions he takes in life are leaving him a lonely soul. There was a remake of the film in 2004 with Jude Law playing the famous character of Alfie. In parody, David Bailey was commissioned to remake the image of Michael Caine for the release of the film. If you had seen David Baileys work initially then you can most certainly relate the two images together and understand the link, but for someone who hasn’t seen Bailey’s earlier work then the image alone might have just been a promotion to the film. The magazine subsequently won ‘best cover of the year’ award and I can understand why. I love black and white photography and I know that’s a biased why to say I love the image but it’s not just that it’s black and white, I love the shadows and tones used which you can’t achieve in colour. With all these tones and harsh shadows it creates this powerful, prompt figure that looks hierarchy. All this was inspired by the original 1965 image, which looking at them together you can clearly see the simulates between them both.

David Bailey - Jude Law

My personal opinion on the original is highly rated, and I myself try and incorporate some hint of evidence that I am influenced by Bailey’s work in my own work. The portrait itself at the time was a revolution, because Bailey used to cut the tops of heads off in his work. For me and for many others I’m sure you don’t even initially notice it but it leads your eye straight into the face of the model. Certainly in this image the black suit contrasting with the white background and the white shirt with the black tie all lead inwards towards his face. The subtle gradient across his face make it the only part in the picture that has tone and shadow which gives the face a 3D structure and detail. This was achieved by harsh side lighting from the left, maybe flashing slightly upwards towards the model. The loud dark shadows on the right side of his face show a masculine and dominate portrait which describes the role of the character accordingly. The props and clothes used also represent the ‘Alfie’ character to a tee and the target audience can understand the link between the film and this portrait. I feel that the cigarette balanced on his lower lip gives him a sense of control and masculinity to be able to look down upon people. This relates well to his role in ‘Alfie’, even though the composition looks like its slightly looking down on the model, you still get a sense of strength and power in the image because of the lighting and props used. Normally to make someone look hierarchy in an image you shoot them from below, but interestingly enough Bailey has done the opposite but was still able to achieve a masculine approach to the final print. I think overall this is a very iconic image in photography and it’s been put down in my personal collection of all time greatest photos ever taken.