Music Photography | Cardboard Cut-Outs 2

It’s currently 2:37am and I knew it would happen like this. Lately I haven’t really had the urge to write, I’ve tried believe me, with so much that I need to get done I had the desire to write but with no real urge to write. I tried a few times, but that just lead to a whole page of A4 being deleted and never seen again. So I kind of had a feeling that I would suddenly get the urge to write at a time where I should be considering sleep. Ah well, just glad to be able to write again.

In today’s post we have photographs from my younger brother’s gig that occurred a few weeks ago in all honesty, but it took me a while to get the film back. This isn’t the first time that I have photographed the Cardboard Cut-Outs, if you wish to see the photographs from the first gig of theirs that I photographed feel free to click here.

The photographs in this particular post were taken at R Bar in Gravesend, Kent and I thought that I would try and use the Olympus OM-10 and some black and white film like I did way back when I photographed Jason Olveira in Lewisham. There were a couple of problems though, firstly the highest rated black and white film that I could find was some ISO 400 Ilford HP5 film and my Olympus OM-10 decided to break.

My cameras don’t generally break so that was a major surprise, at first I thought it was the battery so I went a bought a new set and alas it was not the battery, the camera is just broken. So I used the Ilford HP5 in a different camera, my Canon EOS 3000 35mm film SLR. I haven’t really used this camera much before. I had got this camera from a charity shop in Bromley, if memory recalls, it also came in its box. So, we’ve solved the problem where I would be lacking a camera but alas we still had the issue with my film.

I really didn’t believe that ISO 400 would be enough, so I pushed the film. I rated the film in-camera at ISO 800 and wrote all over the canister in Sharpie so that whoever developed the film couldn’t be mistaken. The Canon EOS 3000 uses Canon EF lenses so I used the only two I had. The shots on this blog post were taken with wither a Canon EF 28mm f1.8 lens or a Canon EF 50mm f1.8 lens. You may notice that this blog post is a bit video heavy. The two videos at the top are from the Cardboard Cut-Outs gigs (the top being the first and the bottom being the second) and the video under the photographs is just a short one that I found on my computer that has nothing at all really to do with this blog post. There are eleven photographs and if you’ve been reading the post up to now you will realise that they are all in black and white.

There are a few more blog posts coming up, another gig post, a wedding and a few more. I have been busy recently, I’m going to go to sleep now, but, hopefully this ability to actually sit down and write will carry on into tomorrow and I’ll be able to delve into those short scripts I slightly abandoned. Hope you enjoy the photos.

Update | 17th August 2011

First, I would like to apologise for the lack of post of late. There are many reasons but I’m only going to cover a few.
Welcome to the second richardanthonymorris blog update.

I photographed a wedding on the 6th of August as I had mentioned in previous posts. Going through all those photographs multiple times does take some time and I would like to say that the photographs will be going up later in the week I just need to word the post that will go with them. I handed over the photographs on Monday and the couple (Tim and Suzanne Jones) were very pleased with the results, which made me quite happy.

Also on Monday I started as a Voluntary Teacher’s Assistant for a week long Illustration course at Camden Summer University. I’m only a few days in as I write this but I am enjoying it so much. One of the main reasons I went for this was to know for certain whether teaching would be a good career path for me and I have to say I really think it suits me.

As well as the wedding post, I am also trying to write a post about a park I found  on a walk through St. Albans last week. The photographs were taken on a compact camera as that was all that I had on me at the time so the quality won’t really match the rest of the blog but the photographs are nice all the same, and with that I’ll be putting a video with it also, so I guess I’m editing that as well.

I still haven’t completed my wedding portfolio that I mentioned in the last update (February Update) and with the wedding I just photographed and the possible weddings that I have got from that it may be a while before that’s completed. Everything else that I mentioned in the update came about really, I went to the Wedding Talk and I also started doing Video which you may have noticed if you pay attention to the blog on a regular basis. There are videos I upload that don’t make it to the blog if you would to check out my Vimeo page, feel free - http://vimeo.com/richardanthonymorris

Actually, talking of videos, I’m starting a couple of awesome video projects soon, which I’ll discuss more as they actually happen. Apart from that an general life stuffs I’ve also been trying to write. The details of which can be found on the link below.

http://andthenhetriedwriting.wordpress.com/

I received an e-mail the other day telling me that one of my photographs from my Flickr account (that I rarely use but can be accessed through the sidebar) has been used in an online guide to London along with what I am sure are many others, but if you would like to check it out, feel free - http://sch.mp/0gdh89 (National Gallery, London)

And there we are, just to let you know that I have been busy and that the blog should should have more posts arriving soon. As you can probably tell this isn’t as organised as the last update and I could have easily written one of the five blog ideas I have but I’ve written this one now so that’s that. Also, I’m thinking of giving the website a total go over again, feel free to check it out – http://richardanthonymorris.com

EDIT
23rd August 2011

I put the wrong web address up. Check this for my website: http://richardanthonymorris.co.uk 

General Photography | Lost Films Part One

A short while ago I decided to catalogue all my cameras so that I could keep track should I ever decide to lift my ‘no lending’ rule. In doing this, not only was I surprised by the amount of film cameras that I had somehow acquired over the years I was also surprised to find how many had half used films in them.

Half used films would usually happen from when I would take the camera out for a specific event and then completely forget to take an adequate amount of photographs.

I found around 25 films in total and I thought that I could make it a regular feature. I find waiting for the photographs to come out one of the interesting aspects of film photography. So when it comes to handing in a film without even knowing whether anything has come out at all I find getting the result quite exciting. When it comes to actually getting these films processed I generally opt to get the film developed without getting any prints made. This is mainly because I haven’t a clue how many (if any) photographs are actually on the roll of film and if I were to pay to get prints as well, it would prove to be quite expensive in the end. This is especially true if the films only yield one or two shots.

For our first instalment I’m going to use what must be the most recent of films. This film was first started in Meopham a few weeks ago on some Kodak Everyday ISO 200 35mm film (I seem to have a surplus of ISO 200 film at the moment). The photographs aren’t all from the same day, this is mainly due to what I said earlier, I take along a thirty-six exposure film and manage to take only ten shots. This leads to a variety of photographs when it finally gets processed. The photographs were taken on a Belomo Villia; a simple 35mm point and shoot camera. I received this camera as a gift some time ago and I’ve not used it as much as I should have.

I have just noticed whilst scanning the film, that the name of the film changes halfway through. It goes from Kodak Everyday ISO 200 to Jessops Diamond film.

So hopefully this can be the start of a new series of blog post showing photos from moments past and forgotten. It should provide a wealth of material as I have quite a few rolls still to get processed.