Moraira Storm 29.11.14

Last night there was a really cool storm off the Costa Blanca in Spain. It was a pretty awesome storm! so i decided to grab my my camera!

This is my first attempt at photographing a lightening storm...

   
     Lightening Penis =p

SUP project - Bray Lake

Over the Easter holidays i was able to visit Bray Lake, in-between Maidenhead and Windsor, and meet some paddlers. Some were beginners and some were in training for upcoming races. 

Here's a few of the images i took. They are un edited, i would just like to see what people think.

Ryan Adams - Sales Consultant for Doc UK 

 Louise Broda - Physiotherapist 

Simon Frost - Manager at Bray Lake Watersports 

Louise Beaupre - Sales Assistant at Cook

Stand Up Paddle Project

Continuing my project about the diversity of people who stand up paddle board, i've been sticking to the theme of posed portraits with people in their work/normal clothes.

A few new images pre edit…not finals but quick uploads to get the idea across…more to come!

George Simmonds from Oxford

Occupation - 

 Katie from Falmouth

Occupation - Nurse 

 Will Anido From Australia 

Occupation - ASI Stand Up Paddleboard Instructor

 Miriam Mortiz from Germany

Occupation - Chef

 Giles Kent from Falmouth

Occupation - Fireman

James from Helford

Occupation - Banker

Lisa from Manchester

Occupation - Fitness Instructor 

SUP Project

For my 3rd year Final Project i wanted to take a look at the growing popularity behind Stand Up Paddleboarding. In the last 4 or 5 years SUP has become more and more popular and its benefits have appealed to a wide variety of people who have since the taken the sport up for whatever reason they have, be it socially, fitness, distance, exploration, surf etc.

In order to show the wide variety of people who paddle board i am constructing a portfolio of people who have a passion for SUP and i am photographing them in their work/casual clothes.

My First shoot for this project was Giles Kent, a Falmouth Firefighter and Paddleboarder at club WeSUP. For this shoot I equipped myself with two 7Ds, a 17-85mm, 50mm, 70-300mm, 18-55mm and a 35mm along with a Metz flash gun and a Canon Flash gun.

My only technical difficulty was the light. First light was at 6:58am and sunrise at 7:30am and i was there at 7. I started of with a flash to bring in some light but the flash kept bringing out the reflector strip in Giles's uniform and ruining the photos. So i had to lose the flash and do my best to use the natural light and turn up my ISO.

Another difficulty was that because of the amount of equipment i had with absolutely no waterproof covers for anything, i was unable to take a board out myself and photograph him offshore as i originally planned. He has agreed to do this again if needed be so i could also further prepare.

Here are a few unedited images straight from the camera to get started on…

Upstate New York, S-Curves St Lawrence River

Well it's been a while since i've been on here, been slacking a bit. Finally found the motivation yesterday to go out and photograph a hawk i keep seeing when i paddleboard around here! I still need to find out what species it is, also a few snaps of the beautiful scenery surrounding me...

and a few photos of the scenery around me....

SUP + Jeep + Gorgeous Location = A Happy Rémy =]

24 Hour Project in London, March 2013

From the 11th-14th March i was in London with my course visiting exhibitions, listening to speeches by famous photographers and also conducting my 24hr project. The title for the brief was "The City that never Sleeps". After a while of thinking about ideas i decided to do something on the rush of people in London and was drawn towards cyclists who ride fixed gear and single speed bikes and also Couriers who ride bikes.

I took a range of photos from the enthusiasts who sell the bikes to the people who ride them like absolute mad men!

Here are a few of my images

City Sprint Courier Portrait

City Sprint Courier consulting his map before his journey

Harry from Brick Lane Bike Shop, London

A broken wheel brought in by a courier for repair after he was hit by a car in Brick Lane Bike Shop, London

Sam from Bike Republic, Shoreditch, London

Courier on Route to deliver a package

Courier on Route to deliver a package

Rex Features Internship. Weeks 1-3

Rex Features Internship

On the 12th of November i started my first day of interning at Rex Features in London. I have a 6 week placement of working 9-5, monday to friday in the Rex Features office based between Farringdon and Holborn.

Week 1

Tuesday - The first day we met Rick who introduced us to most of the team and gave us tutorials on how to use lightbox, the software they use for key wording and organising images they receive. I had an email address made for myself which would receive stacks of photos which would need to be key worded and sorted out and then send them on to the next stage. After a few hours of that, we were then lead down to the basement by ex falmouth student, Emily, who showed us the other thing we would be doing for a few hours everyday. The task was to down size the files of alphabetically arranged transparencies that filled the basement. I was informed that it has been going on for close to a year now and they are only half way through the letter B. This was my favourite part of the job, being able to see old photos of actors and rockstars that haven't been seen by others.

Wednesday - We're told that even morning when we come in we will have emails with stacks of photos for us to run through in Lightbox, which took us up to around 12 or 1 o'clock. Then after lunch we spent the rest of the day in basement de-duplicating transparencies.

Thursday - After finishing the morning task i was given the job of scanning newspaper tear outs. They are usually pages with photos of celebrities which Rex have been sent in by photographers and then bought by the newspapers. So the reason for scanning these 'tear sheets' is for referencing and invoicing. Every page i scan has code on it which when im putting it into lightbox it saves it under the photographers name who took it. When they were all done it was time for lunch and then down in the basement to de-dupe.

Friday - Completed my morning stacks, scanned a pile of tear sheets and then de-duped.


Week 2

It gets a little repetitive here.

Monday -- Completed morning stacks, scanned tear sheets and a few magazines and then de-duped.

Tuesday - Completed morning stacks, scanned tear sheets and magazines and then de-duped

Wednesday - After we completed out morning stacks we were introduced to something else we had to do. we would download DVD's with still images from movies into Lightbox and then use a tool called Sub head Magic to link up actors names to faces, add details of the movie and then register it. After we went to the basement and de-duped.

Thursday - It was really quiet as it was thanksgiving, so no morning stacks. I started the day by downloading and key wording film stills, scanning a small amount of tear sheets and then de-duping.

Friday - Still no more stack sheets as it's Black Friday in America. So scanned the tear sheets that were already at my desk, worked on the film stills and then de-duped


Week 3

Monday - Back to normal now, a few stack sheets in an email, so worked on them until about 12, scanned some tear sheets and then de-duped

Tuesday - More stack sheets, this time all of photos of bands and music festivals for Metal Hammer Magazine, which i was quite happy to as i was at most of those concerts that were on my screen. Scanned some tear sheets then de-duped.

Wednesday - Stack sheets for Metal Hammer again, tear shett scanning then de-duping.

Thursday - Completed morning stacks, scanned tear sheets and a few magazines and then de-duped.

Friday - Completed morning stacks, scanned tear sheets and a few magazines and de-duped