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