For those of you who have been fortunate enough to NOT be around when I submitted images to the Royal Photographic Society, in an attempt to achieve my Associateship – Congratulations…. but it all ends here…..
After months of work, agony, and me constantly wittering on to all my ‘friends’, I want to say thank you to all of them. For lingering and looking, for the critique, for the support, and to certain individuals who not only came to Nottingham and London for RPS advisory days, but who also came to Bath with me TWICE…. once to drop the portfolio off (thanks Vicky), and once for the final Assessment (thank you Mike and George)…
Many thanks also to the Lincolnshire Image Makers Group, who were so supportive, and nagged me constantly to get the job done.
All the images can be found on my website (links below), and were based on multiple exposure photography – with some having as many as 40 pictures to make up one shot.
When I started to think about what I’d done, and looked back on work I had produced over the last five years or so, I realised that I had been making multi exposure images for all of that time. It was just that I had been going about it in a different way. The images were made by me moving forward, or backwards in between shots, and I had also been combining them in camera – as the Canon DX allowed up to 9 shots at a time. Sometimes I’d combined them in photoshop, but not in the way I do now.
So what I feel, is that I’ve developed something over a long period of time – but it was after I saw some images online by another photographer that my interest was piqued even more.
Between November of last year, and April of 2018, I developed, refined and changed my technique, and before I knew it, I was producing images that I was really happy with.
I chatted to the RPS at the start of the summer, and they advised that I would be presenting images in their ‘fine art’ category – and that they liked the work and wanted to see more.
You need 15 images for Associateship, together with a statement of intent – and for an advisory day, they recommend that you bring your basic 15 with 5 others as ‘spares’. So in early July, I set off for London with 20 printed, mounted images – the RPS recommended I present the panel at an assessment day with no changes – they liked the small image, the style, and the choice of subjects.
My friend Vicky and I went to Bath towards the end of August, and dropped the panel off for Assessment in October.
Then in mid-October myself and two friends headed for Bath – where the panel was passed, and retained by the RPS as an example of what is required in an Associateship panel. Drunk on success, and champagne we returned to Lincolnshire and I was overwhelmed.
So, the images themselves. They are mostly of Lincolnshire, and the coast, and the structures – there are trees, and fountains, and landscape. All together in the same multi-exposure style.
This isn’t one of my final panel, but a series of images I took on the way home from Bath after the assessment day. We stopped at Westonbirt Arboretum, and this comprises 15 images shot of the fantastic Autumn colour there.
You can find my full panel, and statement of intent by CLICKING THIS LINK
The Slideshow is available by CLICKING HERE
All the images were taken with a Fuji X-T2 camera, and their excellent 16-55 2.8 lens. The large format RAW files were perfect for this kind of work, and allowed me to crop in, to make the images exactly how I wanted them to be. The lightweight camera meant that I had it with me most of the time, and so was able to get the shots I wanted. I can also recommend their 23mm f2 lens, for its discrete size and superb image quality. I don’t think I would have achieved this distinction without this camera…. Thanks Fuji…..
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