Studio Staged.

      For this short assignment we were given a lecture and was shown and given links from various artists to give us some inspiration into completing this task. This included the likes of Christopher Nunn, Alix Marie and Tom Hunter. After doing a bit of research into these artists, it gave me some inspiration into trying to take some photos around the house to use as a studio. As some of these photos were of an documentary type, I decided to go in that direction (even though the first photo was in the true sense staged).

      The first photo is of our cat Daisy. It was taken strait after the lecture we had. She likes to take comfort in articles of clothing that we have been wearing and in this case she decided to settle down on my dressing gown. I took this photo by  calling her name and as soon as she looked up I shot this picture. I must admit that I am quite lucky with our cat as she is now used to me taking photographs of her and now she is used to me pointing a camera in her face and at the most part just carries on with her life as normal (apart from this photograph). The other two that I have included in this photoshoot are of my son and daughter doing their normal activity during this time of lockdown.

      The first photo is of my son. At the time he was doing some live commentary onstream of people playing some video games. I tried just to use the light that he uses when he vlogs to give the photograph some character. It was a capture of a moment of time and encapsulates the event that he was hosting.

      The last photograph is of my daughter looking into her phone on her bed. She is the messiest of us all and does not like a cover on her eiderdown or her mattress (as I put on new dressing on numerous occasions only for her to rip them all off again). Again, I just caught her in her doing the things she does normally as I thought I would make a nice picture.

      Overall I quite liked doing this task. The interpretation of what makes a studio is very broad so I could just take what was going on around me. This gave me the flexibility to capture what was going on around me and gave me a huge range on what I could do.