Out with the Old, In with the New

I started this blog over 2 years ago as part of my Extended Diploma. As part of the course I had to create a photography blog to improve my digital presence and my writing as I had to write about the photos I had posted. Now though, I am doing an Foundation Degree course and once again I've been told that I must create a blog to increase my digital presence and documenting the process. Because of this reason I will no longer be updating this blog as I will soon be starting a new blog which can be found here; http://nickdunnphotography.blogspot.co.uk and admittedly after 2 years my posting has become a bit erratic and my writing has became a bit unenthusiastic, so a fresh start might be just what I need. Thanks for all your support and please follow my new blog.

Amazing Grace

Hey everyone! I just realised it's been ages since I last posted so I thought I would share with you my 3 favourite photos from, so far, my favourite photo-shoot of 2015 with the lovely Grace. Grace is a friend's sister who I thought was pretty so I asked if she'd like to try modelling and she said yes, and the rest as they say is history. Enjoy.

Urban Jodie

Here's a handful of my favourite photos from my 3rd shoot with Jodie and my last shoot of 2014. I rather enjoy this location; wedged between a run down shopping centre, a high street and a motorway; I think it would be an excellent location for a gritty punk band shoot. I love shooting with Jodie and flashes and I can't wait to do a proper punk and beach shoot with her later in the year. But until then let me know what you think of our latest shoot.

Melissa's Day at the Seaside

I'm a bit late in posting this but this was one of my scouting and practice shoot for my Greek Mythology sea shoots for Aphrodite and Andromeda with Melissa bravely facing the wind, rain and waves to help me prepare for my final shoots. I have huge respect for this beautiful young woman and I have to admit that I really owe her one for this shoot which really helped my project, I got some great photos from the day and I really enjoyed it.  I can't wait to shoot her again and I would love some feedback on these images.

Jon Snow Cosplay Shoot

You may not know, but earlier this year I joined a small team of creative students and cosplayers aiming to create a cosplay calender for 2015. I signed on as a photographer and shot 4 different cosplay shoots to produce 4 Final Images for the calender. First, in the middle of summer, I shot Michael as Jon Snow from Game of Thrones, which produced an image which was used for December. Now that the calender has been on sale for several months now, I've been allowed to share some of the other images from the shoot and I'm really proud of some of them although my editing skills might not be up to scratch to turn the summer of Northern England into The Land Beyond The Wall of Westeros but regardless I like them. What do you guys think?

Foundation Degree: Digital Acquistions Project

Here are the 2 Final Images and my first ever video from my 2nd Unit of Coursework from my Foundation Degree. This unit was called Digital Acquisition and focused on Advertising and contained elements of Fashion, Editorial, Still Life and Videography.

The unit was split into 3 projects called Editorial Shoe, Upsize and Advertising.

For Editorial Shoe, we had to shoot a Still Life Shoe in the studio to be used as an Editorial image for a Advertisement. My idea was inspired by loads of photos I found during my research that show boots standing on leaves so I tried to create a Still Life version of this. For Upsize I had to shoot a Mid-Key Fashion image for John Lewis and enlargement an element of the photos. I combined this with a shoot I did with a Fashion shoot and enlarged the model's head as a "Think Big!" idea. The video was a collaboration with Amelia Read, in which we had to produce a 10-second video together advertising shoes with the subtitle; "Walk the Walk". Amelia was the Director and I was the Camera Operator, Lightening Assistant and Editor and I think we did a pretty good job together.

This was a very stressful unit which I didn't particularly enjoy, expect for a few parts like learning to shoot and edit short videos. I'm now planning a studio day before my college shuts and then a relaxing break over Christmas during which I will planning shoots and coming up with ideas for Spring and Summer 2014.

Amy's Studio Shoot

I love working with the gorgeous little Amy mainly because she's a beautiful little ball of fun and she usually dresses up. I've already shot her in Newcastle and as Raven from Teen Titans and Babydoll from Sucker Punch as well as many others. These are some of my favourite photos from our first studio shoot along with Ellen Hall Photography. These were loads of fun to shoot and I am really proud of the images we produced together and can't wait to work with Amy and Ellen again.