Tattoo Studio

Well I'm done and dusted with the independent blog for now. I enjoyed this project and feel I have learnt quite a lot from it. I have always enjoyed projects involving people and this project was very different to the Irish one where I took the time to get to know my subjects first. Just goes to show that both methods can be used: to photograph relative strangers and also get to know your subject's personality before photographing them. I was pleased with the final outcome of the project and felt that I had pretty much achieved what I intended to.

My next project will be about the Irish again though I am not sure what form it will take. I will take my experiences from this project forward in order to apply them to future projects: experiences such as working in a more controlled environment for one, challenging myself more with the subject matter for another and not being phased by potential problems that might be encountered in a project. Having encountered and overcome all these issues, I feel confident that I will be able to bring this learnt experience to my next project in order to create an interesting and unique piece of work.

Tattoo Studio

Here are the photos for the last session. Considering I hadn't expected to get so many subjects, I think they came out quite well.

I created a PDF file and sent it off to Blurb. I only used them as I had a free voucher from the Street Photography Project to use - I never trust a company that has no contact number if there are any problems. Ebay is another such company. After double and triple checking everything... twice I felt confident it was all ok. I had a few problems with sending off the PDF using their template as for some reason it wouldn't accept it, so eventually after constantly trying, I ending up emailing them. I received no reply even though they promised to respond within 3 hours. I didn't want to risk not getting the book back in time so ended up downloading the templates again and re-importing the images and text. What a pain! 

Anyway, got the book back a few days ago and apart from one or two images which I will have to mess around with again before producing a paperback version of the book for the tattoo studio, it looks pretty good. I hope that Louis, Beany and Gary at the studio and all those who participated will like it. I am glad that I chose black and white format as I reckon that it works really well. Oh well, back to the grindstone...