As well as working on my assignments I have been doing work with the North Wales Film and Photography Collective. We have recently covered the Focus Festival, which is a local music festival and business conference run over three days in Wrexham with as variety of local and international bands.
My job was as a photographer for the events at Central Station on Friday evening and the local museum on Saturday afternoon.
It was a very professional atmosphere and we required photo passes and were only allowed to photograph the first three numbers of the headline act. I feel that this has given me more of an experience with working in the field and outside of the studio. I am very interested in gig photography and so this has helped me gain an idea of how the whole thing works and also made me more employable in the future due to not only having more familiarity with it but having examples of work to show in the area.
I have worked with the Collective before also, photographing the Wrexham Christmas Lights Switch On, which again is obviously a professional event as it involved celebrities as well as the local pantomime cast. It was run by the local counsel who then used some of the images, so obviously it was important to make them as document friendly as possible. This also gave me a great feeling of what it was like to work along side clients and in a work environment for my future career possibilities.
On top of work with the Collective, I have also shot images for the Glyndwr University Athletics Union Ball, I was asked to focus mainly on candid shots but as well as this, to take some photos as awards were being presented. This was something I found very fun and it gave me more practice in event photography and working with candids.
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