Clear out!

Well it’s been a long time since I wrote here so I thought that it was time that I updated!

So, after the catastrophe that was my final year at Uni I withdrew merely weeks from the end. Do I regret it? Maybe a tiny bit… but at the end of the day, I’ve had a lot go on which meant I couldn’t concentrate, and my attention span is already short enough.

My final mark wouldn’t of been anything to be proud of either. As a result of this, I’m happy to say that I will be going back to University in September to repeat my 3rd year. Not at Sunderland though, oh no, there’s too many distractions and bad memories surrounding this place that I think would haunt me; leading to me doing the exact same thing again in a years time.

I don’t want that, I want a degree to be proud of, and I want to be in a situation to where I can get on with it.

My choices are Wolverhampton and Canterbury Christ Church; I’ve already had my interview for CCCU, and it went okay, I find out if I get in next week. My interview for Wolves is not until August 21st, but to be honest, if I get into CCCU, then I may not even bother with Wolves. The campus at Broadstairs is awesome and it’s such a lovely little town on the coast. Lots to photograph, lots to inspire, a couple of pubs, but other than that, not a whole lot to do. No distractions.

I think the stance I’m going to take this year is portraits and fashion. I’ve been looking at Dragan’s portraits and I’d loveLOVE to do something similar.

Other than that, I’m due to get a new lens sometime in the next few weeks seeing as I’m currently glassless… I’m torn between the Sigma 18 – 50mm f2.8, Tamron 17 – 50mm f2.8, and Sigma 24 – 70 f2.8. I’m worried about the reports of Sigma’s QC being bad, and having to sift through any amounts of lenses to find one that’s sharp, but saying that, my old 17 – 70 f2.8-4 was as sharp as anything… so what do you do in a situation like this?

the 24 – 70 is the perfect focal range for me, but it’s a huge lens, I like how wide the 18 – 50 and the 17 – 50 are, but think 50mm is too short, the 28 – 75 has length but 28 probably won’t be wide enough. What to do?

Anyway if anyone wants to work with me from August onwards give me an e-mail at crphotography@live.co.uk and we’ll sort something out!

One last thing, I recently cleared by flickr out, take a look at; http://www.flickr.com/photos/chrisr87/