The Photo Guide, final year project

May 22nd, 2009

Front end, Photography, University, Web development, Wordpress, iPhone

thephotoguide-screenshot

The Photo Guide is my final year project; a community driven, portable photography guide for digital SLR camera users. I was fully responsible for everything from the design, time management, content, frontend (html, css, javascript) and backend (php). It was in development for around 3 months and accompanied by a 12000 word dissertation.

The site makes use of a wide variety of open source technologies, including: Wordpress, JQuery, Google Maps API, TinyMCE, Gravatar and Smart image resizer. I also created a mobile version of the site: Read the rest of this entry »

Poverty of the Mind

May 14th, 2009

Awards, Front end, Javascript, Photography, University, Web development

poverty-of-the-mind

Using a series of five images for a online social experiment titled ‘Poverty of the Mind’ to raise awareness and offer support to people with mind poverty. The images use a minimal and saturated style manipulated to look like scenes from an office workers bad day. The style is consistent throughout the series. The expressions and negative body language of the main subject helps to show his state of mind and feelings about his current work situation. Read the rest of this entry »

Portal – air app using web services

April 4th, 2009

Flash, University

This is a demo of my application built for a project at University in around 2 weeks while working on several different projects. The brief was to create a Flash app that utilized a variety of web services.

My idea was to create a Portal to the web from the desktop, one place to check several different services. You may to view the video with the volume off! ;) Read the rest of this entry »

asp.Net theatre booking & admin system

March 29th, 2009

Front end, University, Web development

adam-foster-web

A web development project built using asp.NET. The brief was to create a fully functioning, database driven ticket booking service for a made up theatre company. Detailing all shows, venues, cast, productions and performances, the ability for customers to register then book tickets and for admin to add/maintain all content.

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My 1st Photography Studio Experience

February 11th, 2009

Photography, University

photography studio experience + behind the scenes photo

Yesterday I got lucky and had the chance use a photography studio used by my sisters college, we had a few hours to take some photo’s of a new dress she had made.

I had never been in a studio before and was clueless on how to operate four softboxes and no idea of what settings to use on my camera.

So I pretty much just jumped in and started trying some settings. I set my Canon to full manual, connected the slave softbox and took a few test shots, I found a shutter speed of around 1/125 and F16 worked best allowing me to hand hold and keep the light under control. I love the noise of the combination of all the flashes and the light they produced was insane. It was a fun and great learning experience, now I really want a studio of my own!

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My second year visual design work

August 13th, 2008

Photography, University

So I created this blog during my placement year – after I had finished my second year. I just wanted to share my favourite piece of work from that year:

drug driven suicide - poster campaign (hdr)

A poster to be used for a drug awareness campaign titled ‘Worried about Someone’? Designed to be used by the independent drug awareness and advice service FRANK.

The poster uses dark and abstract imagery manipulated to look like a disturbing scene of a drug user clearly distressed/confused and
in need of help. An unreal yet serious eye catching appeal is used in a bold attempt to get friends of, or drug users themselves to contact FRANK.

I tried to use shocking and serious content to show the consequences and seriousness of drug use, past campaigns from FRANK I
found where either too comical or too information rich. I have kept the posters simple but with a clear message that hopefully friends
of drug users will pick and act upon. Read the rest of this entry »