Rebecca Cooper

photography part-time student

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Finally a response. I’m hoping she does reply but I will contact other photographers and contact her again. Persistence is the key.

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Picture perfect: How helpful is social media for our mental health?

According to new research beautiful images posted on Instagram may actually reveal if someone is struggling with depression. But how helpful

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14 Tips for Making a Photography Portfolio in 2020

A professional photography portfolio is crucial to showcase your work and create interest in your art. We give you some great tips for getting started.

“Just to recap, the important thing is that you need a photography portfolio that addresses its purpose. If you are bringing more clients, share your best work on social media. For a job opportunity, find some time to create a small and concise website. It can just have one page, so you don’t need to go all out. If you are printing your portfolio, concentrate on how the images work together. Are they showing a range of your work or 15 images from a few different series that you are working on? Does the portfolio flow, or does the reader have to flip between portrait and landscape?” Here i have come across a guideline along with Ochis to summarise what i need to think about when making a portfolio. I will make a plan list of what i want to include and show and use my list to help construct and finalise what i want to include and show to my viewers.

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1,377 Followers, 2,156 Following, 1,333 Posts - See Instagram photos and videos from Emily Macinnes | Photographer (@emily_macinnes)

Here is Emily Macinnes portfolio on instagram. Having a website easily helps you to link to popular social media platforms that help raise your portfolio to other viewers and you can like she has below add your website link onto your instagram. Instagram is a popular app where people share photos instantly and it has become a huge platform for photography good the bad and the ugly but as a photographer i think it is important to have a website page on instagram to capture every audience plus its free!
“Emily Macinnes | Photographer Documentary Photographer & Filmmaker Advocate for Solution-Based Journalism Glasgow, Scotland Member of @womenphotograph ⠀ www.emilymacinnes.com”

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PORTFOLIO - Emily Macinnes // Documentary Photographer

Documentary Photography Portfolio // Emily Macinnes // Scottish Documentary Photographer and Filmmaker // Glasgow, Scotland

“Emily Macinnes (b. 1989) is a Scottish documentary photographer currently based in Glasgow. In 2012 she gained a BA Honours in Photography from Nottingham Trent University and later studied Photojournalism at the Danish School of Media and Journalism (DMJX). Emily has worked with various international NGO’s documenting local and global issues as well as more intimate stories of struggles faced closer to home. What unites her work is a common interest in people’s stories and a desire to creatively communicate the individual and emotional aspect of the issues she documents.”
What i have noticed with this portfolio is her website has links to each project and quite few photographs for each. Its only to the bar right at the end it has information about her and her photography. It’s difficult to look at website portfolios to making one physically however it is guiding me on how i’d like to construct mine and how i would have my website. She also had instagram and facebook links which i would possibly need to consider as social media is high platform for photographer now.

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Final CV finally!!!

Rebecca Cooper

[email protected] 07469799924

Personal Profile:

A bubbly and friendly person who enjoys taking on new challenges and getting to know and understand people. Passionate with social documentary photography and challenging a different view on family portrait photography and looking to pursue a career in documentary photography. Hold full driving licence.

Photography Skills:

• Intermediate processing skills in black and white, colour, salt and cyanotype printing.

• Basic /intermediate editing skills in Photoshop and Lightroom.

• Technical skills learnt with medium format including Hasselblad, large format.

• Intermediate skills in Digital Canon 6d and film Pentax, Hasselblad.

• Advance knowledge of Word and Excel

Education:

University of Westminster BA (Hons) Degree Photography 2017-2021:

During my degree I have learnt several new techniques and concepts in photography including modules in:

• Vision and technology

• Photography from the cold war to present

• The photographic eye

• The constructed photograph

• Advance research methods

• Professional Futures and Practice

Harrow Weald College A Level Photography and Art & Design 2003-2005:

Here I first gained knowledge of my passion and ideas on photography:

• Standard film processing and printing of black white film skills learnt.

• Art work practice in painting, pottery and wood, IT design and editing processes.

GCSE Haydon School 1998-2003:

• 8 GSCEs grades between A-C including Art, English and maths.

Employment History:

The Practise Group Booking Co-Ordinator 2018- Present:

• Attention to detail when booking referrals into clinics and hospitals.

• Excellent customer skills when making contact with GP surgeries, hospitals and also assisting and advising patients while advising patient confidentiality.

The Young Ones Ltd Nursery Lunchtime assistant 2017-2018:

• Good organisation in looking after and maintaining the cleanliness of the nursery.

• Built a rapport with helping and assisting the children of daily activities including support during meal times.

Deep Contractors Construction Office Secretary 2016-2017:

• Processing data for the company.

• Answering and dealing with telephone queries.

• Assisting Managing Director.

• Processing new job starters and ordering materials for the company’s many sites.

• Working with excel and Microsoft including emailing clients on behalf of business manager.

Hennessy Pub Bar Maid 2013-2016:

• Customer service skills working in a very busy environment with people of different ages.

• General duties behind the bar and representing the company.

References available on request

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Portfolio Research

Looking through my existing portfolio i have realised i have some work to do with regards to layout, size, context, what i'm trying to show,who the viewer is, where i want my portfolio to take me, how i will display my work and how many images i would use. Its really given me an insight to how i havent constructed my portfolio and where i want it to take me. Im going to look at other documentary photographers and how they display their work. I know they are online but i can learn from their layouts and how they showcase their work.

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Here is where i started photography as a business for myself, mainly taking weddings and child portraits. This is where i found i wanted to gain more experience and learn more about photography. I wasn't enjoying the posed portraits or wedding shots but i taking the sneak peek shots capturing moments and memories that go amiss. 

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Portfolio research

Some more photographs i took on my film Pentax camera when i was at college. I adore black and white photography just because i feel it gives this depth to the photos. These images are 6x4 so slightly smaller im not sure how i could use them in my portfolio if im printing 10x8 for example, thinking about size of the photographs being same for a coherent portfolio.

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Portfolio Research:

Here is my my work taken from college, my black and white prints. Looking through my portfolio and what i can use and how it would work or fit into my portfolio how it will show off my skills.  

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Is Social Media Destroying Photography?

Some say that social media is destroying photography as we know it. You no longer need to be a...

“In 2011 alone, there were more than 400 billion photographs taken. This number is expected to reach around 1.2 trillion pictures this year. That is approximately 137 million pictures taken every hour.” 

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The Impact of Social Media on Photography - SHOOTFACTORY

Social media is, by definition, a quick and fairly passive tool to reach people, sometimes by the thousands or millions. That massive reach has, unsurprisingly, dramatically changed the typical means of delivering photography to the public and, with it, the revenue streams that photographers count on to make a living.

“Advocates say that impactful photos can now reach a larger, less exclusive audience thanks to social media. To a great extent, that is true; one no longer needs money for gallery admissions or to live in cities where such exhibits are held. But the decline of these display methods also excludes the less-wired viewing public. Social media photography is simply exchanging one marginalised audience for another.”

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Photography and social media: Three perspectives

Mark Power, Maisie Cousins and Adam Ferguson shed light on their unique approaches to social media

“Curating social media is a highly personal process, offering a space for photographers to discover and develop their own visual voice. From showcasing new work to reviving photographs from one’s archive, these platforms provide a place for creative experimentation.”

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Photography and Mental Illness — Urban Photography | Street Photography | London

Photography and mental illness. A subject I feel particularly interested in since photography has helped me and others I know feel better through its meditative process.

“Photography is a meditative process similar to cookery, carving wood or painting. You immerse yourself into something, you zone in and focus on it, shutting down the outside world for a bit, turning that wild angry river of thoughts into a mirror-like lake (my way of describing meditation).”

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Danyelle Rolla, Social Documentary Photographer, Boston Lincolnshire - Danyelle Rolla Photographer Liverpool england UK - Mental Health and Photography

Social Documentary Photographer Liverpool UK

Research for my ideas for my dissertation

“It is these pressure from social media and the obsession for perfection that affect many of us today. Although there is one obvious cultural shift from the 1950’s to now. Nowadays, It is women who are predominately driving this. “