Not so long ago I was invited to go to Beach Break Live as a photographer by the marketing department of Visit Wales. Now I don't mean to sound overly grateful, but I will say I got to go to a music festival, that was right on a beach, that was full of ready to party, partially naked 20ish students...sometimes life is very hard.
Not many of the 400ish pictures ended up on the blog for Visit Wales, but they are supposed to have a flickr and facebook, so there could well be more on there...
It was an interesting job as I we (me and the writer) decided we didn't want to try and present it in a "Hey, Beach Break Live is the best thing to happen in Wales ever!" way, but more just to document our time at the festival. So I give you my pics...
This little gem isn't on the blog post, but I filmed it and feel the need to share it!
I did media studies in college, which involved, well for starters very little graphic design, a lot of video work. Filming and editing (both video and sound pieces) were a main part of it and I have been following the growing trend of music/promo videos being shot on Digital SLR's.
Not heard about it? Google Canon 7D, check the specs, you can shoot full 1080p HD on a DSLR, it's mind blowing! Get on youtube, search Canon 5d test, and you will see some outstanding footage tests.
The point, I used to do a lot of video editing and I always found it strangely calming, so I decided to try and join the cult of film making on DSLR's. I'm hamming it up a little here, I don't have the greatest camera, but as the video I was shooting was only for the web, so the concerns about HD were washed away pretty quick (however there is an adventure into this to follow).
I was happy that the exposure plate on my bridge camera would be more than adequate a youtube vid, so combine so old skills with some new ones and I got to this...
I had always planned to shoot this on DV or some form of video, I think it is safe to say, I may never go back to video ever again.
My name is Michael Partridge, I'm a graphic designer and hobbie photographer from Cardiff, Wales, UK.
I am proud to say I have an MA in Graphic Communication from the University of Glamorgan.
Want to know more? My email is:
mrp2049 at hotmail dot com
I love universal production! If it looks good at 300dpi CMYK from the finest printers, it should look good coming out of a photocopier too! This really matters to me!
I can happily say I have produced work for these amazing people:
Technics/DMC
Fluidity Freerunning
South Wales Parkour
Visit Wales
Juliet Echo
The Croft
Mike Borgia
They Walk Among Us
Peachfuzz
Zenyth
TJ's Newport
Clwb Ifor Bach
Cardiff Barfly
Engineering Consent PR
Skwad HQ
Whistling Biscuits
Circa Regna tonat
End of the Line Tattoo Studio
Captain Accident
Canton Space Project
Moley.tv
And many more...
Computer Arts Homepage - Awesome magazine, website is a great source for tutorials and general great ideas. Design Forums - Nice friendly place to talk about design work. Misprinted Type - Awesome designer with some really special brushes, fonts etc. free to download. Adobe Kuler - Need help with a colour scheme? Or even ideas for a colour palette? GO THERE. Blurb - Make your own books. Emptees - T-shirt design site.
Awesome peoples
Mission Photographic - Amazing photographer, one of the easiest guys on the planet to work with. Recycled with Love - Old friend of mine, she makes cool bags and jewelry. Graham Sanders - awesome designer, talks alot of nonsense on twitter, nice guy. The Meek Shall - Awesome Illustrator, I was in uni with him. Great guy too. Wotto - Amazing illustrator, constantly blows my mind! Greg Abbot - Another mind blowing illustrator! Ken Reynolds - All rounder, nice guy too! Worth a click just to see "My life as a cartoon".
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