Sleepy Robot Photography
On Thursday 6th April Tenby Camera Club welcomed new speakers ‘Sleepy Robot Photography’. Steve Milton and his partner Jen Williams gave members a new and interesting concept into fine art photography. Both Steve and Jen travelled from Llanelli to give their talk and presentation of their work.
As they both explained they try to create images that bend reality, push the photographer’s imagination and take the normal portrait and make it into something special. Steve’s early introduction to photography was with his father taking landscapes and macrophotography using film with his dad’s Olympus Om10 and a Brownie Box camera.
Steve told members he got fed up with this style of photography. Ten years ago he met Jen and they set up‘Sleepy Robot Photography’. Both Steve and Jen are photographers and artists at heart, and find inspiration in all different types of mediums. To begin their talk they gave members three things that were important to them both 1. Up cycling 2. No man is an island and 3. Do not be afraid to ask. Using these we were introduced into Sleepy Robot Photography where they like to experiment with different materials and techniques to achieve images that can be real and dream like, as well as surreal and bizarre. Before the refreshment break we were introduced to the series of images called Mr and Mrs Dai Brown, with Steve being Dai Brown and Jen Mrs Brown. This concept was to work as a couple and go out and shoot various scenes and objects but they found that the characters were developing in a relationship and soon developed into a series of images.
Following the break Steve and Jen showed us work by Camilla d’Errico, Jack Vettriano and Kirsty Mitchell to name a few, which has inspired their own images. They then gave us a talk on photoshopping, not particularly liking it but needs must said Steve.
The evening concluded with a video showing editing and creating a set for a shoot. Several questions were asked of them both before Chairman David Lewis gave a vote of thanks for an entertaining and different concept of photography. Much of their work can be seen on www.sleepyrobotphotography.co.uk
As they both explained they try to create images that bend reality, push the photographer’s imagination and take the normal portrait and make it into something special. Steve’s early introduction to photography was with his father taking landscapes and macrophotography using film with his dad’s Olympus Om10 and a Brownie Box camera.
Steve told members he got fed up with this style of photography. Ten years ago he met Jen and they set up‘Sleepy Robot Photography’. Both Steve and Jen are photographers and artists at heart, and find inspiration in all different types of mediums. To begin their talk they gave members three things that were important to them both 1. Up cycling 2. No man is an island and 3. Do not be afraid to ask. Using these we were introduced into Sleepy Robot Photography where they like to experiment with different materials and techniques to achieve images that can be real and dream like, as well as surreal and bizarre. Before the refreshment break we were introduced to the series of images called Mr and Mrs Dai Brown, with Steve being Dai Brown and Jen Mrs Brown. This concept was to work as a couple and go out and shoot various scenes and objects but they found that the characters were developing in a relationship and soon developed into a series of images.
Following the break Steve and Jen showed us work by Camilla d’Errico, Jack Vettriano and Kirsty Mitchell to name a few, which has inspired their own images. They then gave us a talk on photoshopping, not particularly liking it but needs must said Steve.
The evening concluded with a video showing editing and creating a set for a shoot. Several questions were asked of them both before Chairman David Lewis gave a vote of thanks for an entertaining and different concept of photography. Much of their work can be seen on www.sleepyrobotphotography.co.uk