The Strange New Redhead

[stargirlphotography]

So I figured I would make some attempt to introduce myself.

*waves* I'm Kat Roberts aka Stargirlphotography

I'm that strange new redhead Brian's been bringing along for a few weeks - I finally joined the darkside! ahem I mean ADAPS

You can find my work at:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Stargirlp ... 8936647667
http://stargirlphotography.deviantart.com/gallery
http://www.flickr.com/photos/stargirlphotography

I do have my own website but it's via carbonmade and is horribly in need of updating

Here's some images for now anyways:










Hope you like! x

[John]

Cool. Some great photography there and a welcome addition to the variety of styles within ADAPS!

Welcome aboard!

[Theo Dibbits]

Kat

Welcome to the club.
You have some great & different images on your website.

Of the above ones number 3 could be straight of an album cover of a 1960's flower power album. Wonderful.
Maybe they can bring back some of the music. (just showing my age )

I would love to see something like the gasmask girl one in a competition. That would give the judge something to chew on.

Theo

[Paul Jones]

Hello!

[paulinefisher]

Hi Kat and welcome to the forum.
I love the variety in your images, you are obviously multi talented; MUA, hair,Photography and PP. I have had a quick look on deviantart and my faves are the Wuthering Heights, Gentleman of fine taste and Ghost of the mills sets.

Pauline

[keith richardson]

Hi Kat ,
Welcome to the forum and the club.
Had a look at yout Deviantart portfolio, I am really impressed.
(Witches of the west, gasmask girl and alice in wonderland in particular).

Looking forward to seeing some more.

keith

[Tracey McGovern]

Hi Kat

Welcome to the club and the forum. I've had a look at your links and I like your work, you said in one of your web pages that you wanted to use horror in your photography by using "light and shadows, unseen attackers, mystery, motion, phobias, childhood nightmares etc" using phsycological horror rather than guts and gore and that you wanted to give viewers a sense of disquiet and intreague. Well - after seeing your images, you certainly achieved that with me, I found them all fascinating and you have definitely got a unique style to your photography. I particularly liked the "Ghost of the Mills" series.

Great work, keep it up and we hope to see more of your work in the future.

Best Wishes
Tracey

[stargirlphotography]

hey I shall reply and thank you all tomorrow when I have time but for now as promised to tracey

Here is a link to my fmp video of my horror work:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T44Rl1jiD-s

must be watched with the sound on and preferably in a dark room alll aloneeee for best effect *evil chuckle* ahem *whistles innocently*

[John]

Very interesting piece of work, many thanks for the link.

[stargirlphotography]

ok so I'm not about to pass out and fall asleep so I should be about coherent enough to reply to you all now =D

Thankyou so much! I'm glad you liked the photos I posted!

And Tracey - I chose to focus on what I ended up terming 'hitchcock horror' rather than gore and blood purely because I felt that nowadays blood and gore just isn't that scary anymore - it doesn't scare, it just repulses and turns people away. The 'horror' that is more psychological and gets inside your head to freak you out I find the most intriguing and gives me the strongest visual pallette to work with. To have someone look at the photo and be left that little bit uneasy or have that shiver run down their spine, and to not be able to shake that feeling for a while after they stop looking at the image - THEN it's effective and done its job lol. Horror photography has a slightly different way of doing it but just like any photography the aim is often (at least in my case) to try and make an image that is unforgettable/iconic enough to imprint into someone's mind. Horror is a useful and interesting aspect of doing so.
(Hope that made enough sense! lol)

But I don't just do the scary stuff I promise lol though like Theo mentioned.... submitting horror work for a competition would be rather fun =D
Sadly I lost the original full file of that gasmask girl photo when my old external HD died - I lost everything I'd shot up to june/july 2009. ='(

[kevinlowe]

Great work, really love it. Not had time to perus at leisure yet, but I'm certainly looking forward to it.

And I completely agree with you about horror. I find the Japanese and Koreans know what they're doing when it comes to scaring people. I was scared more by half a minute of 'Audition' than the entire 90 minutes or so of the pointless Nightmare on Elm Street Remake...

I'll stop now, or I'll start ranting about remakes...

[keith richardson]

like Theo mentioned.... submitting horror work for a competition would be rather fun =D
='(

Strangely enough, not for the first time, I did actually have 'Horror/Nightmares' shortlisted as a possible theme for the current forum competition, but rejected it assuming that no one would have anything along those lines and the entry level would be very low, ( but it would have been interesting to see what everyone came up with ).
I opted for the safer option.. doh.

Keith.

PS. Although at the back of my mind I may have also been thinking that if I chose it, then I can't enter it ...

[Paul Jones]

I did actually have 'Horror/Nightmares' shortlisted as a possible theme for the current forum competition, but rejected it assuming that no one would have anything along those lines and the entry level would be very low....... I opted for the safer option.
Keith.

It might be good to throw in a few off the wall themes for the competitions to really challenge people.

[keith richardson]

It might be good to throw in a few off the wall themes for the competitions to really challenge people.

I tried that before Paul, I do recall one of my themes only attracting about 4 entries, which i think is still a record

I think when the forum comp is the first competitive step for newer members it is also a question of balance, between challenging people and keeping it accessible to all.

but wait till next time..

[-KT]

And here's me thinking the 'trees' is a challenge lolz =P